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How To Survive A Heart Attack When Alone by secretcode01: 12:18pm On Jan 19, 2015
Let’s say it’s 7.25 pm and you’re going home
(alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far.

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only
about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

However, these victims can help themselves by;

1- coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.

2- A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.

3- 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.

4- 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.

Thanks

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Re: How To Survive A Heart Attack When Alone by jerflakes(m): 3:08pm On Jan 19, 2015
Sweet.

You just saved a life.

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Re: How To Survive A Heart Attack When Alone by Jack188: 8:07pm On Feb 13, 2015
Thanks for the article, it is really useful, as for me. Have you heard about natural treatment methods for heart diseases. I learned some from Dr. Abdul Samad (http://drabdulsamad.com/ - his website) It is a really very promising treatment for different diseases. Take a look there

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