What is Heart Attack?
Treatment of Heart Attack?And Treatment of Heart Attack ,many a man might be saved after a heart attack if he were fortunate enough to break a leg also. The enforced rest would give his heart the opportunity to recover. But that isn’t the whole story. Treating the heart properly doesn’t depend entirely upon what you do for it those first few weeks after the attack. It’s how you live for ever after that matters.
Most people do not realise that the heart patient often lives with his disease for many years. Many cardiac patients who have dreaded being shuffled off in a matter of days have lived twenty, thirty or forty years longer than they thought possible. Much needless illness and suffering can be avoided when the patient knows what the doctor is trying to accomplish.
All heart trouble isn’t serious. Three out of four fearful persons who walk into the doctor’s surgery have normal hearts. A fleeting pain in the left chest (“It’s right over my heart”); the recent loss of a relative or friend (“Why, I saw Jack only yesterday and he looked perfectly healthy”); the desire for reassurance (“There’s so much heart trouble about, Doctor”)-these are only a few of the things that strike fear into healthy people. On the other hand, many people who actually have heart disease don’t visit their doctors for a check up.
John Jones refuses to chance “hearing the bad news.” John Brown uses these excuses: “It’s just because I’m slowing up,” or “It’s only indigestion.” Yet the “acute in digestion” of former years was often heart disease.Here is a simple formula, for the healthy as well as for those with heart trouble, that guarantees a smoother trip along the road to longevity: First. Visit your doctor for a physical checkup if you have any of the following symptoms: chronic cough, spitting up of blood, fainting spells, asthmatic attacks, swelling of the ankles, tiredness, indigestion, palpitation, rapid pulse, shortness of breath, chest pain, dizziness or the inability to lie flat in bed.
Second. Listen only to what the doctor says. Specific advice for the individual should not come from sympathetic but untrained friends, from papers, periodicals or books.There are many kinds of heart disease: congenital, rheumatic, syphilitic, atherosclerotic, bacterial, among others. They are in many ways similar, but in more ways different. Medicine has appropriate drugs for each, but there is only one basic treatment. Call it a Way of Life. Without it most other treatment is useless.Some years ago a well-known doctor wrote the following letter to a patient who had suffered a heart attack. It contains sound advice even for those who are in good health.
You have evidently made an excellent recovery from your recent heart attack. That attack should have warned you to live a life which would lessen the work of your heart. However, you have continued to be overweight; you have been eating and drinking as much as you desire. You have carried on strenuous business activities, working long hours and often at top speed. You have not curbed your quick and, at times, rather violent emotional reactions. The load on your heart has been too heavy. Hence you are now incommoded by shortness of breath and other disturbing symptoms.
You come to me for advice, as you have gone to other doctors, perhaps hoping that I can give you a drug which will enable you to carry on as you have been doing. Unfortunately there is no such drug. But let me outline a regime which will help you immensely if, after a period of almost complete physical, emotional and mental rest, you will follow it very conscientiously:
How to saved your self from heart attack?
1. You should bring your weight down to what is normal for your height, build and age. This reduction must be brought about slowly, by modifying your diet and by graduated exercises-not by reducing drugs. Refrain permanently from overloading your stomach.
2. You must cut down the extent and speed of your physical activities. Do not run to catch a train, hurry up stairs, attempt to park a car in a closed-in space, or use any set of muscles to the limit of your vigour. Refrain from physical effort immediately after eating, and do nothing that will make you short of breath. If at any time you begin to breathe fast, or experience a constricting chest pain, lie down and rest.
3. You must indulge in mental tasks only when your mind is fresh, and cease them when you become weary. Thus you will be able to give your best consideration to business problems with the least strain to yourself.
4. You must curb your emotional reactions. When I tell you that I have known a patient’s blood pressure to jump sixty points almost instantaneously in response to an outburst of anger, you can understand what strain such reactions can throw upon the heart. I realise that you are quick on the trigger and inclined to blame those whose behaviour incites you, rather than to consider yourself foolish for letting them disturb you. Such a viewpoint is not uncommon.
The great Scottish surgeon John Hunter, suffering from much the same condition as you, and appreciating the effect of such emotional reactions upon his heart, said that his life was in the hands of any rascal who chose to annoy him. Even he forgot that he should discipline himself, and he had a fatal attack during a fit of anger.Whenever a business problem starts to vex you, or you begin to get angry, let yourself go limp all over. This will dissipate your mounting inner turmoil.
5. Try to be cheerful under all circumstances. Unfortunately, you are a moody man, given at times to considerable sadness. Such a state does not lend itself to the proper generation of the heart and blood vessels. It may seem to you that to be cheerful when you are inclined to sadness is easier said than done. Let me make a suggestion: Whenever you are feeling down in the dumps, think of some particularly pleasing worthwhile experience you have had. Your mood will often respond to the thought.
If you were a smoker, I should have to tell you to refrain entirely, as I believe tobacco to be injurious to those afflicted with degenerative cardiovascular lesions.Your heart is calling for a complete change in your ways. It is further asking that it be permanently housed in a lean, cheerful, placid man who will intelligently curb his physical, mental and emotional activities.I have a number of patients who years ago had the same thing happen to their hearts as has happened to yours. Today they are still enjoying a sense of well being and are doing valuable work. You may similarly respond if you will seriously follow the fore going regime.
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DR. PETER STEINBECK