If you got Pulmonary Hypertension, how do you deal with it?!
Question:
If you got Pulmonary Hypertension, how do you deal with it?
Also if you happen to suffer from hemopthisis episodes (coughing blood) how do you avoid them? how do you calm them down?
Answers:
PULMONARY HYPERTENSION:
Treatment is determined by whether the PH is arterial, venous, hypoxic, thromboembolic, or miscellaneous. Since pulmonary venous hypertension is synonymous with congestive heart failure, the treatment is to optimize left ventricular function by the use of diuretics, beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, etc., or to repair/replace the mitral valve or aortic valve.
In PAH, lifestyle changes, digoxin, diuretics, oral anticoagulants, and oxygen therapy are considered conventional therapy, but have never been proven to be beneficial in a randomized, prospective manner.
High dose calcium channel blockers are useful in only 5% of IPAH patients who are vasoreactive by Swan-Ganz catheter. Unfortunately, calcium channel blockers have been largely misused, being prescribed to many patients with non-vasoreactive PAH, leading to excess morbidity and mortality.
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prevention of hemopthysis can only happen once you determine what triggers your attacks. once you do this you must avoid these situations at all costs. medication prescribed for PH should help quell these attacks as well. mostly avoid the obvious, running or anythign that will make you out of breath, dust, allergens. as to calming them down you must remove yourself from where ever the trigger is and if you have medication use it. if not you're just going to have to wait it out.