From this article you will learn: if the heart hurts, what should be done at home? When emergency hospitalization is needed, how can I give first aid for pain in the heart? What can and can not be done with pain in the heart.
Contents of the article:
- When pains in the heart need to be called by doctors, what to do before their arrival
- When emergency hospitalization is not needed, what can you do at home
- What not to do at home with heart pain
An area in which heartache occurs, located directly behind the sternum, sometimes can be shifted slightly to the left. Typical heart pains are compressive, pressing or burning, often intolerable. A characteristic sign is irradiation( painful echo) in the left half of the body( in the arm, under the scapula, shoulder, jaw).Usually occur against a background of nervous stress, physical stress, in the process of eating and gradually fade at rest.
Click on the picture to enlarge In case of acute cardiac pain, it is necessary to call an ambulance brigade, it is by no means possible to stop the attack on your own.
Before the arrival of doctors can provide first aid, drugs that allow you to use at home - aspirin and nitroglycerin.With aching, pulling or stabbing, but tolerable pain, which is repeated regularly, there is no need for emergency hospitalization. However, it is absolutely necessary to consult a cardiologist and get a checkup to determine the cause of the onset of the symptom.
When pain in the heart requires emergency hospitalization
There are several signs that( in 80%) can distinguish the pain of cardiac origin:
- It occurs suddenly.
- Rarely - at night or early in the morning.
- Usually - in the process of performing any physical action, after eating, against a background of severe stress.
- Pain is intense, unbearable, burning, tearing, pressing, compressive.
- "Gives" to the left half of the body( in the arm, shoulder, under the shoulder blade, jaw).
- May spread to the stomach or back.
- Its intensity does not depend on changes in body position, breaths or exhalations.
Pain during an attack may not be too bright and distinct, because of the strength of its manifestation it is impossible to conclude how serious the cardiac pathology caused it.
If the pain is combined:
- with shortness of breath;
- with growing panic, fear of death, excitement;
- weakness;
- pallor of the skin or cyanosis( cyanosis) of the skin;
- cold sweat;
- with nausea;
- with vomiting;
- loss of consciousness,
, these signs indicate cardiac pathologies( myocardial infarction, angina), when they appear, the patient needs to be hospitalized.
What to do at home before the arrival of the ambulance
When acute pain is felt behind the sternum, the time of the onset of an attack is identified, they call the ambulance team and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher( against the background of which the character developed, whether there is shortness of breath, pallor, sweating, etc.)..
What can I do at home before the brigade arrives:
- to calm a person without using any medicinal sedatives( no valerian, corvalol in drops!);
- is easy to seat or lay( not on the left side);
- to provide room ventilation( open the window);
- remove or unfasten clothing that interferes with the free position of the body;
- give the patient one aspirin tablet( the drug dilutes blood, improving blood flow and blood supply to organs);
- give a tablet of nitroglycerin( the patient must dissolve it in the oral cavity).If you are not sure that the pain is caused by cardiac pathology, you need to stop taking aspirin. Nitroglycerin greatly dilates the blood vessels and lowers blood pressure, it can be dangerous for people with hypotension( low blood pressure);
- if after 5 minutes the pain does not pass - the patient should still take a nitroglycerin tablet.
Nitroglycerin can be given only 3 times with an interval of 5 minutes, it is possible that it will extinguish acute pain.
If within 20 minutes the attack succeeded in dying, the patient still needs to be hospitalized, completely examined and diagnosed, which caused the appearance of the symptom. Especially it is necessary if the pain does not subside( 20 minutes after the onset of the attack).
When emergency hospitalization is not needed, what can be done at home
Heart pain or similar sensations can be caused not only by heart disease, but also by a number of other causes( hypertension, neurosis, hernia of the esophagus).You can help yourself at home if you know or suspect which disease triggers the appearance of a symptom.
With angina pectoris( a form of ischemic heart disease), the pain will ease
- The yellow card on the chest, in the heart area. After about 5 minutes, it will expand the underlying vessels, cause a rush of blood. An additional effect is the irritating effect of mustard, which will distract from unpleasant sensations in the heart. Keep mustard plaster on the breast should not be longer than 20 minutes.
- Pepper bandage on chest, in the area of the heart( hold no longer than 20 minutes).
- Tray from 2 liters of warm water( not more than 45 ° C) and a tablespoon of mustard, keep feet in water for no more than 10-15 minutes.
- 10-15 drops of fir oil, if rubbed into the skin in the sternum for 5-7 minutes.
- Validol in the form of drops( 4-6 per piece of sugar) or tablets( one under the tongue), the drug will begin to act for 2-3 minutes.
For pains in the heart and increased pressure
Alternate for 10 minutes a hot( slightly more than 50 ° C) bath with cold( room temperature) water. The feet are immersed in hot water for 2 minutes, and in the cold - for 20-30 seconds.
For pains in the heart and hernia of the esophagus
Drink half a glass of still still drinking water with 1 teaspoon of soda.
For pains in the heart against a background of depression, depression, spleen, neurosis
- Grass motherwort, valerian, peony, hawthorn fruits mix in equal proportions, brew a teaspoon of raw material with one glass of boiling water. After cooling, infuse strain, divide into three parts, drink 1/3 slowly, in small sips.
- Mix melissa and thyme in equal proportions, brew a teaspoon of the mixture with steep boiling water, after cooling, strain. Divide into 3 parts, 1/3 drink slowly, in small sips.
Any, even the weakest, pains behind the breastbone - an excuse for going to the polyclinic and a complete examination, heart pathology can be better treated in the early stages.
What not to do at home with heart pain
For strong pains in the heart that occurred for the first time, do not recommend:
- intensively move, perform any exercises( the load increases the symptoms);
- to be nervous;
- breathe deeply, performing respiratory gymnastics( possible thrombus rupture and thromboembolism);
- apply massage( possible thrombus rupture);
- stimulate the vagus( vagus) nerve( vagal tests help to eliminate tachycardia).
No folk or home remedy does not have sufficient vasodilating or analgesic effect to calm the pain in the heart for a long time. All methods produce a temporary effect without eliminating the cause of the onset of the symptom.
Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to consult a cardiologist, an individual examination and appointment, adequate supportive therapy, own funds, a stopping attack.
