Posted on: Friday 17th July 2020 – 7:35 pm | Last update: Friday, July 17, 2020 – 7:35 PM
My daughter has rheumatic fever, and if she has not yet left an impact on her heart, does that mean that she has completely escaped this fate: heart valve injury or is she always prone to this? What is the secret of the cardiologist’s concern that it should be regularly presented to a dentist?
Mother of Hoda
Success in treating rheumatic fever depends mainly on the correctness of its diagnosis, as it seems until now a difficult disease to diagnose, but thank God that it was diagnosed with that integrated image of your daughter, the decline of rheumatic fever without complications is something that deserves, praise be to God Almighty first and then continuously following the case of your child closely and observing all the conditions that guarantee God willing, not to attack it again is often more dangerous. Valve inflammation may result in narrowing or reflux in it, and inflammation may be comprehensive, including the heart muscle with different microbes, including fungi, which requires a difficult long-term treatment.
Prevention of other episodes of rheumatic fever begins with a long-acting penicillin injection that must be taken every two weeks. In Egypt, it may be restricted to eating until the age of twenty-five years, when the occurrence of fever is rare, but the reality is that in the rest of the world a person continues to take it regularly throughout his life.
Oral health has a close relationship to heart health in those cases as well as the condition of the entire body at other times.
Chronic gum infections carry the risk of being associated with similar conditions in the body. The most dangerous thing is what science recently pointed out that the presence of a type of bacteria if it is found in the gum was a sign of the possibility of cancer originating especially in the esophagus. The most important thing to pay attention to constantly.
The importance of oral health increases in a person’s life with increasing age. In a recent study that included evaluation of oral health and its relationship to the origin of cancer among 66,000 women of post-menstrual period 54-80 years, it was found that the incidence of cancer among those suffering from chronic gum infections increased by 14 % On results for those without gum disease.
As for rheumatic fever, a visit to the dentist every six months is crucial, along with the need to always take antibiotics when resorting to any oral and dental surgery for 5 days (two before and three days after the operation).
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