Cardiac arrhythmia is a heart disease that occurs in both adults and children and adolescents. There are various methods of treating the disease in a hospital, but you can treat an arrhythmia at home.
It can be congenital (with congenital heart defects) and acquired, resulting from various adverse factors. Cardiac arrhythmia is divided into bradycardia, tachycardia, extrasystole, atrial fibrillation and heart block. The most common in patients is atrial fibrillation.
What is this?
Atrial fibrillation is more often diagnosed in older people after 75 years of age, the symptoms and treatment of which are similar to other types of the disease. Interestingly, men are 2 times more likely to get sick than women. Scientists explain this by the different physiological structure of the body of a man and a woman.
When an attack occurs, the following symptoms occur: pain in the heart, tachycardia, weakness, sweating. There is a feeling of nervousness, anxiety and fear. There are also more serioussigns of arrhythmia: frequent urination, dizziness and fainting.
How is cardiac arrhythmia treated? Treatment methods are varied. Atrial fibrillation, like other types, is treated conservatively and promptly. Conservative methods include therapy with pharmacological drugs and the treatment of arrhythmia with folk remedies. Surgical interventions are resorted to in the most extreme cases.
Arrhythmia. Treatment. Drugs
Proper treatment can only be prescribed by a doctor with a full examination of the patient. After confirming the diagnosis, the lightest drugs (antiarrhythmic) are prescribed, which can stop the attack at the earliest stages of the disease.
After that, drugs are prescribed to prevent thrombosis, stroke, myocardial infarction, as well as drugs to stop the heart rate. These include potassium antagonists, beta-blockers, antiarrhythmics, etc.
National treatment of atrial fibrillation has recently been very popular. Its efficiency ranges from 40-50%. Doctors, along with medications, are increasingly recommending the use of alternative treatment for cardiac arrhythmias.
In the first place among folk remedies are decoctions of dill seeds and viburnum berries, as well as tinctures of hawthorn and yarrow. With the help of these decoctions, arrhythmia is treated at home.
How to prepare a decoction?
In order for the viburnum to “give away” all the useful substances, in no case should the berries be boiled for a long time. Dry berries are poured with boiling water at the rate of 2 cups of water per 1 cup of berries and put on fire. After about 5-7 minutes, the fire is turned off and covered with a lid. When the broth has cooled, you can drink it. Take viburnum in the morning and in the evening, 1/2 cup at a time.
Preparing a decoction of dill seeds is very simple. You cannot boil it. You need to take 1/3 cup of seeds and pour boiling water. Leave for 20 minutes, then strain and drink 1/3 cup before the main meal.
To prepare an infusion of yarrow, you will need to collect fresh grass, chop it finely and pour it into a bottle. It is best to take a bottle with a capacity of 1 liter. Pour the grass with alcohol and leave the bottle in a dry, dark place for 10 days. To prevent cardiac arrhythmia, take tincture 1 teaspoon 2 times a day before breakfast and lunch.
When arrhythmia is treated with folk remedies, feedback from patients is usually positive.
Herbs for the treatment of the heart
Sedative, sedative fees are sold in every pharmacy, but you can make them yourself. Soothing herbs include: mint, chamomile, yarrow, valerian, rosehip, lemon balm, blue cornflower flowers, horsetail grass and many others.
When making infusions and decoctions, you can not mix more than 2-3 herbs, and some, such as motherwort, valerian, lemon balm and wild rose, need to be steamed with boiling water separately from each other.
To prepare an infusion of cornflowerblue, you need to take 2 teaspoons of cornflower and pour it with a glass of boiling water. It is impossible to cook grass on fire, as useful properties will disappear. After cooling, drink one third 10 minutes before eating.
To prepare an infusion of urchin, which is taken every day for several weeks to regulate the activity of the heart, you need to pour a glass of cold water 2 teaspoons of the urchin opened and let the herb brew for 12 hours, then strain. This should be done at night so that in the morning, before eating, drink liquid. Drink 1/3 cup before breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Dietary supplements for arrhythmias
Recently, pharmacologists have found many complex treatment drugs, the use of which even such a formidable disease as arrhythmia recedes in the early stages. Alternative treatment and therapy with dietary supplements are gaining immense popularity among the population. Now in any pharmacy you can freely buy the drug without a doctor's prescription.
When taking dietary supplements, everyone should understand that this is a vitamin food supplement that cannot cure the disease by 100%. In no case should they replace drugs prescribed by a doctor, because the consequences of this step are unpredictable, and the effect of taking them is felt only with complex treatment.
Child and disease
Often in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology there are children who are diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, the symptoms and treatment of which in children and adolescents are uncertain. Making a correct diagnosis based on symptoms alone is verydifficult.
The child develops weakness, fatigue, shortness of breath, palpitations, pallor of the skin. In severe cases, fainting. The diagnosis is made after a medical examination and recording data on the ECG tape, daily monitoring, stress tests and other studies.
Massage as a treatment for arrhythmias
Treatment of arrhythmia at home in children and adolescents can be done with massage. For example, acupressure of the feet.
Reflexology is the most affordable method of treating illness. To feel the maximum effect, massage is done several times a day. First you need to warm up the legs in a warm foot bath for several minutes and then massage the legs and feet so that the muscles warm up (the vessels expand and the blood begins to circulate faster).
For treatment, it is necessary to press on 3 points: the base of the thumb, the bend of the thumb and, stepping back from the middle finger a few centimeters down, find the 3rd point. For the massage to be effective, you need to massage the area of the heart, solar plexus and brain (forehead area).
This massage helps to calm the central nervous system in adults.
Arrhythmia treatment. Reviews
A large number of positive reviews are left by patients after surgery. The surgical method of treatment is used only in 10–15% of patients. Only in cases where there is a serious concomitant heart disease: heart disease, ventricular aneurysm, heart diseaseheart valves and more.
Surgical options include radiofrequency ablation and pacemaker insertion.
What is radiofrequency ablation? The purpose of this procedure is to create a blockade in a certain area of \u200b\u200bthe heart muscle. It involves cauterizing a very small part of the heart with a catheter. In the place where there will be cauterization, there will be a blockade of the electrical impulse. This manipulation makes it possible to permanently get rid of cardiac arrhythmias.
Implantation of a pacemaker is carried out in order for the patient's heart to contract at a certain frequency. There are single-chamber, dual-chamber and three-chamber pacemakers that are capable of responding to 1, 2 and, respectively, 3 cardiac chambers.
Folk remedies for children
Treatment of arrhythmia with folk remedies in children involves taking various decoctions, tinctures, herbal teas and vitamin mixtures. All of these remedies can be prepared at home.
It is good for children to eat 1 teaspoon of honey every day. Many people like a mixture of honey and black radish, prepared in a 1: 1 ratio (you can take 1 tablespoon of honey and 1 tablespoon of radish juice).
To prepare a vitamin mixture, you will need 500 grams of lemon twisted in a meat grinder or crushed in a blender, 500 grams of honey and 20 apricot kernels without peel, which also need to be ground. Mix the resulting mass and leave overnight in the room. Stir in the morning and refrigerate the mixture. Eachday, before breakfast, eat a tablespoon for adults and a teaspoon for children. This remedy is very good at boosting immunity.
Arrhythmia prevention
To limit the attacks of cardiac arrhythmia, it is very important to take measures to prevent the disease. First of all, lose weight. With excess body weight, blood sugar levels increase and cholesterol plaques appear. Due to this, the blood flow through the vessels slows down and, as a result, its circulation throughout the body is disturbed.
Food should be right and rational. It is very important to include fruits and vegetables, as well as cereals and dairy products in your daily diet. It is necessary to give up coffee, strong tea, fatty foods, sweets, especially chocolate and flour.
You should never stop taking prescribed medications or reduce their dosage without consulting a doctor. Many patients, feeling better, try not to take medicines, which is absolutely wrong. A person begins to feel good precisely against the background of the treatment.
Treatment of arrhythmia at home and its prevention involve the use of special therapeutic exercises.
Main set of exercises
1. Stand straight with your heels together, toes apart. Raise both arms up through the sides and lower the arms along the body. Do the exercise slowly, gradually increasing the pace of movements.
2. Leave your legs in the same position. Clench your fists and place your hands on your shoulders. Raise your right hand up and open your fist, lower your hand to your shoulder and squeezefist. Do the same with your left hand.
3. Spread your legs apart, placing them wider than shoulder width. Put your hands on your belt. Bend the leg at the knee and pull the knee towards the sternum. Lower and straighten your leg. Do the same exercise with your left foot.
4. Do squats with your hands on your belt.
5. Lie on your back. Lower your arms along the body, bend your legs at the knees and lower them to your feet. While inhaling, raise your legs and pull your knees to your chest, while exhaling, lower your legs.
6. Raise your leg up and stretch with the opposite hand to the toe. Do the same exercise with the opposite arm and leg.
7. Raise both legs up and reach for the socks with both hands, while raising the head, shoulders, shoulder blades. Hold this position for a few seconds, then straighten up and relax.
Arrhythmia Emergency Care
If a person becomes ill and, according to the symptoms, this is a cardiac arrhythmia, it is necessary to provide quick and clear assistance. First of all, it is important to calm the patient and lay him horizontally (on the bed or on the floor). Open collar and open windows and doors for fresh air. Before the doctor arrives, you can give Corvalol or motherwort (simple sedatives) to take. Rub the patient's feet and the solar plexus area. If this does not help, you can induce vomiting (with your fingers).
Prior to the arrival of an ambulance, cardiac arrest may occur, so people near the patient should be able to perform chest compressions.
Theseways to help stop a heart attack.
