Holidays are the season of festivities and great food. With overeating people often experience heartburn. Amazingly (and alarmingly), the symptoms of a severe heartburn can be strikingly similar to the symptoms of a heart attack That is why it is important to know the signs and be able to differentiate heart attack from having a heart burn.
Here are some symptoms that indicate heart attack according to Dr Nick Zenarosa, emergency medicine physician on the medical staff at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas:
- Breaking into a cold sweat
- Pain moving from the chest into the jaw, shoulder or arms
- Increased pain when you exert yourself
- Rapid onset of fatigue
- Shortness of breath
- Turning pale
- Slow or no response of symptoms to antacids
- Nausea and possible vomiting
If you are experiencing any of the signs mentioned above it is better to go to a nearby Emergency Room or hospital for medical assistance. With heart attack, time is very crucial. It is important that clot-busting drugs and other artery opening treatments are started right away for greater chances of survival
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