Fainting — causes and first aid





Appears the ringing in your ears, flies before the eyes, nausea, dizziness, severe perspiration, hands cold, legs weak and your brain shuts down to give the body to recover. The causes of syncope , many consider the most typical.

Anemia

Fainting may be caused by sudden decompression, for example, when you try to abruptly get out of bed, when accelerated walk, active physical activities. There is an incredible weakness, in which no strength even to raise his hand, if the heart stops beating and stops, a deep breath does not bring relief, there is no feeling of nausea.

Recommendations. You need to lie down, the head should be held high – this will help avoid fainting. If you are not able to lie down, then sit down and prionitis back to any support, then bend down sharply and strongly shake head.This will cause a rush of blood to the brain and prevent fainting. Drink strong black tea or coffee, or eat something salty.

To avoid fainting due to decompression need to sleep, take regular basis is something of tonic agents, should not be in the sun, take a hot bath, visit bath. In the morning don't get up abruptly from the bed, sit a couple of minutes, then slowly rise.

Drop blood sugar

Fainting may cause a drop in blood sugar due to excessive physical exertion or when the person several hours of not eating and not drinking. There are sinking feeling in my stomach, terrible hunger, weakness, suddenly appearing headache.

Recommendations. Lie down and sit down have a Cup of hot sweet tea, eat something. If this type of fainting happen often, prescribed glucose.

Before intense training for a couple of hours need to eat any of the carbohydrate-protein foods for example lean meat or cheese.

Overvoltage

Overexertion can cause a lack of sleep and rest more than a day, and then have to recover for a few days. Observed a nervous agitation, insomnia, redness of the eyes, swelling in the legs and on the face, a feeling of weakness in the whole body, nausea.

Recommendations. If there is a weakness and dizziness, you should sit down, drink 1-2 tablespoons of cognac or herbal liqueurs. Then it is necessary to go to bed, even if not entirely desirable.

Overheating

Excessive heat often leads to fainting. Because of the strong overheating of disrupted livelihoods of the Central nervous system, expands blood vessels, which can lead to loss of consciousness. Heat stroke can be obtained not only while in the sun, but also from overheating in the bath, sitting by the fireplace. Thus it becomes difficult to breathe, red face, dizziness and headache, increased body temperature.

Recommendations. In such cases it is necessary to provide cooling of the body to pop up out of the bath on the street, overlaid by the packages of frozen products from the freezer, stick your head in the fridge.

Stuffiness

At low levels of oxygen in the air, the body tries to make up for the lack: blood vessels dilate, breathing quickens. But too rapid breathing leads to the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the blood, and the brain is lacking oxygen. The legs become wobbly, there is a noise in my ears and darkness before eyes.

Recommendations. To prevent fainting, immediately leave the stuffy room, or transport, unbutton the collar, give yourself a Pat on the cheeks, RUB your earlobes a few times with your finger, press with force on the groove above the upper lip.

Panic

Loss of consciousness possible from the appearance or description of the blood, surgical procedures, pain of others, even from the kind of shiny surgical instruments or the smell of hospital. The reason is the strong attack of fear or hematophobia (fear of blood).

Starts with a strong attack of vertigo, gradually increasing sense of loss of reality.

Recommendations. Good results in a sharp sense of smell, for example, ammonia. Strain the muscles, make a few vigorous movements of the hands and feet, shake the head to cause a uniform motion of blood through the vessels. Alternately squeeze the thumbs and little fingers on the hands, take vigorous massage of the occipital mounds, rubbing them in a circular motion from the center to the sides. published

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