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# Heart Attack |
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## What is heart attack? |
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Both men and women have heart attacks. Heart attack happens when |
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blood flow to the heart is blocked for a long enough time that part |
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of the heart muscle begins to die. This is usually caused by heart |
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disease. |
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heart disease |
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## Signs |
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Heart attack |
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* Pressure, squeezing, tightness, burning, pain, or a full feeling |
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in the chest |
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* The pain may spread to the neck, shoulder, arms, teeth, or jaw |
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* The pain usually comes on gradually, but sometimes can be sudden |
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and intense |
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* Shortness of breath |
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* Sweating |
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* Nausea |
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* Feeling lightheaded |
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Chest pain is the most common sign for both men and women, but women |
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more often do not feel chest pain. Instead they feel shortness of |
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breath, tiredness, nausea, vomiting, or back or jaw pain. |
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## Treatment |
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Give 1 tablet of aspirin right away (300 to 325 mg). Ask the person |
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to chew it up and swallow it with water. Even if you are not sure |
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the person is having a heart attack, aspirin will do no harm. |
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If you have it, give nitroglycerin dissolved under the tongue. |
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Morphine helps with the pain and fear. Reassure the person and get |
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help. |
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medicine for heart attacks |
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medicine for pain |
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