Heart and brain: two sides of the same coin, our body. If there is a violation of the work of one, the other is in blockade. This relationship is so dense that you start to get confused in terms, diseases and their manifestations. Previously, only grandparents could "boast" of diseases such as a heart attack or stroke. Now you will not surprise anyone with a brain hemorrhage in a 25-year-old girl or a heart attack in a 30-year-old man.
First aid for a heart attack or stroke in an ordinary family, where there are no experts in the field of medicine, is reduced, if not to zero, then to a minimum. Home Help – diagnose some disease of the above: heart attack and stroke, and quickly call an ambulance. In order not to confuse a heart attack and a stroke, a heart attack with other possible manifestations, one should understand at least a little what the difference is.
Cardiac arrest and heart attack
A heart attack may not be diagnosed immediately, it will seem that the heart just hurts, or it presses, it does not allow breathing. Can suck in the stomach, hurt back, neck, head, arms. Neither lying nor sitting does not get easier. The pain lasts more than 20-30 minutes. In this case, you should immediately seek help from a medical institution. As a result, if the heart does not receive oxygen for a long time, it begins to die, and cardiac arrest may occur.
Stroke
It is a violation of the circulatory organs in the brain, tissues begin to die due to lack of nourishment, and the functional functioning of the brain is disrupted. Blood stops circulating, accumulates in one place, which creates a blood clot and, as a result, a rupture of the vessel, a brain hemorrhage occurs. It happens abruptly and sharply. This disease is also called a cerebral infarction, although the focus of the infarction may be in another organ.
In the event of a stroke, the affected area after a stroke cannot be restored, but the functions it performs can be transferred to neighboring areas of the brain. The main symptoms of a stroke: refusal to move, numbness of the limbs, face, severe headache, & nbsp; sweating increases, nausea, want to vomit, the patient gets confused in conversation, forgets, gets lost, speaks in fragments.
Types of stroke:
- hemorrhagic or ischemic, and
- subarachnoid.
Ischemic stroke, or also called cerebral infarction, is a blockage of cerebral vessels with plaques, in the process of atherosclerosis of vessels and their subsequent thrombosis.
Subarachnoid stroke is considered less popular because it can occur as a result of traumatic brain injury. A hemorrhagic stroke is a rupture of a blood vessel and bleeding into the brain. After a stroke, a person is usually completely or partially paralyzed, because the area of \u200b\u200bthe brain that was responsible for movement dies off.
Heart attack
A heart attack and a stroke are very similar in their manifestations, but nevertheless, in a heart attack, damage to an organ leads to its death. A heart attack damages the myocardium (heart muscle), intestines, liver, kidneys, or brain.
A heart attack (myocardium) has the following symptoms: pain in the back, neck, arms, numbness of the left side, wheezing begins when breathing, cough, heart palpitations, chest pain.
Myocardial infarction often occurs against the background of angina pectoris, atherosclerosis of blood vessels.
Factors that cause heart attack and stroke
- atherosclerosis;
- thrombosis;
- hypertension (often high blood pressure);
- unconscious taking of medications;
- taking alcohol, drugs;
- too much exercise;
- presence of infectious diseases;
- heredity;
- hypertensive crisis;
- blood clotting disorders;
- aneurysm (pathology, is a protrusion of the arterial wall);
- stressful situations, unhealthy diet and lifestyle.
So, 3 main characteristics by which heart attack and stroke are distinguished
- Heart attack – absence or partial nutrition of an organ, its part. Stroke – loss of tissue integrity in the organ, leading to hemorrhage.
- A heart attack is a type of stroke – ischemic stroke.
- A heart attack is characterized by tissue death (complete or partial) due to lack of nutrition of the organ. A stroke is characterized by a violation of the blood circulation process in the brain, which leads to tissue damage.
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