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Don’t ever think that you are not prone to suffering a heart attack at your age whatever that might be, or even at an earlier age of 25 – 30. In today’s world, due to our modern changes in life style, stress, diet and in some cases lack of exercise etc., heart attacks are occurring more and more among all the age groups and it is no longer reserved just for the older generation and the ‘ won’t ever happen to me !! ‘ mind set.

• Generally speaking:   A sudden severe pain in the chest along with  some difficulty of breathing as well as a sense of pressure / weight  on the whole chest area chest,  that then starts to radiate out into your upper left chest and arm and also up the jaw area is sort of what one will experience with a heart attack.

One thing that people are usually never really taught about in the CPR courses is how to help YOURSELF in the event of a sudden heart attack.  All very well being there for the other person, but what if you are alone and a little away from emergency help, and you need to ‘ buy ‘ time to get to the Emergency Hospital and much needed help.

Since many people are actually alone when they do suffer a heart attack, with some self help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and experiencing the above mentioned symptoms, then begins to feel faint, and in reality has only 10 – 15 seconds before they will loose consciousness.

Easy to say but……DON’T PANIC !!!

Start coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.  Take a deep breath before each cough.

The cough should be deep and prolonged as when trying to produce sputum from deep inside the chest.A deep breath and vigorous cough must be repeated about every 2-3 seconds without letting up until help arrives or you can get  to some help, or until the heart is felt to be beating reasonably normal again, and even then you still need to urgently get to the Emergency to be accessed and checked properly.

The deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and the vigorous coughing movements help to by creating a squeezing pressure on the heart which stimulates the pumping rhythm.

By doing this, heart attack victims have a better chance of getting to a hospital for proper emergency help.

UMHLANGA   and    BALLITO - CHIROPRACTIC CENTRE    Dr Keith Chittenden