Heart attack

Heart attack is sudden stoppage of the heart due to an inadequate cerebral circulation which leads to coma within one minute. In such case recovery of patient is possible if it is relived within3 minutes. If is exceeds 4-5 minutes server and permanent brain damage occurs.

When somebody is suffer from heart attack then do following things to give him/her first aid:

• Breathing and circulation maintained simultaneously as rapidly as possible .
   

• If foreign body is suspected, the patient must be rolled on one side and 4-5 forceful blow must be delivered rapidly between the shoulder blades with the heel of the hand.
   

• After the foreign body is excluded, the patient should be kept in the supine position as he may require external cardiac massage and artificial respiration.
   

• The patient's head must be lifted with one hand under the neck and the other hand pressing the forehead so that the head is titled backward to keep the upper airway patent.
   

• The patient 's nostrils must be sealed with thumb and index finger and mouth to mouth respiration must be given to patient.
   

• When the patient in supine position neck extended and legs elevated, a sudden sharp thrust is given on the chest wall. This may restore the effective beating of the heart especially if the cardiac arrest is due to cardiac standstill.
   

• Give external cardiac massage is given .The heel of both the hands ,one above the other, the arms straight and extended and in the kneeling position, the lower sternum of the patient is compressed firmly to depress it for at least 4-5 cm for about half a second. This is carried out with a rocking movement, regularly and rhythmically at the rate of about 60/min.
   

• Once the basic life support is maintained an ECG must be taken to determine whether the cause of cardiac arrest is venticular asystol or venticular fibrillation.
  If it is ventiular asystol, while electrical methods of treatment like external cardiac pacemaker are made available, in addition take drugs.
  
   

Management is done in following ways:

1. Immediate measure must be taken to resuscitate the heart. External cardiac massage with mouth to mouth respiration may be required.
2. If the ECG shows venticular fibrillation, external electric shock with a DC defibrillator may start the heart beat.
3. Temporary pacemaker should be introduced and external pacing should be done till a permanent pacemaker is inserted.

Diet & Heart disease:

In may country we see that peoples are disturbed regarding high high blood pressure and heart disease. When people have heart disease or any heart problem then with medicine they are also concentrate on their diet:

• Eat fruits, vegetables in large quantity.
• Avoid any non-veg. food.
• Eat soyabean, onion daily.
• Take milk ,curd without any cream
• Prefer taking soups.
• Take dinner 2-3 hours before sleeping.
• Do not take dinner at once eat food in small quantity 3-4 times in day.
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Take care:
 

1. For controlling high blood pressure do not eat salt in large volume.
2. In pickle, meat, bakery product, papad etc salt are present in large quantity so avoid these things.
3. Do not use ghee, and oils in excess amount.
4. Yellowish part of egg contain large amount of cloistral, so avoid to eat egg regularly. eat 2-3 eggs in week.
5. Do not drink tea, coffee in large quantity.
6. Do not take alcohol.
7. Do exercise about 30 minutes daily.

Accept above habit in your life, these are keys to avoid any heart disease.