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Heart Attack occurs when an area of the heart is deprived of oxygen supplying causing that part of the heart to be injured, weaken, or die. Although a heart attack may appear to come on suddenly especially in an acute myocardial infraction, damage to the heart is usually years in the making.
Symptoms
- Pressure or crushing pain in the chest, sometimes with sweating , nausea, or vomiting
- Pain that extends from your chest into the jaw pit o f the stomach, left arm or left shoulder
- Feeling of tightness in the chest
- Shortness of breath
Complications
- Abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmia). If your heart muscle is damaged from a heart attack, electrical "short circuits" can develop, resulting in abnormal heart rhythms, some of which can be serious, even fatal.
- Heart failure. where there is ineffective pumping of the heart leading to an accumulation of fluid in the lungs.The amount of damaged tissue in your heart may be so great that the remaining heart muscle can't do an adequate job of pumping blood out of your heart. Heart failure may be a temporary problem that goes away after your heart, which has been stunned by a heart attack, recovers. However, it can also be a chronic condition resulting from extensive and permanent damage to your heart following your heart attack.
- Heart rupture. Areas of heart muscle weakened by a heart attack can rupture, leaving a hole in part of the heart. This rupture is often fatal.
- Pulmonary embolism is when one or more pulmonary arteries in your lungs become blocked.
- Valve problems. Heart valves damaged during a heart attack may develop life-threatening leakage problems.
- Pericarditis. an inflammation of pericardium, a double membranous sac that protecting our heart
- Cardiogenic shock- occurs because of the weakened pumping of the heart due to heart disease and especially heart attack.
What you can do?
This is what I did to my Mom when her Blood pressure gets super high. I place a catapress under her tongue. What you can do is place antiangina medicine as prescribed by your Doctor, unless your blood pressure is low (i.e., below 100 systolic)
Prevention Tips:
- Stop Smoking
- Lower high blood pressure
- Reduce high blood cholesterol
- Aim for healthy weight
- Manage diabetes
- Be a physically active each day
This video is about a person helping someone who is having a heart attack. She helped the person to sit down, and she call an emergency right away.
Heart disease is primarily a disease of sedentary lifestyle, and can be largely preventable through risk factor awareness and modification. The best way to Prevent heart attack is to control blood pressure and have LDL (Low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol at low levels. Heart disease is a disorder that affects the ability of the heart to function normally. The common types of heart disease are coronary heart disease, pulmonary heart disease, ischaemic heart disease, hereditary heart disease, inflammatory heart disease, hypertensive disease and valvular disease.
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