5 - Heart Failure & High Blood Pressure
This is the heart part of congestive heart failure,
or how the heart gets strained and damaged by high blood pressure.
Cause of
heart failure!
Cause of
heart failure!
Your blood has a lot of things in it…
But blood has TWO
main ingredients:
Your blood is almost…
50% red blood cells
50% water
Plus little bits of stuff like wbcs, platelets & calcium
So our blood vessels have about a gallon of blood in them.
1/2 gallon
red blood cells
1/2 gallon water
1 gallon
blood
which is a perfect fit for the body's blood vessels
we have about 1 gallon of blood in our bodies
Our blood is kind of like KOOL-AID that way…
But there can be problems with Kool-Aid.
Uncle Ernie
uncle ernie's kool-aid recipe
CHF is kinda like Uncle Ernie when it comes to mixing water into our blood.
This is the amount of water that's supposed to be in our blood.
2 quarts
1/2 gallon
but when you have chf, you have this much water in your blood (too much!)
3 quarts! too much!
If you have CHF, You have more blood in your blood vessels (Because there’s extra water in it).
normally, Your body holds one gallon of blood.
2 quarts
red blood cells
2 quarts water
1 gallon
blood
That's what's in this guy
But extra water can be a problem.
if you try to put an extra quart of water into a container of blood…
In the same way, if you put too much blood in your blood vessels…
…It makes High Blood Pressure
And then some of that extra water can leak out of the blood vessels
Into the
lungs
Into the
leg
Into the
belly
Into the
other leg
Another Problem
Something else that can make high blood pressure
Narrowed, constricted blood vessels.
or you can have both
too much blood
in the blood vessels
and
Narrowed, constricted
blood vessels
makes for
super high
blood pressure
