According to the spaces of the Internet, the bike walks that at the first signs of myocardial infarction, it is necessary to hone well and this will save a person. It would be not so scary if it were about not such a serious illness requiring competent emergency care. With myocardial infarction, experiments are unacceptable!
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On the expanses of Runet walks the bike about self-help cough with myocardial infarction. She is distributed «With the speed of light» and it is already impossible to remember who spawned this dangerous myth. Obviously one, it is far from medicine, and it is difficult to overestimate the harm from such recommendations.
Myocardial infarction — Heavy heart disease, leading to death in every third case. According to statistics, 30% of patients dies during the first hour, 40% — go for 4 hours, the rest do not live up to the next day.
High mortality from heart attack — This is not the result of inadequate medical care, half «Infarcathods» dies without contacting the doctor. Patients underestimate the threat, prefer to be treated independently, use dubious recommendations from the Internet. Time leaves, the disease progresses, changes in myocardium become irreversible and fatal.
What is infarction?
Myocardial infarction — Heavy manifestation of ischemic diseases, characterized by a violation of the work of the heart as a result of the death of a portion of myocardium when the flow of arterial blood supplying it with nutrients and oxygen.
Coronary arteries are responsible for providing heart. If the arteries are narrowing under the action of stress hormones or as a result of deposition of cholesterol and the formation of atherosclerotic plaques, myocardial muscles begin to starve, with the slightest emotional or physical exertion — this is a catastrophe. Sometimes the cause of the infarction becomes a thrombus, getting into a coronary artery, clogs it, sometimes the vessel is broken against the background of high blood pressure. The result is one — Muscle dies, heart ceases to perform their functions.
And if this is not a heart attack?
With a classic attack of a heart attack, the strongest compressing pain behind the sternum, which gives the neck, left hand and under the blade. Acute pain stimulates the emission of stress hormones causing tachycardia, spasm of coronary vessels, aggravation of myocardium ischemia. The patient begins panic, cold sweat is on his forehead. There is a fear of death, the feeling of the lack of air, heartbeat, interruptions in the work of the heart. Nitroglycerin does not help, the weakness and loss of consciousness occurs due to heart rate disorders.
The heart attack can develop lightning, but more often it is preceded by the attacks of angina and pain in the heart, ongoing from 15 minutes to an hour. This is the time when competent urgent help is vital, with myocardial infarction, the delay of death is like.
Cough with a heart attack is not an assistant
«Mount-doctors» advise at the first signs of myocardial infarction «Self-realization».
«Do not panic, start coughing quickly and very much, deep breathing every time. Cough should be deep and long, expectorant, from the very depths of the chest. Inhale and cough must repeat every two seconds without a breather until the help or the feeling that the heart began to fight normally.
Deep breaths are served oxygen into lungs, and cough compresses the heart and helps blood circulate. Coupling pressure on the heart helps to restore normal rhythm».
Any cardiologist is horrified by such illiteracy.
- First, no patient infarction is able to estimate its condition and put an accurate diagnosis.
- Secondly, with myocardial infarction, the heart is starving and any physical activity, including intense cough, will laugh even «Once» Heart muscle, and this will lead to an increase in the death zone.
What do we have to do?
Urgent help with myocardial infarction includes brigade call «Ambulance», Conduct yourself with a problem will not be able, cough or not cough.
If the pain in the heart arose when you are alone, you should:
- Dial emergency medical service and report happened.
- Provide access to the apartment. Ask for help from outsiders, Call neighbors. If the infarction suspicion has arisen while driving a car, stop the machine, turn on the alarm, open the windows, scream or signal to attract the attention of passing drivers.
- Do not panic, do not fuss and not rumble. Unbutton the belt, weaken the gate and lie down, Placing legs above the heart level — This will provide an additional blood flow to myocardium.
- Take a nitroglycerin tablet under the tongue, In the absence of effect, after 5 minutes, take another and even the third. Myocardial infarction rarely occurs «In an open place», More often happens in patients with angina and experience, it means that nitroglycerin should be at hand.
As for the recommendations for coughing with heart attack. The authors refer to the article published in the journal "Journal of General Hospital Rochester"№ 240. Yes that is not enough, the magazine is so exist, but there are no articles there. Publisher has already published not one refutation. The benefit of cough therapy in the heart attack does not confirm the Association of American Cardiologists, nor the organization Resuscitation Council in the UK.
