Follow Your Diet Following a heart failure diagnoses, you need to make the following 3 important lifestyle changes: Salt: Minimize salt consumption to less than 2 grams (2,000 mg) per day. Fluids: Drink less than 8 cups (64 ounces, 2 quarts, or 2 liters) per day. Alcohol: Consume one drink per day, if any Other adjustments to your […]
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Weight
Weigh Yourself Each Day Stepping on your scale is one of the most important steps you can take toward controlling your heart failure systems. Keeping accurate notes of your day-to-day weight fluctuations will help you and your healthcare providers keep your heart failure under your control. Rapid weight changes can be a sign of gaining […]