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Tips and Prevention Steps for Rheumatic heart disease
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Tags: rheumatic heart disease, acute rheumatic carditis, rheumatic fever, inflammatory disease, tips, prevention
The best defense against rheumatic heart disease is to prevent rheumatic fever from ever occurring.
| | Treating strep throat with penicillin or other antibiotics, doctors can usually stop acute rheumatic fever from developing. |
| | People who've already had rheumatic fever are more susceptible to attacks and heart damage. That's why they're given continuous monthly or daily antibiotic treatment, maybe for life. |
| | If their heart has been damaged by rheumatic fever, they're also given a different antibiotic when they undergo dental or surgical procedures. This helps prevent bacterial endocarditis, a dangerous infection of the heart's lining or valves. |
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