Don’t treat [Myocardial Infarction] Heatstroke in hot weather, this symptom is a precursor to myocardial infarction

 It was hot, and no matter where I went, I felt a heat wave in the air. I walked for a few minutes, my whole body was wet, and my clothes were wet and sticky. Sweating can regulate body temperature balance, expel metabolic waste, and remove garbage in the body.

In a hot day, body fluid is easy to lose, easy to heatstroke, and it is a period of high incidence of cardiovascular disease. [Myocardial Infarction] and [Heat Stroke] are often easy to confuse people's sight, we need to be vigilant and pay attention to discrimination!

There are several abnormal manifestations of the body, and we must be alert to the onset of myocardial infarction:

● Sudden chest pain, mostly in the early morning;

●The nature of the original angina pectoris has changed (frequency conversion, aggravation, and duration prolonged), or the cause is not obvious, it usually occurs when resting at rest, and the effect of taking nitroglycerin is poor;

●Pain is accompanied by profuse sweating, nausea, vomiting, arrhythmia, hypotension, etc., that is, "pre-infarction state";

●When angina pectoris occurs, symptoms of cardiac insufficiency appear or the original symptoms of cardiac insufficiency are aggravated.

When these abnormal manifestations occur in the body, do not hesitate to seek medical treatment in time, and do not delay to avoid aggravation!

4 ways to distinguish myocardial infarction or heatstroke?

Some patients mistake myocardial infarction symptoms such as palpitation and chest tightness for heatstroke, which delays the treatment time. In fact, there is a fundamental difference between myocardial infarction and heat stroke. Let's take a closer look.

body temperature

Heatstroke refers to a series of heat stress syndromes in which the body temperature regulation function is impaired under the action of long-term high temperature, high humidity and heat radiation. The symptoms are mostly caused by disorders of the internal environment of the body. Heatstroke patients are often accompanied by fever, with a body temperature of over 38°C.

Patients with myocardial infarction generally do not have obvious fever in the early stage, but due to decreased cardiac output (the amount of blood pumped out of the left or right ventricle per minute), blood pressure, and vasoconstriction, skin temperature decreases, and extremities are cold.

Chest tightness

After heatstroke patients stay away from the high temperature environment and take a quiet rest in a ventilated and cool place, and after proper fluid replacement, chest tightness and shortness of breath are often significantly improved.

The chest tightness of patients with myocardial infarction is a squeezing sensation in the precordial area, often accompanied by chest pain and a dying sensation.

complexion

Heatstroke sufferers will experience a decrease in blood volume and pale complexion after a lot of sweating. Before this, they often have flushing and burning skin.

Patients with myocardial infarction have different clogged blood vessels. Some people have pale and cold sweats, while others have painful expressions and ruddy complexions.

Sweating

Heatstroke and sweating are caused by high ambient temperature. The sweating parts are often on the chest, back, forehead, neck, and underarms.

When a myocardial infarction occurs, the patient's blood pressure drops and the peripheral blood vessels constrict. In addition to the neck and forehead, the sweating part may also appear on the palms of the hands and the palms of the feet.

To avoid myocardial infarction and heatstroke, we must prepare daily and keep the following measures in mind.

Daily life skills

Drink enough water, don't be greedy for cold

It is hot and sweats a lot. Keep 1500ml of warm water a day. Try not to mix it with cold water or iced drinks to avoid gastrointestinal diseases.

Don't stay up late

Staying up too much can easily induce myocardial infarction and lead to a decline in physical fitness. For this reason, we cannot stay up late.

Proper exercise

Appropriate aerobic exercise, not strenuous exercise, can effectively exercise the physique and prevent the occurrence of diseases.

Chinese medicine conditioning

When there is a family inheritance of cardiovascular disease, you must pay attention to timely medical treatment, and usually pay attention to regulating the sub-health state of the body under the professional guidance of a doctor.

If it is hot when you go out, feel dizzy, headache, fatigue, etc., you must pay attention to find a cool place to rest, reduce energy consumption, and seek medical treatment in time.