Many people must not have imagined that a 23-year-old young man is usually in good health, but because of stomach pain, he has no vital signs when he is sent to the hospital for rescue.
The family can't accept it, the young man also has stomach pain for a few days, he took some stomach medicine, how can a stomach pain die?
In fact, more than 1/3 of the heart attack patients in mainland China have these atypical pains.
Stomach pain may be a heart attack
Although it was a stomach pain, it was not in the stomach at all. After the doctor's understanding, the young man had stomach pain, asthma before his death, combined with the examination of troponin, it was found that he lost his life due to an atypical myocardial infarction, and the drugs he had taken before to treat stomach pain did not play any role at all.
Typical myocardial infarction will have pressure pain in the back of the sternum, knife-like pain, and will also be accompanied by nausea, irritability, sweating, feeling of imminent death, and so on.
Atypical myocardial infarction is the location of the pain is atypical, it may be toothache, sore throat, stomach pain, back pain, shoulder pain and so on. The location of the pain varies from person to person, so many people don't think that these pains may be myocardial infarction.
Some pain in the body cannot be ignored
toothache
Generally, the location of this toothache is uncertain, it cannot be specific to a single tooth, and the doctor cannot check the diseased tooth, and taking painkillers cannot relieve the toothache.
And this toothache often has a cause before the onset, such as strenuous exercise, emotional agitation, overeating, etc. Therefore, toothache caused by heart disease is also called cardiogenic toothache.
gastralgia
Atypical myocardial infarction will also have some gastrointestinal symptoms, such as stomach pain, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, etc., may appear after the patient is emotionally agitated or after strenuous exercise, if the patient is usually in good physical condition, these symptoms often do not think of a myocardial infarction.
Pain in the left shoulder
Atypical myocardial infarction will also cause pain due to ischemia in the limbs, such as numbness and pain in the limbs, which will generally be biased to the left, such as pain in the left shoulder and arm, foot numbness, etc.
Therefore, these toothaches, stomach pains, left shoulder pain, back pain, etc., can not be relieved, be sure to seek medical treatment in time, do not miss the best time for treatment.
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