Once people are old, the most feared is heart disease, especially coronary heart disease, due to the rapid onset of disease, high case fatality rate, easy misdiagnosis, missed diagnosis, etc., which has a huge impact on the safety of patients' lives, sometimes even if rescued, due to untimely rescue, it will also seriously affect the quality of life of patients.
Therefore, there are many heart emergency drugs in the clinic, with aspirin, quick-acting heart-saving pills and nitroglycerin three most common, many patients have preparations at home, but there are also many patients who have misunderstandings about the use of emergency drugs, indiscriminate use, abuse of the phenomenon occurs from time to time, sometimes will cause serious consequences.
63-year-old Zhang, some time ago at home is watching TV, suddenly felt chest pain chest tightness, delay can not be relieved, Lao Zhang thought that there is nitroglycerin to relieve chest pain at home, he quickly took a piece, but after taking a piece, the symptoms were still not alleviated, Lao Zhang ate another piece, the symptoms were not alleviated. In this way, Lao Zhang took 8 tablets of nitroglycerin before and after half an hour, and finally was sent to the hospital by his family due to sudden shock, and as a result, a amount of blood pressure has been reduced to 70/50mmHg, and later diagnosed Lao Zhang as an acute myocardial infarction, and people almost did not rescue him.
50-year-old Uncle Li, although old, but the body is still very tough, what disease is not, recently saw the Internet said that people to a certain age is easy to get cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, eating aspirin can prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, so he went to the pharmacy to buy two bottles of aspirin, one pill a day, more punctual than the sick people eat, the result of these two days has been saying bloating abdominal pain, to the hospital a check: diagnosed as gastrointestinal bleeding.
Like this kind of disease rush to take medicine, there are many phenomena of no disease chaotic medical treatment, the right use of medicine is a life-saving drug, the wrong use will not only not save lives, but also lead to various side effects. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the drug sufficiently before taking the drug.
How to use aspirin, quick-acting heart-saving pills and nitroglycerin?
1. Nitroglycerin
Nitroglycerin is a vasodilator that can directly dilate arteries, which can effectively reduce the oxygen consumption of the myocardium, improve myocardial perfusion, and alleviate angina caused by coronary heart disease. It is usually taken sublingually, absorbed into the blood and played a role, and cannot be taken orally. When angina attack, sudden chest tightness chest pain, can take 1 tablet of nitroglycerin under the tongue, generally within 3 minutes after taking the effect, if effective, can continue to take, but can take up to 3 tablets, at least 5 minutes apart, and should be treated in the hospital immediately after the symptoms are relieved. It should be kept in a sitting or recumbent position during the administration to avoid postural hypotension, resulting in insufficient cerebral blood supply.
However, many patients like Lao Zhang as nitroglycerin as a universal life-saving drug, no matter what the situation, the first is to take nitroglycerin, which is not right, nitroglycerin is only a drug to relieve angina, only effective for angina caused by coronary heart disease, for acute myocardial infarction or other aspects of chest tightness chest pain has no effect, and even lead to shock, aggravating the disease. Therefore, if there is no effect of taking nitroglycerin, you should stop and go to the hospital in time.
2. Aspirin
Aspirin is a commonly used drug for the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, has the effect of antiplatelet aggregation, has a good effect on reducing the formation of blood clots in the coronary veins, can effectively reduce the incidence and mortality of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, suitable for people who have suffered from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases or high-risk groups of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and generally people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases must take aspirin every day.
Taking time is divided into before and after meals, aspirin tablets are suitable for taking after meals, because they will produce certain irritation to the gastrointestinal tract, taking after meals can reduce the stimulation of the stomach and intestines, and enteric-coated tablets can be taken on an empty stomach before meals, which is convenient for the tablets to quickly reach the intestine through the stomach and play an enteric-coated role. For people who themselves suffer from gastrointestinal disorders, they should be taken according to the advice of a doctor, and the optimal dose of aspirin taken per day is 75-150 mg.
However, for ordinary people, healthy and suffer from low incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, it is not recommended to take aspirin to prevent diseases, long-term use of aspirin is not only no benefit, but also prone to gastrointestinal bleeding, stomach ulcers and a series of side effects, more than worth the loss.
3. Quick-acting heart-saving pills
Quick-acting heart-saving pills are also a well-known drug, and nitroglycerin, for the relief of coronary heart disease and angina has a good effect, but the difference between them is: quick-acting heart-saving pills belong to traditional Chinese medicine, its main ingredients are Sichuan root and ice chips, nitroglycerin is Western medicine, the main role is to dilate blood vessels, and the role of quick-acting heart-saving pills is to activate blood stasis.
Therefore, the quick-acting heart-saving pill can not only alleviate the angina caused by coronary heart disease, but also have a certain effect on chest tightness and chest pain caused by other causes, but for typical coronary heart disease, the effect of nitroglycerin will be faster and the effect will be better.