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Treatment of myocarditis depends on the cause and severity you experience. For example, people with only mild viral myocarditis may rest at home. They will be adviced not to smoke or drink, and they will need to limit strenuous activities until an ECG test gives a normal result. People with myocarditis that causes heart failure or cardiac arrhythmias will need hospital treatment. There they will receive oxygen, medication, or a pacemaker to treat or prevent cardiac arrhythmias. Medications including diuretics, digoxin and vasodilators are successful in treating heart failure. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are something your doctor might use to relieve pain. Anticoagulants successfully prevent blood clots. Antibiotics, usually given intravenously, are a valuable aid in bacterial myocarditis or Lyme disease treatment. Diphtheria antitoxin and antibiotics should be the therapy of the choice to treat diphtheria myocarditis. Glucocorticoid medication is therapy used to treat giant cell myocarditis.
Other patients with more damage may need to limit some of their activities and take many medicines for the rest of their lives, and live with myocarditis consequences. For patients who have suffered severe damage to the heart, a heart transplant might be the only choice left.
You must call your doctor immediately if you have moderate or severe chest pain, even if you think that you are too young to be having heart problems. Once you report myocarditis in an early stage, it could be easier to treat and achieve better results. People of any age can get the chest pain of myocarditis, with or without other symptoms, so watch for anything you could think is similar to myocarditis. In most people with uncomplicated viral myocarditis, the illness goes away on its own, but you might need some treatment to heal your heart completely and prevent permanent damage.