Heart Failure: Lifestyle Education

Watch this to help understand what a heart-healthy diet is and how it can help you manage your heart failure.

Understand how limiting your fluids can reduce your symptoms of heart failure.

Learn how much sodium you should have each day, and a few tips for reducing the amount of sodium that you eat.

Understand the importance of keeping to a daily medication routine and learn a few strategies to keeping your medications organized.

Watch this video to learn how smoking affects your heart, and common ways to quit.

This document created by The University of Kansas Health System will provide an overview of heart failure diagnosis and education on managing symptoms through home care, medication, and follow-up care. Includes the Heart Failure Zone Tool: A Daily Self-Check and daily weight chart.