According to epidemiological data, China alone has 540,000 cases of sudden cardiac death every year. After a sudden death the golden time for resuscitation is only four minutes, more than four minutes will lead to irreversible damage to brain cells.
In fact even if one is saved, he may become retarded, the survival rate of cardiac arrest is less than 1% and 43% of sudden deaths are among the young people under 40 years old.
SIGNS OF SUDDEN DEATH
90% of sudden deaths are cardiac, the main cause is the accumulation of lipids in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart, the blood vessels are narrowed or blocked causing the heart to lose blood and unable to beat. Sudden death is sudden, but it doesn’t happen without warning; the body notifies you usually 30 minutes or even a few days before sudden death.
The body will show some strange signs; a crushing pain may be felt in the chest before the onset of sudden death, usually in the center or left side of the chest even to the left side of the arm and the left side of the face. You may experience palpitations, chest tightness and shortness of breath, you may even hear your heart beating clearly.
It is even worse if is accompanied by sweating; sweating means the body thinks you are in danger and activates the sympathetic nerves. There may also be abdominal pain, headache, nausea and vomiting, if you experience any of these signs then you need to be on your guard.
HOW TO PREVENT SUDDEN DEATH;
first of all staying up late at night and overworking, nighttime is the time to relax and rest and also the time when the blood supply demand decreases but you still stay up late and work overtime, this will make the sympathetic nerves vigorous, the heart oxygen consumption increases thus causing sudden death so you have to get as much rest and sleep as possible.
Many people have heard of sudden death from exercises but in fact it is not the fault of exercise, it is actually a long time without exercise. Suddenly high intensity exercise leads to increased oxygen consumption of the heart muscle thus sudden death. Exercise must be gradual, do not blindly challenge the body to its own limits.
Nowadays, young people consume unhealthy diet almost every day. Unhealthy diet will cause obesity and high blood fat resulting in the accumulation of lipids in blood vessels increasing the risk of sudden death so we must pay attention to a healthy low fat balanced diet.
You can eat more fish; the omega 3 fatty acids in fish is friendly to blood vessels. If you don’t like fish, you can choose to eat some fish oil but be sure to choose fish oil with high concentration in addition emotional abnormalities in smoking are the main causes of sudden death.
Sudden death is like a time bomb hidden in the body, once it happen it will not give you any chance. So don’t go haywire on the brink of sudden death.
By Aminu Oluwasegun
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