First aid for Heart attack

Symptoms that may appear when heart attack comes

Symptoms in adults:

Chest pain: Chest pain is the most common symptom that seen in heart patients. Chest pain comes usually from the center of the chest; it may last for more than a few minutes or comes and goes. May feel like pressure from the inside of the chest. During this pain, always not from pain it may be felt in other areas of the upper body, such as the jaw, shoulder, one or both arms, back, and stomach area.
Cold sweat:
Lightheadedness:
Nausea:
Shortness of breath: Shortness of breath is the common symptom of women heart patients

First Aid

Do.
=>Have the person sit down, rest, and try to keep calm.
=>Loosen any tight clothing.
=>Ask if the person feels any chest pain medication for a known heart condition.
=>Help the person take the medication (usually nitroglycerin, which is placed under the tongue).
=>If the pain does not go away promptly with rest or within 3 minutes of taking nitroglycerin, call for emergency medical help.
=>If the person feels strong pain in the chest and other upper body parts, then get the medication immediately.

DO NOT.
=>Do NOT leave the person alone even if you go to call for help, if necessary.
=>Do NOT allow the person to deny the symptoms and convince you not to call for emergency help.
=>Do NOT wait to see if the symptoms or/and pain go away.
=>Do NOT give the person anything by mouth unless a heart medication (such as nitroglycerin) has been prescribed.

How to prevent heart attack and when to contact a medical professional...?

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When to Contact a Medical Professional

..>If chest pain or other symptoms of a heart attack occur suddenly.
..>If an adult or child is can’t or is not breathing.

Prevention

Adults should take some steps to control heart disease risk factors whenever possible. If you smoke…then you know smoking doubles the chance of developing heart disease. Do you have blood pressure problems, cholesterol, and diabetes …? Then keep them in good control and follow with your doctor's orders.
If you are a fat person then try to loss weight. The best way to prevent heart attack and symptoms is “regular exercise” that will improve your heart health. (Talk to your doctor before starting any weight loss or new fitness program.)
Limit the amount of alcohol you drink. I want to tell you that please avoid alcohol; you can live some more days in earth. Only drink if you feel that is necessary. Try to drink only one in a day it will reduce the rate of heart attacks, but two or more drinks a day can damage the heart and also may cause other medical problems.

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Children have Heart attack…?

Today the adults and older people have a high risk of getting a heart attack. But unfortunately even young children are also having the heart attacks. Not to be every child, heart attack in children is happening very rarely, two pediatricians at Ohio have recently reported that occurrence of heart attacks in 9 young children.

Do you know 9 yrars old Dan..? He has Heart attack, read about him here

I want to introduce a child, who was an example of such a situation Dan, who is a 13-year old boy. He is the son of Beth Meter, is a cardiac nurse and has seen quite a number of heart attacks during her service. One day her son complained of a crushing chest pain that has radiated into his left arm, she immediately recognized that her son was struggling with a heart attack. Check the medical history of Dan, when he was in seventh grade, pain in the chest first occurred, that was in March 2006. Dan’s teacher recognized the uneasiness occurring in Dan as the boy was looking pale and felt a stretched muscle. The pain gradually subsided. However, that day comes; Dan was taken to the hospital with a high forced pain. Concerns of heart attack were ignored at the hospital despite unusual blood tests and abnormal imaging results. He was later referred to Dr Lane, who then confirmed that Dan actually had a heart attack. He is currently being treated with heart medications.

In the view of Drs. John Lane and Giora Ben-Shachar of Ohio, who have treated Dan and eight other children, the cause of heart attacks in children has nothing to do with obesity, high fat diet, family history, high blood pressure and drug abuse. Important thing is, out of the nine children treated, eight were boys and one was a girl, which means young boys are at an increased risk of getting a heart attack compared to girls. Doctors feel that heart attack in children occurs due to a heart spasm that stops the supply of blood to cardiac muscle for a brief period.

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