Cardiac arrhythmia is a heart disease that occurs in both adults and children and adolescents. There are various methods of treating a disease in a hospital, but arrhythmia can be treated at home.
It is congenital (with congenital heart defects) and acquired, resulting from various adverse factors. Arrhythmia of the heart is divided into bradycardia, tachycardia, extrasystole, atrial fibrillation and heart block. Most often, patients have atrial fibrillation.
What it is?
In older people after 75 years, atrial fibrillation is more often diagnosed, 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.
The following symptoms occur during an attack: pain in the heart, tachycardia, weakness, sweating. There is a feeling of nervousness, anxiety and fear. There are more serious signs of arrhythmia: frequent urination, dizziness and fainting.
How is cardiac arrhythmia treated correctly? The treatment methods are diverse. Atrial fibrillation, like other types, is treated conservatively and promptly. Conservative methods include pharmacological therapy and treatment of arrhythmias with folk remedies. Surgery is resorted to in the most extreme cases.
Arrhythmia. Treatment. Preparations
Proper treatment can be prescribed only 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 this, drugs are prescribed to prevent thrombosis, stroke, myocardial infarction, as well as drugs to stop heart rate. These include potassium antagonists, beta-blockers, antiarrhythmics, etc.
Alternative treatment of atrial fibrillation has recently been very popular. Its effectiveness ranges from 40-50%. Doctors, along with drugs, are increasingly advised to use alternative treatment for cardiac arrhythmias.
In the first place among folk remedies are decoctions of dill seeds and viburnum berries, as well as tinctures from hawthorn and yarrow. With the help of these decoctions, arrhythmias are treated at home.
How to cook a decoction?
In order for viburnum to “give away” all the useful substances, in no case should you boil the berries for a long time. Dry berries are poured with boiling water at the rate of 2 glasses of water per 1 glass 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 evening for 1/2 cup at a time.
Preparing a decoction of dill seeds is very simple. You can’t boil it. It is necessary 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 a yarrow infusion, you will need to collect fresh grass, chop it finely and put it in a bottle. It is best to take a 1 liter bottle. Pour the grass with alcohol and leave the bottle in a dry, dark place for 10 days. For the prevention of cardiac arrhythmias, take a tincture of 1 teaspoon 2 times a day before breakfast and lunch.
When arrhythmias are treated with folk remedies, patient reviews are usually positive.
Herbs for Heart Treatment
Sedative, sedative fees are sold in every pharmacy, but they can be done on their own. Soothing herbs include: mint, chamomile, yarrow, valerian, rosehip, lemon balm, blue cornflower flowers, horsetail grass and many others.
When making infusions and decoctions, you should not mix more than 2-3 herbs, and some, such as motherwort, valerian, lemon balm and dogrose, must be steamed with boiling water separately from each other.
To prepare an infusion of blue cornflower, 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, since useful properties will disappear. After cooling down, drink one third 10 minutes before eating.
To prepare the infusion of arrow, 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 arrow opened and let the herb stand for 12 hours, then strain. You need to do this at night, so that in the morning, before eating, drink liquid. Drink 1/3 cup before breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Supplements for arrhythmia
Recently, pharmacologists have found many complex treatment drugs, with the use of which even such a formidable disease as arrhythmia recedes in the early stages. Alternative treatment and therapy with biologically active additives are becoming very popular among the population. Now in any pharmacy you can freely buy the drug without a doctor’s prescription.
Taking dietary supplements, everyone should understand that this is a vitamin food supplement that cannot cure the disease 100%. In no case can they replace the medicines 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. It is very difficult to make the correct diagnosis, relying only on the symptoms.
The child develops weakness, fatigue, shortness of breath, palpitations, pallor of the skin. In severe cases, fainting. The diagnosis is made after a physical examination and recording data on an ECG tape, daily monitoring, stress tests and other studies.
Massage - as a treatment for arrhythmia
Treatment of arrhythmias at home in children and adolescents can be carried out using massage. For example, acupressure feet.
Reflexology is the most affordable treatment for the disease. To feel the maximum effect, massage is done several times a day. First you need to warm your legs in a warm foot bath for several minutes and then massage your 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 place of the fold of the thumb and, stepping back from the middle finger a few centimeters down, find 3 point. For massage to be effective, you need to massage the area of the heart, solar plexus and brain (forehead).
This massage helps calm the central nervous system in adults.
Arrhythmia treatment. Reviews
A large number of positive reviews leave patients after surgery. Surgical 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 valve disease, and more.
Operational methods include radiofrequency ablation and staging of a pacemaker.
What is radiofrequency ablation? The purpose of this procedure is to create a blockade on a specific area of the heart muscle. It is the burning of 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.
The implantation of a pacemaker is carried out so that the patient’s heart is contracting at a certain frequency. There are single-chamber, two-chamber and three-chamber pacemakers that are able to answer for 1, 2 and, respectively, 3 cardiac chambers.
Folk remedies for children
Treatment of arrhythmias with folk remedies in children involves taking various decoctions, tinctures, herbal teas and vitamin mixtures. All of these tools can be prepared at home.
It is useful 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 the 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 it overnight in the room. Stir in the morning and refrigerate. Every day, before breakfast, eat a tablespoon of adults and a teaspoon of children. This tool is very good at boosting immunity.
Arrhythmia Prevention
To limit attacks of cardiac arrhythmia, it is very important to take measures to prevent the disease. First of all - to lose weight. When overweight, 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 is disturbed in the body.
Nutrition must be proper and rational. In your daily diet, it is very important to include fruits and vegetables, as well as cereals and dairy products. It is necessary to refuse coffee, strong tea, fatty foods, sweets, especially chocolate and flour.
You can never, independently, without consulting a doctor, stop taking the prescribed medications or reduce their dosage. Many patients, feeling better, try not to drink medicine, which is absolutely not right. A person begins to feel good precisely against the background of the treatment.
The treatment of arrhythmias at home and its prevention involve the use of special therapeutic exercises.
The main set of exercises
1. To stand straight, putting the heels together, toe apart the socks. Raise both hands up through the sides and lower your hands along the body. Do the exercise slowly, gradually increasing the pace of movements.
2. Leave the legs in the same position. Clench your fists and put your hands on your shoulders. Raise your right hand up and unclench your fist, lower your hand to your shoulder and clench your fist. Do it with your left hand.
3. To spread legs to the sides, putting them wider than the width of the shoulders. Put your hands on your belt. Bend the leg at the knee and pull the knee toward the sternum. Lower and straighten the 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. During inhalation, raise your legs and pull your knees to your chest, while exhaling lower your legs.
6. Raise your leg up and stretch your 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 for a few seconds in this position, then straighten and relax.
Arrhythmia emergency
If a person becomes ill and the symptom is cardiac arrhythmia, it is necessary to provide quick and clear help. First of all, it is important to reassure the patient and lay him horizontally (on a bed or floor). Open the collar and open the windows and doors for fresh air. Before the doctor arrives, you can give Corvalol or motherwort (simple sedatives). Rub the patient's foot and the solar plexus. If this does not help, you can induce vomiting (with your fingers).
Before the ambulance arrives, cardiac arrest may occur, therefore, people who are close to the patient should be able to perform an indirect heart massage.
These methods can help stop a heart attack.