YOGYAKARTA - Rematic heart disease can be experienced by a person due to heart valve damage caused by complications from rematic fever. If not immediately given the right treatment, heart disease with the risk of heart failure.
Rematic fever is an inflammatory type that occurs in several organs of the body, including the heart. If you don't get treatment immediately, the rematic fever can cause a narrowing or leakage in the heart valve. Thus, sufferers can have a heart heart disease.
Anyone can experience heart disease. However, this disease is more common to children aged 5'15 years.
Reporting from Healthy, arrheatic heart disease is caused by arrheatic fever that is not treated immediately. The rematic fever itself is caused by infection with the Streptococcus group A bacteria, or Streptocococcus pyogenes (demam sleptet). The infection triggers the body to generate an immune system response that attacks the heart organ.
There are several factors that are suspected of risking increasing the risk of a person suffering from heart disease, including:
As explained earlier, heart disease is a complication of therrheatic fever. Therefore, generally patients experience symptoms of mematic fever first, for example:
In addition, generally damage to heart valves can cause some symptoms, for example:
If you or your child experience symptoms above or if the symptoms experienced are severe, immediately go to the doctor. Medical assistance is also needed if other symptoms begin to appear, including:
Doctors will usually ask the patient's symptoms and medical history first, before a physical examination is carried out. Subsequently, doctors will apply further examinations to ensure a diagnosis, including:
Treatment of rematic heart disease must be adjusted to the symptoms, age, and health conditions of patients in general. This disease can be treated using the following method:
Doctors can prescription some medicines to treat symptoms of heart disease and prevent worsening patient condition. Types of drugs that can be given by doctors include:
Doctors will provide steroid recipes to relieve inflammation of the heart and other body parts.
Daily antibiotics are given in the long term to treat meretic fever in children and young adults. This is useful for preventing recurrence or complications of merematic fever.
Surgery can also be applied if heart disease is getting worse and not getting better with drugs. Surgery is given by repairing or replacing a damaged heart valve.
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