When To Call a Professional
Call your doctor if you experience chest pain, even if you think you are too young to have angina pectoris and no history of heart problems in his family. Your doctor will recommend the next steps depending on how you describe your symptoms and risk factors. (more…)
When the cause of angina is coronary artery disease, treatment usually includes:
* Changes in lifestyle, including weight loss for obese patients, smoking cessation therapy, drugs to reduce high cholesterol, regular exercise program to reduce high blood pressure and stress reduction techniques.
* Nitrates: nitroglycerin including: nitrates are medications that widen blood vessels (vasodilators). Increase blood flow in coronary arteries provide the heart and pumping blood to the rest of the body. (more…)
Duration
A crisis of angina usually lasts less than five minutes. Pain that lasts longer than that or acute may suggest a more significant decrease in blood flow to heart. This can happen when someone is having a heart attack or unstable angina.
Prevention
You can help prevent angina, which causes blockage of arteries caused by coronary heart disease by controlling your risk factors. (more…)
Your doctor may suspect that you have angina based on your symptoms and risk of coronary artery disease. The doctor will check your background to see if you smoke (or smoked) and if you have diabetes and high blood pressure. Ask about family history and check your cholesterol levels, including LDL (commonly called “bad” cholesterol) and HDL (commonly called “good cholesterol”).
Check your blood pressure and pulse, and examine your heart and lungs. You may need one or more diagnostic tests to determine if you have coronary artery disease. Tests may include: (more…)
Angina is discomfort or pain in the chest when not enough oxygen-rich blood to heart muscle cells. It is not a disease but a symptom of a more serious condition, often a coronary artery disease in which the vessels supplying the heart (give blood) is narrowed or blocked.
Coronary heart disease is usually caused by atherosclerosis, a disease in which fatty deposits (called plaque) on the inner walls of blood vessels. Although angina most commonly affects middle-aged men or older, can occur in both sexes and all ages. Angina is also known as angina pectoris. (more…)
Treatment
Some early cases of anaphylaxis can be treated with antihistamines and corticosteroids. The most severe cases involving emergencies that endanger life and require immediate medical attention. Epinephrine should be administered at the first sign of a serious reaction to slow the progression of symptoms.
Physicians should treat anaphylaxis with epinephrine and intravenous fluids. It is also likely that the person needs treatment with oxygen, mechanical ventilation (a breathing machine that helps the patient temporarily) and antihistamines or corticosteroids intravenously. (more…)
Duration
If done early and appropriate treatment, cases of anaphylaxis can improve quickly in a few hours. If a person has already developed more serious symptoms and the most hazardous conditions, it is likely that a few days after treatment a complete recovery. If untreated, anaphylaxis can cause death within minutes or hours.
Prevention
This disease can be prevented by avoiding the allergens that cause symptoms. For example, people who are allergic to foods should always check the ingredients list on labels and ask the waiter about these before eating in a restaurant. If you are allergic to bee stings, you should limit gardening and mowing, and should not use perfumes, hair spray or shiny clothes to attract insects. (more…)
Symptoms
Usually, the symptoms of anaphylaxis occur within seconds or minutes of allergen exposure and vary from mild to severe. These symptoms include:
* Rapid pulse, sweating, dizziness, fainting, unconsciousness
* Wheezing or chest tightness, shortness of breath, cough
* Hives accompanied by itching, which can be combined to form larger areas of skin swelling
* Swelling of lips, tongue or eyes (more…)
Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction, which can put lives at risk, which occurs within minutes of exposure to an allergy-causing substance (allergen). Also called anaphylactic shock.
Faced with a severe allergic reaction, the body’s immune system responds to the presence of an allergen by releasing histamine and other chemicals in the body. These chemicals cause the symptoms of allergies, which are usually mild, such as runny nose in the case of hay fever (allergic rhinitis) or skin rash caused by poison ivy. (more…)