Suffocation

October 7, 2013

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Suffocation   (state asphyxia ) - This is difficulty in breathing person, which manifests itself in his episodic, and yet in the end there is oxygen starvation of body tissues.

How does asthma?

Choking in adults and children is stronger shortness of breath , A feeling of tightness in the chest, the advent of blueness of the skin. Choking sensation painful for a man who scares lack of air and the fear of death. This symptom in children and adults present in different diseases. Reasons suffocation usually consist in the presence of pathologies of the cardiovascular system, the lungs, the airways. If the patient developed pulmonary illness, asthma is due to violation of getting oxygen into the blood and subsequent airway obstruction man. In asthma there is a sharp sense of lack of air, the person strongly pants. Bronchial asthma - A serious illness, because breathing is a basic human need. Consequently, the breathing problems are a kind of signal of serious risk, and the person is seriously fear death. This can dry cough. After coughing and asthma attacks are not worried sick

Constant feeling of suffocation in the neck and chest may occur after exercise. In this case, choking is a signal lack of oxygen in the respiratory and circulatory system.

If a person appears choking at night, he suffered from cyanosis, the patient's skin is covered with sticky sweat, sometimes present tachycardia . Tapped as wheezing in the lungs. In most cases, people who suffer from nocturnal attacks of breathlessness, there is increased venous pressure, liver enlargement, and other symptoms of heart failure.

What causes asthma?

To take all measures to get rid of the unpleasant symptoms, you must clearly know exactly what causes breathlessness take place in the case. If symptoms of choking, especially, should be suspected development asthma . pneumonia . chronic bronchitis . emphysema . tumors of the bronchus , Inhalation of foreign bodies. Asthma is more common among young people and middle-aged people.

Status suffocation manifested in a number of diseases of the cardiovascular system. It myocardial infarction . hypertension and hypotension . cardiosclerosis . aortic regurgitation . heart disease . arrhythmia . cerebral hemorrhage and etc.

The feeling of suffocation accompanied by some mental disease. Suffocation can accompany   reactive psychosis . claustrophobia . paranoia et al. This symptom is manifested, under certain general conditions - when gangrene . sepsis and etc.

To provoke suffocation can and some external negative factors. This overdose of narcotic drugs, poisoning with ethyl alcohol, pairs of different toxic substances. This symptom characteristic of certain types of allergy.

Choking night a person can occur due to too much filling the lungs with blood. This occurs due to the change the tone of the autonomic nervous system. Choking during sleep, most people carry heavy.

Choking sensation in the throat sometimes appears as a consequence of the high sensitivity of the esophagus, disorders of muscle activity. The feeling of suffocation in the throat may occur due to the high sensitivity of the esophagus. The reasons for manifestation of such symptoms can be to experience strong emotional turmoil, rapid breathing, anxiety. That is a lump in the throat often occurs in the nervous system. Spasms in throat most often occur in those who are experiencing prolonged stress.

Do not write off other factors that can cause similar symptoms. It may be physiological throat problems, abnormalities in the thyroid gland. The symptoms of suffocation in the throat, in some cases also appear due to diseases associated with the pathology of the spine. Sore throat and symptoms of suffocation in the throat occur in the esophagus injuries. Treatment is prescribed only after the establishment of an accurate diagnosis.

Asphyxiation can occur when acute nephritis . It most often occurs in the elderly. Sometimes choking in this case, taken as a manifestation of a hypertensive crisis or a heart attack. However, in myocardial infarction suffocation can also occur as a symptom of the disease.

How to get rid of choking?

In most cases, asthma attack seen in humans is the medical establishment. Therefore, a special pre-medical aid for choking. Therefore, knowledge of the basic principles of this assistance may be useful to everyone. Assisting with asthma primarily involves facilitating the process of breathing. It is important to reassure the man who started the attack. Emergency aid for choking is after the man was moved to a sitting position. You should always provide a good supply of fresh air. To the feet and hands applied warmers, leg of the patient can be dropped into hot water. On the chest or on the back under the shoulder blades put mustard. If it is a pre-hospital care for asthma, the patient can be given one tablet inside eufilllina and ephedrine .

First aid for choking in contact with foreign bodies in the respiratory system is carried out just as drowning. It is important that first aid was provided without panic, quickly and correctly. To remove a foreign body from the larynx of man, it is necessary to compress the chest. At a pressure of a foreign object is pushed into the airways. First aid for choking, provoked by ingestion of a foreign body, then turns out to be as follows: the victim needs help to lean forward and cough. When fainting victim should be put on the knee stomach to prevent flooding vomit. If a foreign body inhaled child raised his legs up and pats on the back, the baby coughed.

After the patient was given first aid, it needs to be delivered to a medical facility. After breathing restored, appointed reception antibiotics to prevent pneumonia.

If dyspnea is due to allergic swelling, you must give the patient diphenhydramine . suprastin or tavegil . Also given quarter cup of a 10% solution calcium gluconate   or calcium chloride . In the absence of positive changes introduced by intramuscular injection of 2 ml prednisolone .

If the patient's asthma disturbed at night provoked asthma, the nighttime attacks are treated with drugs that relieve bronchospasm. It ephedrine . Teofedrin . antasman , You need to take them orally. Asthma attacks in bronchial asthma and removed with the help of aerosols, and inhalers. However, in this case it is important to provide the necessary degree of inhalation to relieve a sudden attack.

First aid for asthma attacks, trigger asthma, and may be provided by applying a heating pad to the hand and foot, to ensure the inflow of venous leg of the patient can be dropped into hot water. Asthma symptoms become less pronounced.

Emergency aid a person who has manifested a sudden attack of asthma and cough, may be provided through a massage of the upper body. It should be massaged from head down the back and chest.

If the question is how to remove the attack, and at the same time you do not have the necessary medication, emergency care during a fit may be provided with the help of some improvised. You can give the patient to smell ammonia, give it to swallow small pieces of ice. Phlegm in a fit helps valerian tincture, soda. If the attack can not be removed by yourself, be sure to call emergency medical care.