Life after heart attack.
Many patients with myocardial infarction interest allowable level of physical activity. You can make daily walks at an average pace for a distance of 1 – 2 km should not do so only in frosty and windy days. Your limitation will be the harbingers of angina pectoris: heart rate, shortness of breath and fatigue. The start time and the amount of physical exercise should identify the doctor, as this depends on the type and nature of myocardial flow postinfarction period (but not earlier than one month!).
Heart attack
In addition to movements are necessary positive emotions. Many patients after a heart attack back to their work or alter it. If you are not allowed to work – find yourself something to do at home.
An important component of postinfarction treatment is compliance diet. The patient and family should know that in the first days after a heart attack, taking into account the patient’s bed rest, dietary energy should not exceed 2, 000 kcal, and in the first 2 – 3 days and less. In order to avoid even a slight fullness and pressure on the heart, food, especially early in the disease, we must take at least 7 – 8 times a day.
It is also necessary to exclude foods that cause flatulence because of the increased gas production (fresh bread, millet, beans, milk, cabbage, cucumbers, grape juice, and carbonated drinks). Avoid sugar from the diet, replacing it with honey. Gradually – to the extent of recovery – the diet is expanding, and eventually you can go to the usual antiatherosclerotic diet, which will seem to stick for life to prevent, to avoid another heart attack.
In some patients, myocardial infarction, atherosclerotic lesions is not only vessels of the heart, but cerebral arteries and vessels of the lower extremities. In the first case there is a risk of stroke. Stroke prevention corresponds to prevent atherosclerosis, particularly to monitor the level of blood pressure and cholesterol. Signs of cerebral arteries: memory loss, headaches, ringing in head.
Thus, those who had a heart attack in the first place should take care of your health; make a program of a healthy lifestyle – to act.