Well this morning around 7 my mom had to call the ambulance because my dad was coughing up phlem and there was blood in it. He had a gargle in his throat. We both knew it was his CHF. But what caused him to have blood in his phlem? My mom said something about the doctor thought it might be an artery clot. Can someone tell me what that is?
2007-06-15 08:59:38 · 6 answers · asked by cool_teenidsay 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
I wish I could give you a better answer. This sounds like fairly advanced heart failure, so I'm glad you're engaged in figuring out what is going on. I encourage you to keep a list of questions and present them to your doctor (or your mother, for that matter). If she doesn't know the answers, then she should be willing to ask them of the doctors.
Heart failure is a difficult condition to deal with, but we're learning more about it all the time. (My wife has cardiomyopathy and early stages of heart failure.) I recommend you read as much as you can at http://www.chfpatients.com. This will get you up to speed on some of the vocabulary, tests, medications, etc. so that you can ask more insightful questions. It is written in plain english by a CHF patient, so you should be able to follow it all without much difficulty.
Good luck!
2007-06-15 12:58:41 · answer #1 · answered by Mark M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-19 22:44:39 · answer #2 · answered by Claudia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in chf sometimes your heart doesnt have enough power to pump all the blood that comes into it, out of it. just before the blood going through your body reaches your left ventricle it comes from your pulmonary veins (veins in your lungs) to be oxygenated. So if your heart cant pump it all out, then some blood gets backed up in your lungs. Then if enough is built up over a period of time it can begin to mix with the mucuous membranes and aveoli and stuff all down in there and can come up when you cough.
2007-06-15 09:08:36 · answer #3 · answered by doomjockey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CHF is the condition that the heart is faliure to do his pumping action of the blood to the whole body. So everywhere have slowing of blood flow and lead to collection of fluid (fluid come out from the blood vessel) called Edema. Lung also have Edema and it cause to elevate pressure in lung circulation. When the pressure in the tiny lung blood vessels increase it can perforate and blood come out and patient cough out blood.
2007-06-15 09:16:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, sweety, sometimes their is some blood when people with CHF cough. It is not abnormal. There are a lot of medications to help with this and they will try what is best with your Dad to help him.
Hang in there!
2007-06-15 12:39:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
frothy red sputum is not uncommon in severe CHF, the blood comes from compressed alveoli in the lungs.
2007-06-15 09:04:54 · answer #6 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋