During National Heart Month, there are two important ways you can boost your heart care: understand how to keep your heart healthy, and learn how home care can help you recuperate following heart surgery.
These simple steps can help maintain heart fitness by keeping cholesterol and blood pressure levels in check – two principal risk factors for heart disease, heart attack, and stroke.
Visit your physician routinely. At least once per year, arrange for a checkup to ensure any new conditions can be detected and taken care of early, and any existing issues can be kept in order.
Recovering from a heart attack or surgery is often a complex process, usually taking weeks or even months. During this time, you may have:
One of the recommended ways to ease this recovery period is to partner with a home care professional, like Morning Glory Home Care, an expert provider of home care in Belleville, IL and nearby areas. Doctors typically advise having someone in the home for at least the first few weeks of recovery following cardiac surgery. Our care providers are fully trained and experienced in watching for changes in condition and reporting them immediately, along with providing valuable support in a number of ways, such as:
Give us a call at 618-667-8400 after (or ideally, before) heart surgery and let us help improve your heart care routine and make the recovery process as easy and comfortable as possible.
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