Heart Disease
Heart Disease Treatment
If you have symptoms like chest pain, shortness of breath, cold hands and feet due to sweat, you should go to the hospital immediately. An MI is usually caused by a blood clot somewhere in the coronary artery. Nowadays, if the patient can reach the heart unit within 1 hour of the onset of pain, special drugs are used to liquefy the clot. The first hour of MI is therefore called the golden hour.Besides, the patient is given comfort with various medicines and oxygen for pain, restlessness, lack of oxygen etc.
At the same time, if the patient has hypertension or diabetes, it should be controlled with treatment. After a short period of complete rest, the patient should be gradually rehabilitated with light work.
Life style has to be changed for the future. Smoking constricts coronary blood vessels, increasing blood pressure. Therefore, smoking is the worst enemy of this patient.
Cholesterol and lipids are to be controlled. Generally rice and sugary foods should be eaten less. In order to control cholesterol and triglycerides, full cream milk, curd, ghee, butter, fat, egg yolk, brain, liver, soft part of bones, beef, khasi, sugars, alcohol etc. should be strictly controlled. Medicines are also available to control blood fats and diabetes.
Generally fruits, vegetables, fish, pulses will help in controlling lipids. Control of lipids and smoking and strict management of diabetes and hypertensive disorders have good results.
Exercise or walking prescribed by a doctor after recovery from an attack can be very beneficial for coronary patients. Only the doctor will decide what kind of exercises the patient can take after considering everything.
What Causes Heart Disease
- The risk of heart disease increases with age.
- Men are more affected by heart disease than women. However, women's risk of developing heart disease increases significantly after menopause.
- Excessive anxiety increases the risk of heart attack.
- If parents have heart disease, their children are at higher risk of developing heart disease. The main reason for this is the same eating habits and smoking habits of the family.
- High blood pressure is a serious risk factor for coronary heart disease. Uncontrolled high blood pressure is very harmful to the heart.
- High blood cholesterol levels are an important risk factor for heart disease.
- The role of diabetes in heart disease is very important. Long-term diabetes increases the risk of heart disease.
- If you are overweight, the heart has to work harder to supply blood to the body. As a result, the risk of heart disease increases.
- People who are physically inactive are prone to heart disease. A sedentary lifestyle is another risk factor for coronary heart disease.
- The role of smoking in heart disease is very important. A person who smokes regularly has a higher risk of sudden cardiac death.
Symptoms of Heart Disease
Chest pain in heart disease usually occurs in the middle of the chest. Sometimes it can be spread over many places on the left side of the chest. This pain can range from mild to severe. Usually a sharp pressure is characteristic of this pain. For many, the pain may be confined to the center of the chest or the chest over the heart. Although this pain can spread to the entire chest, left shoulder, left arm, left hand, left hand and fingers.
Sometimes this pain can also occur in the right shoulder. Again this pain goes through the throat to the jaw. Some also feel this pain in the upper abdomen. In case of enzyma, the patient usually feels this pain after exertion and this pain goes away with rest. But once a myocardial infarction occurs, this pain and pressure continues. Then there is often suffocation with chest pain, sweating, cold hands and feet and sometimes palpitations.
Some patients even faint. Glycerin trinitrate (sucked under the tongue or sprayed under the tongue) during pain If the pain does not subside after 2 minutes, suffocation, great weakness or pressure in the chest persists, then the situation should be understood as fairly serious. So it is advisable to go to the hospital.
Myocardial infarction may occur in addition to chest pain in the elderly, those with uncontrolled diabetes, or those who drink heavily. Such patients may present to the doctor with severe weakness, fainting or palpitations, swelling of hands and feet, and discomfort.
Types of Heart Disease
There are many types of heart disease. For example:
Coronary heart disease
Cardio-myopathy
Hypertensive heart disease
Heart failure
Core Pulmonary - Right sided heart failure, respiratory failure
Cardiac dysrhythmias
Valvular heart disease
Cerebrovascular disease—disease of the blood vessels that supply blood to the brain, such as stroke
Peripheral artery disease
Congenital heart disease
Rheumatic heart disease – damage to the heart muscle and valves due to rheumatic fever.
How to Prevent Heart Disease
Nowadays, weight gain is seen from childhood. If you notice, you will see that the children going to school are heavier than before. Due to lack of play space, they may not be playing sports. So the overweight in childhood is seen more. They end up being overweight. They are at risk at some point. Quit smoking. Awareness should be raised against it.
Now we come, there are some diseases that become. For example, high blood pressure. High blood pressure often has no symptoms. That's why we may not treat it easily. If not treated regularly, this disease can progress very quickly. Also, if you have diabetes, it is more fatal.
As important as medication is in the treatment of diabetes, exercise, discipline, and diet are also important. If all can be done together, then the risk of heart attack may be greatly reduced. Or even if its level can be reduced a lot.
Another thing is lifestyle. The rule in living life is not staying for a long time. Some days he eats lunch at one, some days he eats at three. One day he may be returning home at 12 o'clock at night. RKT subjects are observed in young people, working through the night and sleeping till 11 am. It is a bad habit. These things, it seems, need to be brought in our way or brought into order. If we bring them under control, we can prevent heart disease a lot. Mass awareness is very important in this regard. Public awareness is very important. We need to educate the general public or those who are patients. It is important to know how to prevent these things. But we do not know when in the near future there will be a treatment to completely cure this kind of disease. So you must try to prevent it.
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