This is an excellent and practical health
tip for solving emergency heart attack problem before medical help becomes
available. The key is to get oxygen onto the body system. Share this with
your family and friends.
HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE
Let's say it's 6: 15 p. m. and you're driving home (alone of course),
after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and
frustrated. Suddenly, you start experiencing severe pain in your chest
that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw.
You are only about five miles from the
hospital nearest your home; unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able
to make it that far. What can you do? You've been trained in CPR but the
guy that taught the course neglected to tell you how to perform it on
yourself. Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack,
this article seemed to be in order.
Without help, the person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins
to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
However, these victims can help themselves
by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken
before each cough. The cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing
sputum from deep inside the chest. And a cough must be repeated about
every 2 seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the heart is
felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs
and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating.
The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In
this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.
Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their
lives!
From Health Cares, Rochester General
Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON . . .
(reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)
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