How to effectively prevent the journey of a heart attack

April 19, 2016

Source: newspaper wen wei Po

Is the most beautiful world April day, good spring is the best season to travel for an outing. Now the long journey is not in the minority, for those of us who have heart disease, the trip may induce acute heart attack. March 31, member of Chinese academy of sciences, fudan university director of cardiology, zhongshan hospital affiliated jun-bo ge is on thousands of meters up american-bound flights passengers emergency treatment for a heart attack. Similarly, famous cardiovascular expert cummins p. cardiac-specific troponin last October in high-speed rail passengers to successful treatment of a sudden heart attack. Can say is, unfortunately, the two patients in the pleasant journey sudden cardiovascular disease, threats to life, but at the same time, they are lucky, and that's what they all met with top experts, cardiovascular disease in the case of a medical condition is extremely crude in the first time to get the most appropriate disposal, won the time for the subsequent rescue.

With the development of our country economy, people living standard rise, business travel, holiday has become the indispensable part of the ordinary people's life. Travel can loosen body and mind, broaden their is a good thing, but a journey sudden cardiovascular disease may be life threatening, even sudden cardiac death in the event, to be reckoned with. Not everyone can so lucky, in attack coincided with experts at the same time, to be able to save the day. Therefore, in the long journey, every traveler should save for a rainy day, in front of the journey, the journey to make sufficient preparations, escort for their trip.

Travel most often induced disease have?

According to statistics, every 1 million passengers, there are about 16 will appear on the plane emergency medical rescue, sudden death events during the flight, also occur. Trip most often induced cardiovascular diseases including not good control of hypertension, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, acute myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, acute heart failure, serious will happen sudden cardiac death. People from one environment to another environment will inevitably have some does not adapt, together with the road is busy, tired, has a history of cardiovascular disease patients may be because of the not adapt to induce serious cardiovascular disease, and some think health, asymptomatic, cardiovascular disease, probably due to the fatigue of the journey, such as changes in the environment to make some potential health concerns out of the outbreak. So we should be how to ensure the safety of travel?

Pieces will prepare work before travel

Confirmed in patients with cardiovascular disease, should communicate with the doctor before a long trip, to evaluate health and function of the cardiovascular system is suitable for long-distance travel, the doctor sure things are at the steady state before travel. At the same time, according to the doctor's advice to prepare what we need in the whole journey of first-aid medicine and taking drugs, encounter. Packing, in addition to take what you need, high blood pressure patients should carry sphygmomanometer, and the device implanted cardiac pacing patients should carry good validity of the Po unit model, the details of the card, in case the pacemaker in abnormal work can be disposed of properly. In addition, don't forget to bring my usual clinic medical records and inspection reports (e.g., electrocardiogram, echocardiogram, etc.), to prevent a heart attack in one thousand on the road, emergency personnel can quickly grasp present condition, timely rescue. Travel best want someone to accompany, if the trip is expected, may require a doctor's help to find out in advance travel destination, medical institutions nearby choose hotel.

In general, patients with a history of cardiovascular trip need to pay more attention to their health, and always no history of cardiovascular people tend to be more easy to carelessness, think you do not have any discomfort, the body is healthy. In fact, there are quite a few people before the first heart attack, without any discomfort. Some time ago, 301 hospital professor yong-gang zhang, director of the spine is the acute myocardial infarction occurred during the journey, lead to sudden death. This seemingly healthy him, but actually the body hidden dangers. So we how to find the clues of the cardiovascular disease, how to early detection of the heart disease risk? Generally speaking, the common risk factors of cardiovascular disease are: long-term smoking, over 50 or women after menopause, early onset of cardiovascular disease family history, obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, etc. If the above three or more risk factors exist, perhaps is the potential for people at high risk of cardiovascular disease, should assess the cardiovascular system function to the hospital, especially before a long trip, to understand their own heart whether there is a hidden danger.

Mixer attaches great importance to the travel center to prevent the onset of vascular disease

Well-prepared before departure, to find and deal with underlying diseases, and is necessary for his trip to safeguarding, journey and what problem should note again?

1, to ensure a healthy diet

Traveling will taste the local specialty, combined with the dining hours are not fixed, prone to hunger meal, full meal, eat too fat, and so on and so forth. Several studies show that feast then, heart health are especially vulnerable to the effects, 1 hours after eating the chance of a heart attack for other periods of 10 times, 2 hours appear the risk of heart disease is four times that of ordinary people, therefore cardiovascular patients avoid overeating. Of course, you can find some healthy snacks with local characteristics, pay attention to eat more fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains, etc., as far as possible to avoid fast food and Fried food. For high fat and sugar and other unhealthy food, occasionally also can "indulge", allow yourself to indulge, but must follow the principle of "small amount".

2. Avoid overwork

Appropriate activities will bring benefits to cardiovascular, however excessive fatigue would put stress on the body, make the blood pressure, heart burden, cause the original cardiovascular disease. As a result, people with cardiovascular disease should be fully assess their athletic ability, avoid strenuous activities and overload. Holiday schedule of shoulds not be too fast pace of life, don't too full, every day have a rest and relaxation time, relieve fatigue. At the same time, also pay attention to avoid sweating a lot, such as sweating, more attention should be paid to add salt and electrolyte can cause potassium loss after because of profuse sweating, basis for cardiovascular disease may induce arrhythmia.

3. Choose the right season to travel

Tourism should be chosen in the late spring and early summer or autumn, the pleasant climate, not cold or heat induced cardiovascular diseases. Hot summer climate, long time outdoor activities may lead to heat stroke, thus aggravating induced cardiovascular diseases. And winter is the season of heart disease, cold air will stimulate blood capillary contraction, peripheral vascular resistance increases, lead to high blood pressure, cardiac load, easy to induce myocardial ischemia. And in patients with chronic heart failure itself resistance is poorer, the journey can make immunity decline further, in the cold weather are more likely to cause a cold, such as a cold not get timely treatment leads to secondary infection can induce acute heart failure. Cardiovascular disease, therefore, people try to avoid cold winter travel, such as inevitable, it should pay attention to keep warm.

4. Get plenty of sleep

Journey, normal life rule is broken, a lot of people sleep time is often not guaranteed. The researchers found that rest and sleep deprivation is the biggest killer of human health, will cause the sudden illness such as heart disease, for two consecutive night less than 5 hours of sleep time, the possibility of a heart attack is 1 to 2 times higher than normal. People with cardiovascular disease, therefore, must pay attention to sleep, as far as possible to ensure 7 to 8 hours of sleep every night.

5. Avoid adventure tourism projects

Even if there is no basis of cardiovascular diseases, under the stress state, may also appear vasospasm contraction, blood pressure increases, the adrenaline secretion to increase, thereby increasing the heart burden, cause heart disease. Therefore, patients with heart disease should avoid the adventure tourism projects, such as bungee jumping, roller coaster, and so on.

6. Take medicine on time

Journey, life not regularly, some older patients with memory loss, easy to forget to take medicine. Some people do not take the ideological, think missing several drugs no matter. Little imagine, take medicine on time is very important for patients with cardiovascular diseases, and the result of random drug withdrawal can be fatal. Journey, therefore, must be taken on time, don't do STH without authorization. During the trip, can prepare a pill boxes, 7 days a week with a "ammunition", in which taking the drug, and carry them wherever you go, still can use mobile phones, medicine the alarm set time to remind ourselves that this is not easy to forget. Patients who have very bad memory requires the companion urged the medicine.

7. Maintain defecate unobstructed

Trip due to the original life rule is broken, many people tend to forget and constipation defecate on time. Little imagine, when constipation, intense effort during defecation, increased abdominal pressure will increase blood pressure and myocardial oxygen consumption, so as to induce the outbreak of angina and myocardial infarction. Therefore coronary heart disease patients, especially patients with a history of myocardial infarction, installation of stents must pay attention to on time defecate, journey to ensure that the green vegetable intake, and pay attention to drinking water, avoid constipation.

8. Special attention tourist attractions

People with cardiovascular disease is best not to bubble hot spring, for a long time because of the hot spring water temperature is higher, can make the whole body blood capillary expansion, heart blood flow decreased, prone to myocardial ischemia, angina, severe cases can cause myocardial infarction or sudden death. People with cardiovascular disease do not choose high altitude to trip, because it's thin air oxygen content is low, easy to cause the body hypoxia, induced cardiovascular diseases.

9. Regularly assess the physical condition

Poorly controlled hypertension people daily measurement of blood pressure, monitoring blood pressure control, found the problem in time. Patients with chronic heart failure can check the presence of edema of lower limbs. In fact, to check for edema, is very simple, only need to press the calf tibia of the skin, if skin sag, and don't bounce soon, that means lower extremity edema; Conditional word can also monitor their own weight.

10. Listen to the signals of the body

Although is often a sudden heart attack, but most of the time, the development of the disease will have a period of time, the body have a some warning signals, if timely notice may take necessary measures, in order to avoid a catastrophic attack of heart disease. Trip if there is a chest discomfort, arm numbness, difficulty breathing, shortness of breath, cold sweat, nausea or dizziness; Heart failure in patients with sudden difficulty breathing during sleep at night have to sit up to ease, appear afore-mentioned unwell should be cause for alarm, should be timely request medical staff to help.

In a word, the road eastlands and a variety of factors such as environment difference, easy to make people have a history of cardiovascular burden increase cardiovascular system, may induce acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, severe arrhythmia, such as cardiovascular disease. With cardiovascular disease or cardiovascular disease risk groups, should attach importance to their own physical condition when traveling, do their work in the travel, travel before, nip in the bud, encounter, to have a safe and pleasant journey.