Tricks To Distinguish Chest Pain And Heart Attack

Tricks To Distinguish Chest Pain And Heart Attack

When experiencing chest pain, most people fear it's a dangerous heart attack. Though symptoms of heart attacks are not always in the chest because there are several symptoms that accompany him. Chest pain can also be due to other problems. How to distinguish chest pain due to heart attack or other disorders?

Doctor Rob Lamberts as reported by housecalldoctor , said people need to distinguish when the chest pain is serious because of heart attacks or other diseases, such as those posted on detikhealth.com.

If chest pain leads to a heart attack then quick action should be taken to prevent heart muscle damage that can occur within hours that lead to death.

Doctor Lamberts says for heart attack symptoms, the exact word is not really chest pain but a sensation in the chest. This sensation feels uncomfortable like feeling heavy when breathing, feeling cold in the chest or shortness of breath.

According to almost a third of heart attack patients do not feel chest pain. But the actual symptoms have been felt long ago that the pain that disappeared within 5 minutes or not settled and often ignored many people. Chest pain that arises tenggalam it usually lasts short, not up to 20 minutes.

When is chest pain categorized as a serious heart attack symptom?

The typical symptoms of a heart attack (angina) are:

• Chest tightness, heavy or like squeezed. This condition is described many sufferers such as carrying a heavy burden on the chest or like a chest tight tightened. This sensation is usually felt on the left side of the upper chest. But sometimes it is difficult to determine the right location.
• Out of breath.
• Sweating, nausea and anxiety.
• Pain dileher, left arm and jaw, behind the abdomen, one shoulder or two shoulder.
• Feel weak and fast or irregular heartbeat.

Conditions that can arise even though people are resting. Symptoms that can also arise during or after exercise, stress or after a big meal that there is only one road immediately take it to the nearest emergency hospital unit.

In addition to heart attack chest pain, as quoted by WebMD, chest pain is also a sign of problems or other diseases such as indigestion (gastritis) or one muscle.

Chest pain that is not a heart attack is:

1. Spinal disease 

This disease also causes pain in the chest if the nerves in the spine are pinched.

2. Lung cancer 

Lung cancer also causes chest pain especially if cancer cells have spread to the ribs.

3. Blood clots in the lungs (emboli) 

This condition causes deep chest pain and extreme breathlessness.

4. Pneumothorax lung problems 

This condition causes deep chest pain and extreme breathlessness.

5. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) gastroesophageal disorders or acid reflux disease that escalates into the esophagus. 

This condition can cause pain under the breastbone, a sense of heartburn.

6. Broken ribs 

The presence of broken ribs makes people feel chest pain especially when coughing or taking a deep breath.

7. Pain in the ribs 

If it happens before the red rash appears it could be a sign of herpes zoster disease.

8. Chest pain when coughing 

This condition occurs because there is an upper respiratory tract infection caused by a virus.

9. Pain in the muscles or bone of the chest 

This condition often occurs when a person's activity increases or the person increases his or her sports schedule.

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