How do I keep someone with congestive heart failure from retaining water? We follow a low salt diet, take lasix and potassium.
Your question: "How do I keep someone with congestive heart failure from retaining water…?"
When you say, "how do I…" that is, meaning you?
Well, you go to medical school, finish your residency, and do a fellowship in cardiology, become board certified, then examine the patient. Based on your education and experience, you treat the patient accordingly. Reevaluate the patient every few months just in case the condition changed.
Failing that, you find a board certified cardiologist, and have him or her examine the patient. Based on his or her education and experience, they will treat the patient accordingly. They will reevaluate the patient every few months just in case the condition changed.
I’m not trying to insult you, but rather to make you realize the depth of the question that you’re trying to ask. The other respondents are indeed right. You need to bring the patient to a qualified doctor and do all your question asking there. Its one thing to get on the internet and ask about the side effects of medications; its quite another to solicit treatment modalities. That is something that only the patient’s doctor is qualified to answer.
Good luck.
Ralph
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