Assoc. Dr. Semra Topcu, influenza (influenza) virus viral infections such as some risky patient groups can weaken the heart of the heart and can lead to heart muscle inflammatory disease, he said.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Assoc. Dr. Topcu said, “Heart muscle inflammation is usually caused by influenza (influenza) virus, COVID-19 (SARS-COV-2) CAXSACKIE B virus, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), Herpes virus and HIV virus. Of course, there are other factors of the disease. Some autoimmune diseases, bacterial infections, some drugs used (such as chemotherapy drugs, some antibiotics) may also cause myocarditis to occur.
What is important at this point is that you take your health seriously without seeing it as a simple infection. Due to winter, we become more often upper respiratory infection. In particular, the increase in the case of influenza virus makes us experts uneasy. In some special patient groups, heart muscles may be affected during the disease process, and sometimes there may be loss of function in the heart muscles, sometimes temporarily and sometimes permanently. We expect patients to take care of their heart health within this framework. ”
‘Some autoimmune diseases can cause heart muscle inflammation’
Saying that some autoimmune diseases also cause heart muscle inflammation, Topcu said, “The immune system can be activated more than necessary in viral infection or some triggers, and myocarditis is one of these conditions. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disease, which causes inflammation with the antibodies produced by the immune system inappropriate against its tissues, is anywhere in the body, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lung and lymph nodes, one of the most common forms of joint inflammation, especially the eye, and the heart. Diseases such as sarcoidosis caused by the growth of small inflammatory cell clusters in the immune system are diseases that have an effect on the heart muscle. These diseases can also perceive immune cells as antigen of their own heart muscle cell and create antibodies against it and damage the heart muscle. ”
‘The immune system affects people with weak heavily’
Myocarditis, heart failure can cause serious situations such as Assoc. Dr. Topcu said, ız If there are unusual chest pain, shortness of breath and fatigue during the course of viral infections, we should be careful for myocarditis if there are situations such as fainting in the pulse and fainting. Symptoms of myocarditis may be faded in some patients, while in some patients, in some patients, we may encounter a table similar to heart failure. In this disease, like many diseases, it affects people with weak immune system more severely. You should get all the necessary supplements to keep your immune system strong. Healthy nutrition and exercise are friendly of heart health. Especially in winter, we recommend that you have the necessary vaccines with the guidance of specialist physicians in order to protect the upper respiratory tract infection. ”
(DHA)