The heart gives us life. It pumps the blood we need to various parts of our body. It is the central point of all our actions. Along with the brain, the heart is responsible for all our actions. Notice that if a person suffers from a stroke caused by atherosclerosis or a blockage in his cardiovascular system, sooner or later, the brain also deteriorates and follows henceforth, possibly resulting to a comatose.
There are different kinds of heart diseases. All of them triggered by too much stress and too much cholesterol. That is why doctors often recommend their patients to have a rest, get some exercise and lessen the cholesterol intake by dining on saturated fat and saturated salts instead. To those who have a history of coronary heart disease, the case is different because they are at a higher risk in getting the disease for good.
Prevention is better than cure. When it comes to the heart, it is better that you know for sure where your heart is at this point. Is your heart healthy or in need of attention and care? You must always be wary of signs of a possible heart attack.
We usually see in movies and soap operas those intense heart attack scenes. However, that is not usually the case. Sometimes, a heart attack can be so subtle, you wouldn’t have an idea that it was already happening.
Truth of the matter is, cardiac arrests begin slowly. It is a mild pain creating discomfort. You feel that your chest is tightening. Sometimes you will brush this off because you’re thinking you’re just too tired and a glass of water is the remedy to your problem.
What is confusing with these chest discomfort symptom is that sometimes it could indeed mean nothing. For patients who have suffered attacks before, the symptoms from previous attacks may be different from what they could feel the next time around.
The key is, just as long as you feel that your chest is tightening and you feel there is a pressurized squeezing in the center of your chest that is painful, stop whatever you are doing at once. Breathe in and out. Relax. Sometimes, the person can also experience discomfort in his upper body. The arms, the back, the jaw and the neck may feel a bit out of shape, even the stomach.
Another symptom is the shortness of breath. This often follows once the person is experiencing those jabbing in his chest.
You will know you’re having a heart attack when the pains you are feeling in your body (chest, arm, back, jaw) do not go away. Then this becomes more severe a little later. The pain becomes a burning and squeezing sensation. You feel you are burdened by something you cannot see. It is as if a bear is hugging you so tight. You feel pressure and could hardly breathe.
That’s when you try to catch your breath but you can’t. Here is where the scenes from movies can sometimes take place. You clasp your chest and gasp for air – sometimes to no avail.
Then you begin to sweat. Your skin is cool and clammy. Inside, you’re fearful and anxious, you don’t know what will happen. The next thing you know, black out.
You passed out.
You wake up in a hospital bed with dextrose attached to your body. Turns out you do have a heart disease,
Anybody can have heart disease. It is how we take care of our heart that actually lessens the chance we have coronary heart diseases like atherosclerosis (blockage of blood in the artery), ischaemic heart disease (reduction of blood supply to the heart), cardiovascular disease (often involving the heart and the blood vessels), and pulmonary heart disease (failure of the right side of the heart to function.)
Try to not allow those symptoms to a heart attack inform you that you have a heart problem. Prevent the possibility by eating the right amount of cholesterol, exercising regularly and taking a rest in between whenever you can.
Look at your body as like that of a car and your heart is the engine. If you keep on driving, then there is a possibility your engine will over-heat. You try to put the right oil and fuel to fully-regulate the function and capacity of your car to keep on traveling, but that will not help unless you park somewhere and let the engine rest.
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