Heart Attack | Share Insights on Heart Attacks

Myself @aspiya From #Bangladesh

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Greetings Wonderful Individuals

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I am glad to have been part of the contest Heart Attack | Share Insights on Heart Attacks which has been organized by @ahsansharif. This contest is an ideal platform to disseminate knowledge and create awareness about the causes, signs, ways prevention and treatment from heart attacks. With this post I’m trying to get across the fact that this is an extremely important and critical health issue and also help others understand how important it is to have heart health.

What is Heart Attack?

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When blood stops bringing oxygen to part of our heart muscle, that's what a heart attack is called. A blocked artery happens when substances including plaque and cholesterol build up inside the arteries that lead to our heart. Plaque breaking apart in the coronary artery creates a blood clot in seconds that stops all blood flow. When your heart doesn't get enough oxygen, its muscle gets hurt, with permanent damage possible if you don't get help right away.

What are the three symptoms of heart attack explain it.

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We need to know what heart attack symptoms look like to call for help right away and save lasting harm to our heart. Here are three common symptoms:

🔹Chest Pain or Discomfort: The main symptom of a heart attack appears as pain, feeling squeezed, or muscle tightness in your chest. People experiencing a heart attack normally say they need to carry around a big weight on their chest.

🔹Shortness of Breath: Sometimes this happens separately or together with chest pain, or difficulty breathing. The heart is fighting to do its job and providing insufficient oxygen supply is the result.

🔹Slightly Pain or Discomfort in Other Areas: Heart attacks don't only cause chest pain. Instead, heart attack pain spreads to different parts of the body. The initial pain can move through your body, showing up often in your arms (usually only the left arm), shoulders, neck, jaw, or back. However it’s often brushed off, this is a big reason to take notice of the radiating pain.

The symptoms from person to person can differ, may even be minimal, especially for women, who have a tendency to show symptoms of milder signs like nausea, fatigue or dizziness. Knowing and taking action on these signs early can mean lives.

How does smoking affect heart attack?

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Heart attacks and cardiovascular diseases can be greatly increased by smoking. It directly harms the heart and blood vessels in several ways:

🔹Narrowing of Blood Vessels: The linear of the arteries gets damaged because of smoking and these fatty deposits (plaques) build up on the lining of the arteries. This narrows blood vessels, undermining blood flow to the heart and raises your chances of getting blockages that lead to heart attacks.

🔹Increased Blood Clots Formation: The substances in cigarettes, nicotine and carbon monoxide, lead to more clots of blood forming in the body. Blood flow through the coronary arteries can get blocked when blood clots grow inside. This blockage causes heart attacks.

🔹Raised Heart Rate and Blood Pressure: Nicotine right away causes an immediate increase in your blood pressure and heart rate, all of which puts strain on your already hard working heart. Over many years of this constant strain, the heart gets progressively weakened, making the heart prone to attacks.

🔹Reduced Oxygen Supply: It reduces amount of oxygen in the blood while increasing the demand of it to the heart. Otherwise, this imbalance is hard on our heart, particularly when our heart is stressed.

Promising good results after quitting smoking, which can significantly reduce risk of heart attack and improve general heart health, benefits actually quite a lot through the an exceptional step towards this healthy life.

Tell me a story about a heart attack that happened to you or someone you know.

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Alhamdulillah by the grace of almighty Allah none of my close family have ever been a victim of heart attack, neither I. Yet I somehow recall hearing about one of my far off relatives who had a heart attack. This story I heard from my mother.

My mom once shared with me that this relative never cared about his health at all. He was a chain smoker and a total alcoholic. It's safe to say that his habits certainly did a number on his body, in terms of causing the heart attack. Never was health to him and never was he to be concerned with maintaining a healthy lifestyle or being able to control these harmful addictions.

I do not know details of his condition or how he is recovering other than his story is a constant reminder to look after our health. But huge reductions in the risk of heart attacks and other serious health problems can be achieved by not smoking, staying away from drinking and bad habits.

In conclusion, we need to take of our health and our heart. Healthy habits and avoiding harmful practice can keep us away from the serious classes of health issues including heart attacks.