There are claims that certain changes in diet may deliver modest diuretic benefits. These include caffeine drinks, foods like asparagus, and herbs like hawthorn. Keep in mind that research doesn't ...
[38] In the setting of refractory edema (inadequate diuretic response after 120 mg oral furosemide), 10 CHF patients were administered furosemide infusions titrated to clinically adequate diuresis.
Although diuretics do not directly treat the pathologic changes that occur with heart failure, they are the mainstay of symptomatic treatment to remove excess extracellular fluid, thus alleviating ...