How to Survive Heart Attack When Alone & Warning Signs of Heart Attack...

How to survive heart attack when alone?

A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two 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!!

What are the warning signs of a heart attack?

According to experts, the body is likely to send out one or more of these warning signals during a heart attack:

• Chest discomfort: Most heart attacks involve uncomfortable pressure, fullness, squeezing or pain in the center of the chest lasting more than a few minutes.
• Discomfort in other areas of the upper body: This includes sudden weakness in your arm/s, shoulder/s, neck, jaw or back. Pain may range from mild to intense.
• Shortness of breath: Gasping or shortness of breath that gets worse when lying flat. It often comes after chest discomfort, but it can also occur before chest discomfort.
• Anxiety: You may feel a sense of imminent doom or have a panic attack for no apparent reason. You may also suffer loss of speech, have trouble talking or understanding speech and experience blurring or loss of vision.
• Light-headedness: You may feel dizzy or like you're about to pass out.
• Sweating: You may suddenly break into a cold sweat.
• Other symptoms include nausea, vomiting, indigestion or unusual/unexplained fatigue.

What are the risk factors that increase chances of a heart attack?

The following conditions increase your chances of suffering a heart attack:

• High blood pressure
• High blood cholesterol
• Obesity
• Stress
• Being physically inactive
• Smoking
• Diabetes (high blood sugar)
• Atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries)
• Having a parent with a history of coronary heart disease puts you at a higher heart attack risk, especially if your father had a heart attack before age 55 and/or mother had a heart attack before age 65.