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Experiencing Frequent Chest Pain Is Abnormal: Common Causes of Chest Pain

InnoHEALTH magazine digital team — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 07:41:00 +0000

Muscle soreness can affect every part of your body, including the chest muscles, especially when they are inflamed.

Sometimes you might feel a pressure or burning sensation in your chest, or other types of general uncomfortable situations that will indicate something is not right. Experiencing chest pain rarely is nothing to be afraid of as it might be an indication of improper digestion. However, when the feeling becomes frequent, you need to take precautionary measures. Numerous causes are associated with chest pain and it’s advised to seek immediate medical health if the sensation becomes too hard to bear.

While chest pain is an indication of heart problems, other internal organs in your body can also be the cause for the pain. Despite the causes, you need to be aware of the symptoms. The generic causes of chest pain include:

Heart-Related Causes

Heart issues are the primary cause of severe and mild chest pain. Over 15% of adults in the United States suffer from Coronary Artery disease, which is a common heart disease. When you have this heart disease, blood won’t be able to flow into your heart properly. An insufficient supply of blood in the heart can make you feel a sharp chest pain known as angina. This pain can spread from your heart to your arms, back, and other body parts.

Most people associate heart attacks when they experience even minor symptoms of chest pain. When your body suffers a heart attack, blood could not reach your heart. You will feel your chest being squeezed or crushed. If you feel any type of chest pain, call 911 immediately.

Lung-Related Causes

Lung pain is closely associated with chest pain. Pleurisy is a common case when a thin membrane will cover your entire lungs and make them inflamed. When you develop pleurisy inflammation, you will feel tenderness and sharp pain when taking deep breaths or coughing. This sheer pain in your chest might get worsened over time, especially if you don’t consider treatments.

Some pains associated with your lungs will require immediate medical attention. Pulmonary embolism is one of the most common causes. This situation takes place when one lung’s arteries form a blood clot. Problems in breathing along with sheer burning sensations in your chest are the symptoms.

Muscle-Related Causes

If you have been exercising at the gym before, you will know the feeling of muscle soreness. Muscle soreness can affect every part of your body, including the chest muscles, especially when they are inflamed. Trauma can also affect the chest muscles, causing chest pain or a burning sensation. Lifting heavy weights incorrectly and coughing vigorously can also cause chest pain. As per Everyday Health, muscle soreness is normal after light weights.

Stress-Related Causes

When you’re stressed about something, feeling extremely worried, vulnerable, and restless is normal. However, depending on your stress level, your mental health conditions will go through massive changes. These negative emotions will create a feeling of tightness in your chest, which will prevent you from breathing properly.

To summarise we can understand that chest pain can take place in the upper section of your body for various reasons, including heart and lung problems. It can also spread to other parts of the body quickly. You should always take symptoms of chest pain seriously and seek medical attention.

“Composed by: Kristen Smith is a Social Media Expert. She is passionate about new technology & gadgets. She shares her tips on business & marketing.”

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Mucormycosis debunked

InnoHEALTH magazine digital team — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:18:17 +0000

Mucor mycosis the so-called black fungus infection. Which were found even before the Covid pandemic but the incidence was very low and infections seemed to be very low with patients with diabetes, transplant patients who were injected with immunosuppressant or cancer patients, or can be said that the patients who are on medication for other health problems which makes it difficult for the body to fight the environmental pathogens. But due to Covid and the treatment for Covid infection has led to a rise in the number of people infected with this fungus.

This fungus usually affects the face which is why it is also called Rhino-Orbito-Cerebral Mucormycosis which means that the infection can spread in the inner part of the mouth, nose, the inner orbit of the eye, or also the brain which may cause visual impairment or loss of eyesight.

After knowing what the disease is and how it can affect, let’s come to the symptoms:

Abnormal Black discharge, bleeding from the nose
Nasal blockage
Headache or eye pain
Swelling around the eyes, double vision, redness of the eye, loss of vision
Facial numbness
Difficulty in opening mouth/chewing.
Thrombosis (formation of blood clots from the coagulated blood)
Chest pain

Ways to prevent the black fungus infection:

Monitor Sugar for those who had/have diabetes
Follow Covid guidelines for precaution

NOTE: Medical professionals should avoid using any kind of steroid on patients with other health problems.

This infection is more often to happen if you are infected with Covid, though serious damage can be prevented by early detection of such infection so if a patient finds any of these symptoms they must immediately consult an ENT doctor or ophthalmologist.

“Composed by: Rohan Tandel”

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Skin Patch to Detect ‘Silent’ Heart Attacks

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Fri, 11 May 2018 07:24:37 +0000

The death of his grandfather due to heart attack led Manoj Akash, a class 10th student of Ashok Leyland School in Hosur, Karnataka, to invent skin patch which has to be attached to the wrist or the back of the ear and it will release a small ‘positive’ electrical impulse, which will attract the negatively charged protein released by the heart to signal a heart attack. If the quantity of this protein – FABP3 — is high, the person must seek immediate medical attention.

Since class eight he started visiting the library of the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru – an hour away from his hometown. He could not afford expensive books and journals. Only option left to visit library for this enterprising adolescent who had an extra knack to comprehend complexities of cardiology just because of his penchant for the heart diseases studies. He was chosen for the President’s Innovation Scholar’s In-Residence Programme at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

The 16-year-old says that he investigated a novel concept that could potentially allow patients to detect silent heart attacks by non-invasively sensing the FABP3 biomarker in the bloodstream. ABP3 is a lightweight protein, releases quickly from heart muscle into the bloodstream during a heart attack, and therefore, it is an optimal cardiac diagnostic marker.

According to him, doctors may test a patient’s blood for FABP3. If he or she experiences characteristic symptoms like chest pain. However, not all heart attacks make themselves known through easily noticeable signs. Silent heart attacks, which are becoming increasingly common, are asymptomatic, making them more dangerous than conventional heart attacks.

Patients often “drop dead” while feeling completely normal. This collapse happened to my grandfather on July 3rd, 2015 which served as an impetus for me to find a solution to this problem. In these “silent” cases, doctors are unlikely to administer the crucial FABP3 blood test because there is no visible presentation of symptoms to warrant a diagnostic test. As a result, silent heart attacks go unnoticed.

“I realized that if at-risk patients could test themselves daily for the presence of FABP3 in their blood. They would have higher chances of detecting silent heart attacks as they occur. A method that allows daily self-testing would have to be non-invasive, safe, and easy to use. Ultimately, it would have to involve a transcutaneous blood analysis, which examines the contents of one’s blood without penetrating the skin.

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In searching for ways to tackle this challenging prospect. I examined the various distinguishing characteristics of blood proteins that would allow them to be identified transcutaneously. I found that proteins have distinctive masses and electric charges in blood.

So, I used a model to test whether different magnitudes of charged electricity. When applied to a thin area of skin, would isolate FABP3 from the other blood proteins and attract FABP3 to the capillary walls. My results showed that this is true.

This means that the technique that I investigated can potentially be coupled with transcutaneous UV-protein quantification to non-invasively measure the amount of FABP3 in a patient’s blood and alert him or her of a silent heart attack.”

Help Million Hearts Stay Healthy! Is his web page that narrates his vision.

He was frequenting scientific conventions to further his knowledge in the science field. Internet gave him a lot of insight, he admits Clinical trials for the medical device are on. And it could be approved for a human trial. The product would be fit to be launched in the market after two months of human trial, assuming nothing goes wrong.

“I have already filed for a patent and I would tie up with the department of biotechnology for the trial. I would want the Government of India to take the project instead of selling it to a private company because it is for the public good,” he says on his website.

To monitor, regular use small silicon patch stuck to your wrist or back of your ear. Whether there has been a heart attack instead of waiting for a doctor to prescribe a test.

The patch uses a positively charged electrical impulse to draw negatively charged —protein to the surface; If the amount of FABP3 is high, then the person would need immediate medical attention; Experts recommend to use the device twice a day. The product can soon be in the market. It would cost around R 900, cheaper than a glucometer symptoms at all.

Diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels all put you at risk of a silent heart attack, experts say. Having a silent heart attack puts people at a greater risk of having another heart attack, which could be fatal. Having another heart attack also increases the risk of complications, such as heart failure.

Chest pain, pain in the left arm or shortness is when of breath characterizes a silent heart attack. A silent heart attack may not show symptoms of chest pain and shortness of breath that doesn’t feel heart attack. Akash aims to study cardiology at the country’s premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi.

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