Dental problems can lead to heart problems

In general, the normal blood flow in occasionally from the mouth, nasopharynx area or other parts of the intrusion of a small amount of bacteria will be eliminated at any time. However, when low the body's defense capabilities, a variety of bacterial inflammation of the pharynx from the isthmus Dental Artcles or oral site of infection invade the blood, "settled" in the heart valve damage or abnormalities on the endocardium causing inflammation, which is called endocarditis as the "infective endocarditis."

Commonly referred to infective endocarditis is caused by bacteria, fungi, viruses, etc. caused by direct infection of the heart lining. The disease is divided into acute and subacute types, and the subacute type is more common. Acute infective endocarditis of the clinical manifestations of rapid onset, severe illness, sudden fever, chills and anemia, muscle and joint pain, weakness, sweating and other systemic sepsis performance in the short term there will be high tones the heart systolic murmur, and shortness of breath, other symptoms can not be supine.

Infective endocarditis is subacute onset is slow, irregular fever for more than a week, mostly in body temperature between 37 ~ 39 ℃, general malaise, fatigue, weight loss, loss of appetite, anemia, night sweats, shortness of breath, splenomegaly and so on.

The nature of the original heart murmur and loudness changes or new heart murmur, mucocutaneous petechiae more common in the eyelids conjunctival, oral mucosa, skin, hand, foot and back or leg skin and so on. This is due to infection toxin in the capillaries, so that fragility, bleeding or due to embolism caused.

In the diet, for obvious physical thin anemic patients, the need to increase attention to nutrition, eat more protein and rich in iron, vitamins of foods such as spinach, fried tofu, mushrooms, lean meat, chicken, ducks and so on. Heat and thirst, eat fresh fruit such as orange, lotus, water chestnut, pear, apricot, peach, pear, pineapple, etc., eat spicy spicy food such as onions, ginger and pepper.