Explain fluid in the body to me

[Frimley111R]

I know of a few people who have suffered fluid build up due to weak hearts but I don't really know what this is. What is this fluid and where actually is it? Why does the heart affect it and what moves it round the body (assuming the heart only does blood)?

[Hoofy]

LMGTFY?

[Scotfox]

From personal experience quite often down to the Lymphatic System :-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphatic_system

[Prof Prolapse]

Pulmonary Odema (ignore the American spelling below) here you go mate;

"Cardiogenic pulmonary edema is a type of pulmonary edema caused by increased pressures in the heart.

This condition usually occurs when the diseased or overworked left ventricle isn't able to pump out enough of the blood it receives from your lungs (congestive heart failure). As a result, pressure increases inside the left atrium and then in the veins and capillaries in your lungs, causing fluid to be pushed through the capillary walls into the air sacs."

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pulm...

The lymphatics system is a complementary open circulatory system. In context best thought of as drainage. In this instance it's coming directly from the blood vessels however.

Edited by Prof Prolapse on Monday 1st September 16:12

[The_Doc]

Prof Prolapse said:

Pulmonary Odema (ignore the American spelling below) here you go mate;

"Cardiogenic pulmonary edema is a type of pulmonary edema caused by increased pressures in the heart.

This condition usually occurs when the diseased or overworked left ventricle isn't able to pump out enough of the blood it receives from your lungs (congestive heart failure). As a result, pressure increases inside the left atrium and then in the veins and capillaries in your lungs, causing fluid to be pushed through the capillary walls into the air sacs."

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pulm...

The lymphatics system is a complementary open circulatory system. In context best thought of as drainage. In this instance it's coming directly from the blood vessels however.

Edited by Prof Prolapse on Monday 1st September 16:12

That's fluid on the lungs due to a weak heart.

Fluid on the legs principally and due to gravity is peripheral oedema and is also due to weak heart or simple fluid overload in combination with a weak heart. The heart has four chambers and each pair does either the lungs or the body.

In the vast majority of cases fluid not being cleared and leaking under the skin (oedema) is due to a weak heart and NOT lymphatics

And that's from a knuckle dragger.....