Causes of pain in the heart
When pain in the heart, you can't try to diagnose yourself, you need to seek medical help. The doctor will conduct all the necessary research and prescribe the appropriate treatment. To determine the cause of unpleasant sensations in the heart area it is necessary to pay attention to the degree of their severity. If a person feels oppressive pain, spreading to the left arm, this symptom may be indicative of cardiac ischemia. In acute myocardial infarction appear longer and more intense pain.
Myocarditis is accompanied by aching, pressing, stitching pains in the region of the heart that occurs after physical exertion. Most often, discomfort in the heart observed in pericarditis, they can appear in the quadrant, their peculiarity is the dependence on body position and breathing. Almost always accompanied by pain, cardiomyopathy, myocardiodystrophy. When the mitral valve prolapse observed for a long aching, pinching or pressing pain symptoms. Often with manifestations of heart disease can be confused with the pain associated with neuroscience. However, in this case the discomfort will depend on the movement of the chest and aggravated by change of posture or with a deep breath.
What to do for pain in heart
If the pain in your heart appeared for the first time, you need to take 40 drops of Valocordin or Korvalol." You can also place the tablet under the tongue "Validol". You need to give yourself a rest. Then you should drink a pill of Aspirin and one tablet of "Dipyrone", drinking a half glass of water. If after 15 minutes the pain subsides, you need to call an ambulance.
If the patient knows his diagnosis, and he caught the pain in the heart, to relieve an attack, you must do the following. Angina need to place the tablet under the tongue Nitroglycerin, needed fresh air. If discomfort in the heart caused by neurosis, is useful Valerian, fresh air and exercise. Cause unpleasant symptoms in the heart could be increased pressure, in this case, you need to take a fast-acting drug reduces, for example, "Corinfar".
The appearance of a sharp heart pain can be a symptom of a heart attack. You need to put the person to give him the tablet under the tongue validol or 40 drops of Corvalol" ("Valocordin"). If this does not work, you should give the patient the tablet under the tongue Nitroglycerin, urgently call "ambulance". When the pain in the heart can help Sustac, "Nitronal, "Sorbitol", "Nitrosorbid, but these drugs will take time to work (average 10-15 minutes).
