Curing
Heart Disease
Disclaimer:
it is must to take recommendations of a heart specialist before taking any
step. The information in this article is provided only to increase the
awareness level of people with regard to heart disease.
Heart Diseases
The Covid-19 outbreak creates the fear in people to visit the hospitals and health centers for entire one year and the patients of heart diseases who have weak immune system faced many complications during the period. Every year, the number of death cases increased due to heart diseases. It is fact that the people with health heart live long healthy life than the people with heart diseases. The immune system is affected adversely with intake of medicines to cure heart diseases. The bodies with healthy hearts have more reserves to tackle the complications than the others. A person with heart disease should always consult his doctor for making more care of the heart and for this purpose, there should not be any hesitation. Nothing is valuable than the health and it is proved during the times of covid-19.
Initial stage of Heart Disease:
Feeling chest pain or
discomfort in chest or difficulty in breathing are considered initial symptoms
of a heart disease. However, most of the people due to lack of awareness
underestimate such symptoms and take ordinary medicines to treat such symptoms.
How to arrive at a decision that such symptoms are relating to heart disease?
Recognizing the heart disease:
Whenever a person feels
any symptom relating to cardiovascular disease like pain in chest, irritation,
or shortness in breath etc; the first step becomes necessary to consult a heart
specialist. The heart specialist before arriving at a conclusion relating to
disease, checks the blood pressure, pulse rate, and also asks for
Electrocardiogram (ECG), ECHO, and Angiogram. The ECG basically shows the
electrical activity of the heart how it contracts and how it relaxes to detect
the normality of the heartbeats or any abnormality in it like inadequate blood
flow or any damage. On the basis of analysing the reports of each test, the
conclusions are derived with regard to the heart disease. The treatment of
heart disease is most critical and nobody can take risk of taking any medicine
without recommendation of a heart specialist.
Recommended Allopathic Medicines and their side effects:
Most of the heart
specialists prescribe allopathic medicines to cure the heart diseases including
Aspirin, Statin drugs, Beta Blockers, Nitrates etc. The MayoClinic explains the daily
aspirin therapy by describing the benefits and risks of it. After going through
the information it can be concluded that the Aspirin is recommended to increase
the thickness of the blood and taking it for longer span of time can be
dangerous. The Statin drugs are recommended to contain the higher level of bad
cholesterol in the blood. However, the statins are explained as safe even in
the long run on the basis of findings by the 2014 Johns Hopkins Meta Analysis; but
even after such findings, one may not completely rely upon statins. The Beta
Blockers are recommended to reduce the bad effects of stress hormones such as
adrenaline on the heart. There are a lot of risks explained by Healthline.com for using beta
blockers. In order to handle the emergency situations, doctors usually
recommend Nitrates. The Nitrates also have side-effects as explained by Webmd.com. In case of blood
clots, in order to dissolve the blood, various types of enzymes are
recommended. Every medicine is recommended to be taken daily and the person
becomes dependent upon the medicines.
What medicines do inside the body?
A question which always
make the patients worried, is whether these medicines work as a permanent
solution to the heart disease or not? It is found that the medicines increase
the thickness of blood, control the blood pressure, cholesterol level, and
other symptoms arise from the heart disease. The medicines suppress the
symptoms and not heal the disease permanently. As the symptoms are suppressed,
the patients feel well. For example, in case of any pain, the patients are
recommended by painkillers and after taking painkillers, they feel relaxed.
Heart Surgery and its effects:
In cases of critical
position of a patient, the heart specialists recommend surgery to treat the
disease. There are two types of surgeries i.e. Angioplasty or Bypass Surgery.
The Angioplasty is a procedure to restore the blood flow through the artery. In
case of Angioplasty, a thin tube is thread thought a blood vessel in the arm or
groin up to the involved site in the artery. For more details, it is
recommended to go through detailed information available online.
The device inserted inside the body is known as Stent.
What a stent do to cure heart disease:
It has been proved that
the stents help in keep the coronary arteries open which reduce the chances of
heart attack. When a stent is inserted into the point of blockage i.e. a
clogged artery, the stent takes its place. Thereafter like a balloon, it expands
itself and get locked at that place. In other words, a cardiac stent is
generally used to treat narrowed or blocked coronary arteries and particularly
to improve the immediate flow of blood after a heart attack.
Bypass surgery in heart disease:
In few cases when it is
not possible to use the cardio stent, the heart specialist recommends for the
bypass surgery. Usually it is recommended in case of replacement of the damaged
arteries. The damaged arteries cannot supply the blood inside the heart which
can be a cause of heart failure. In bypass surgery, a blood vessel from another
part of body is used to supply the blood inside the heart. It made a bypass
arrangement of flow of blood in the heart. It depends upon the number of
arteries blocked or damaged to bypass the supply of blood, it may be single or
double and sometimes triple or quadruple bypass surgery. More the damaged
arteries, more the complex heart operation becomes.
Complications of surgery in heart disease:
After the surgery, the
patient is required to take omega-3 fatty acids in diet apart from the medicines
recommended by the heart specialist. In order to reduce the pain, the heart
specialists usually recommend ibuprofen or acetaminophen. The medicines should
be taken strictly under the control of doctor. After the surgery, the breath
process become short and the patient also feel chest tightness.
Side effects of Surgery in Heart Disease:
In case of both types of
surgeries, the heart is operated to ensure adequate flow of blood and heart is
one of the most sensitive parts of the body; therefore, the operation is
life-threatening. Sometimes the surgery is too costly to afford due to
unavailability of heart specialty as per the requirement of the patient. Even
after the surgery, the patient is not fully cured. Further, in case of stent,
it is required to operate the heart again whenever required to again insert the
another stent. Further, the price of stents is also affected with corruption
and most of the time, the stents are available at higher prices. Sometimes,
heart specialists are involved to increase the cases of stents and it is also
found sometimes that they receive commission for making profits out of heart
cases with stents. When a patient first time affected with heart disease, then
the fear of death followed by advice of heart disease made him convinced to get
the stent implanted even if it is not too much required.
Fear of death in heart disease:
The cardio-blockage or
heart-attack are such critical diseases that everybody fears to think about.
The patients became so fearful that they continued the medicines for whole
life. Instead of knowing the real causes behind the disease, why the patient
suffered with and what can be the best solution; the patients became wholly
dependent upon the medicines.
The ultimate solution to heart disease:
The recent revolution to
preferring yoga and meditation to cure the diseases, have change the picture.
The blood pressure and level of cholesterol are two things which are cured by
physical exercise, yoga, and meditation. The National Heart Lund and Blood
Institute found that the stents in itself do not make any contribution in
improving the blood supply to the heart and they only make physiological
influence in patients that something is inserted to improve the blood supply
and such assurances work for improving the situation of the patients. It is
also found that at the time of surgery, the blood stopped to flow inside the
brain and the brain is damaged for a few time. Earlier it was supposed that
such damages are cured with the passing of time but the research in Japan
showed that such damages are not cured in all patients and in 50% patients,
such damages stays for forever and be permanent. The patients also lead to
strokes in the brain within one year of the heart surgery which may also lead
to death of the person.
Improving the life style for fast recovery:
In order to cure the
heart disease, one thing which is not conveyed by most of the heart specialist;
is to improve the life-style. The blood pressure can be controlled by the
medicines but that is not the good solution, one should prefer to take
recommendations of Yoga specialists to burn the calories and balance the blood
pressure.
Intake of medicines without improving life style lead to surgery:
The medicines have their
own side-effects and the use of Yoga and Meditation are boons for everyone. The
intake of medicines for longer duration, made the situation critical. For
example, the use of Aspirin for longer period can be a cause of bleeding in brain
because the more thicker the blood is more the flow of blood will be and
bleeding chances increases with intake of Aspirin. In such critical situations,
what can be done by a person suffering from initial symptoms of Heart Disease.
Similarly, the more intake or longer time intake of Statins medicine can also
lead to side effects on body and mind. The Statins leads to Neuro-muscular
ageing which made the heart weaker. The Beta blockers reduces the supply of
blood and reduces the pulse rate of the heart which reduces the flow of blood
in all parts of body. The persons who take Beta Blockers usually feel cold in
fingers of hands and feet because the blood supply becomes less in such body
parts.
What can be the best solution?
The life-style management
is the best way to stay far from all symptoms of the heart diseases. The life
style not only improves the symptoms of heart diseases but also improves the
immunity of the heart patients to fight with all types of diseases.
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