What are the Symptoms of Heart Disease?
If you have the following symptoms, you might have suffered from heart disease which requires immediate attention and treatment. If you are unsure about the symptoms you are experiencing, please do not hesitate to see the doctor for further treatment and advice. Generaly, heart disease suferers may have experienced a variety of symptoms other than the common symptom of chest pain including:
- Shorthness of breath
- Vomiting
- Nausea
- Neck and shoulder pain
- Abdominal pain
- fatigue
- Squeezing sensation, fullness, and/ or pain of the chest
- General epigastric (upper middle abdomen) discomfort
- No symptoms (1/4 of the heart disease cases have been reported to be no symptoms or without chest pain. These silent heart diseases are particularly obvious among the diabetes mellitus patients)
- Sweating
- Headache
- Toothache
- Jaw pain
- Upper back pain
- Indigestion and/ or heartburn
- Vague feeling of illness (general malaise)
- Arm pain (more commonly the left arm, but may be either arm)
Note:
At times, though the occurrence of the heart disease may be vague, mild, light or no symptoms, it is important not to ignore this consequence as it may sometimes become serious as well as life-threatening. Very often, most patients regard the symptoms of stress, fatigue or indigestion as a mild symptom, and thus delaying to seek for prompt medical treatment and diagnosis. Bear in mind that early treatment and diagnosis will save your life, while delaying in obtaining medical assistance can both be life-threatening and fatal. This is because the delay can result in permanently reduced as well as weaken function of the heart which will later cause the extensive damage to the heart tissue and muscle. The sudden onset of arrhythmias such as ventricular fibrillation always invites the death to knock at your door.
How to Prevent from Getting Heart Disease
- Increase more intake of vegie in your diet
- Promote good personal hygiene
- Reduce the intake of animal fat rich-, high cholesterol-, trans fat- foodstuffs
- Quit smoking
- Reduce the intake of alchoholic drinks
- Control your blood pressure and blood sugar
- Control your body weight
- Avoid yourself from being stress, panic and anxious
- Be cheerful, optimistic and happy always (Read How to make yourself happy)
- Maintain a routine, healthy and normal lifestyle
- Take an adequate amount of nap, sleep and rest
- Have your body checked regularly (Read Heart Health Screening)
- Keep up your exercise
Read Proven Methods to cut Heart Attack Risk for more details and thorough explanation.
What is the Normal and Healthy Heart Rate?
Heart rate refers to the number of heart beats per unit of time and it is often expressed as beats per minute. While resting or in a static state, the average male adult heart beats is approximately 70bpm, and for female adult is 75bpm. However, this rate varies considerably and significantly according to different breathing speed, body temperature, exercise, before and after meal, and individual age. Basically, the youngest the person is the fastest its heart rate is, and the oldest the person is the slowest its heart rate is. That means the baby will have the faster heart rate than the adult.
Below is a table that I compiled from various sources:
Age Normal and healthy heart rate (beats per minute)
Fetus 140 - 150
Newborn 130 - 140
1 month -1 year 110 -130
7 -14 years 76 - 90
14 - 21 years 76 - 85
21 - 60 years 70 - 75
Above 60 years 67 - 80
What is the Simple Method to Measure Your Pulse?
Pulse is the term used to measure the heart rate. When someone is in the case of arrhythmias, in which its heart rate is significantly higher than the pulse rate, this method of measuring the pulse will be inaccurate. This is also true for those having the cases of low cardiac output. Thus, a process known as auscultation (listening to heart beats using a stethoscope) is the most appropriate and accurate way to measure the heart rate.
