Early symptoms of myocardial infarction

Many people don’t know that, in fact, many elderly people nowadays will gradually experience various changes in their bodies as they get older. Changes in their condition may herald the onset of symptoms. You must be particularly careful to understand these and do a good job of prevention. Patients with myocardial infarction will have obvious symptoms in the early stages of the disease, such as angina pectoris, difficulty breathing, and chest pain. These things must be prevented, and they must be reasonably controlled and vigilant in time.

The symptoms of myocardial infarction due to coronary heart disease are not necessarily typical. Sometimes they are mixed with many other symptoms other than heart symptoms, which may mask the existence of the disease.

Therefore, we must be vigilant and carefully observe the precursor symptoms of myocardial infarction. Because 60% to 65% of patients have precursor symptoms. If there is no history of chest pain and heart pain caused by coronary heart disease, you should pay attention when the symptoms of chest pain and heart pain occur for the first time; if you have had symptoms of chest pain and heart pain in the past, and the onset continues to worsen, the attacks are more frequent, and the intervals between them are shortened, you should be vigilant; if rest or oral administration of some quick-acting pain relievers such as Quick-acting Heart-saving Pills, nitroglycerin, etc. are not as effective as before, or even the pain gradually worsens, accompanied by cold sweats, it may be a precursor to myocardial infarction, and you need to pay close attention at this time. In particular, the precursor symptoms of myocardial infarction in the elderly are not necessarily typical, or even not obvious, so they are easier to ignore or misdiagnose.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the precursors of myocardial infarction are often manifested as persistent chest pain that may last for several hours or even days, sometimes extending to the shoulders, arms, throat, abdomen, etc., or manifested as shortness of breath, wheezing, cold sweats, a weak pulse, or sudden irregular heartbeats, an irregular pulse, or wheezing, cold limbs, listlessness, a weak pulse, or nausea, vomiting, irritability, etc. You should be alert to whether you have acute myocardial infarction, which is what Chinese medicine calls "true heart pain" or "collapse heart pain".

Diet and health care

Patients with myocardial infarction should avoid overeating and stimulating beverages. Overeating will increase myocardial oxygen consumption, aggravate or induce myocardial infarction. Especially after a high-fat diet, it is easy to cause increased blood lipids, increased blood viscosity, slow local blood flow, and easy platelet aggregation and coagulation, which can induce myocardial infarction.

In addition, you should also pay attention to eating less foods that are easy to cause bloating, such as beans, potatoes, onions, garlic and overly sweet foods, and avoid spicy and irritating foods, such as strong tea, white wine, chili peppers, cocoa powder, coffee, etc.

Late autumn and winter are the seasons when myocardial infarction is prone to occur. In addition to keeping warm and preventing cold, it is also necessary to eat food that is functional and nutritious, especially various medicinal porridges. The diet of patients with old myocardial infarction can be arranged according to the diet of general coronary heart disease patients.