Heart Attack Self Help

Heart Attack Self Help A viral message of self help is making its round through whatsapp.. Reportedly written by a cardiologist Dr Siva, a senior doctor of the heart… It implores each reader to spare a mere 2 minutes, to please read his message… Doing so, you will be ready when heart attack strikes and you are alone, needing aid.. It is a fact we must all be fully aware, heart attacks do give an early warning… If you feel nauseous and you feel faint, your internal alarm bells should start ringing… When next strikes a severe pain at the heart, make no mistake , this is it… The pain, it spreads up to your arm and onto your jaw, you are in dire straits.. Urgent is the need for more oxygen for your agonised heart, CPR quick, please.... Some of us may have knowledge how to apply aid and CPR to a heart attack victim… What if, now you are the suffering victim, and the pain strikes, you can’t even scream.. Doctors say, time is of essence, delay is the greatest enemy for any heart attack victim.. Even if the hospital is mere minutes away, you desperately need immediate help right away.. Do as Dr Siva says, draw deep breaths and cough deeply, do them repeatedly and very vigorously… Each breath be deep, each cough deep and prolonged, as if to expel sputum deep inside the chest.. Doing so, more oxygen is drawn into the lungs, the coughing squeezes the heart, blood circulates.. This simple self help, of deep and vigorously coughing when in the throes of a heart attack… All these, they help squeeze your suffering heart into regaining its normal rhythm …. In any heart attack situation, every millisecond counts, and until you get professional help.. If you are alone, then it is all down to you to stay alive a few seconds longer till expert help.. This simple self aid may yet save your life, and to many others who read this message… So do spread and share this knowledge, for as one ages, it’s our lives at stake…. And here is the frightening fact, when heart attack happens, you're helpless... You will, on the average, a mere 11 seconds before succumbing to unconsciousness.. So this little self help is not in jest, neither is it a fictional nor creative token... Let's pray it will not happen to you or I, but by being thus informed, your 1st survival step is taken..