How to relieve an attack of angina pectoris at home: taking Nitroglycerin, folk recipes

Acute chest pain is a frequent companion of coronary heart disease and atherosclerotic coronary artery disease. The main reason for this condition is the discrepancy between the demand for oxygen in the myocardium and its real amount that gets to the cardiomyocytes with blood. Therefore, all patients and their immediate relatives suffering from pathologies of the cardiovascular system, you should know how to relieve an angina attack at home.

This is necessary to help the patient before the ambulance arrives, in addition, correct actions in most cases can save a person from serious complications.

There are several types of this disease:

• Exertional angina (stable and progressive). Symptoms usually occur on the background of intense physical activity, in a stressful situation, during sex. In severe cases, the attack begins after the usual climb up the stairs or with a sharp temperature drop.
• Rest angina. It manifests itself already against the background of far-reaching diseases of the cardiovascular system, with constantly high blood pressure, aortic stenosis, atherosclerotic growths, narrowing the lumen of the coronary vessels. The onset of an attack is difficult to predict, symptoms occur abruptly, at any time of the day, although more often it happens at night.

Without emergency treatment, cardiac muscle hypoxia progresses, which is highly likely to result in acute myocardial infarction.

You can recognize an attack of angina pectoris by the following symptoms:

• Pain. It has a sharp, diffuse character, is localized behind the chest and radiates to the left arm, leg, lower jaw. The sensations are so strong that the patient has to take a forced position, bending and pressing his hand to his chest.
• Dyspnea. The feeling of lack of air forces the patient to breathe more deeply, but trying to take a deep breath only makes the chest pain worse.
• Tachycardia, a feeling of "fluttering" of the heart behind the sternum, pulsation "gives" to the ears.
• Numbness of the fingers, often they acquire a bluish tint.
• Pallor.
• Discharge of cold, clammy sweat.
• Low or, conversely, high blood pressure.

The risk of developing a stable and progressive form of the disease increases with smoking, alcohol consumption, diabetes mellitus, overweight, increased blood clotting and physical inactivity.

In addition, doctors note that angina attacks are more common in males.

For the traditional drug treatment of the disease, doctors offer a number of drugs:

• anticoagulants, the most common are acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin), Clopidogrel, Marcumar;
• β-blockers (Anaprilin, Betalol, Nebivolol, Egilok), are prescribed to almost all patients with coronary heart disease;
• lipid-lowering agents (Rosuvastatin, Tulip, Nicotinic acid, Lipanor, Exlip) stop the progression of atherosclerosis, lowering the level of cholesterol and low-density lipoproteins;
• ACE inhibitors (Anaprilin, Lisinopril, Captopril) are an alternative to β-blockers, but are sometimes prescribed in combination with them;
• calcium antagonists (Verapamil, Diltiazem) are often used for angina pectoris with intolerance to nitrates, in a post-infarction state.

However, despite the variety of drugs offered for the treatment of the disease, many people prefer to relieve an angina attack at home. For this purpose, hawthorn tincture is widely used, which is repeatedly mentioned in the programs of Elena Malysheva, folk recipes based on garlic and medicinal plants.

But before taking various alternative medicine, it is necessary to stop the main symptoms of an angina attack.

To do this, you should:

1. Stop any physical exercise.
2. Sit in a comfortable chair.
3. Drink drugs from the nitrate group.
4. Open the window to provide fresh air.
5. Remove tight clothing from neck, abdomen and chest.

Many people recommend massage of reflex points on the neck, knees, wrist and shoulder joints. If later 5-10 minutes after trying to relieve an attack of angina pectoris at home, the patient's condition does not improve, it is necessary to call an ambulance, but even relief of symptoms is not a reason to postpone a visit to to the doctor.

How to treat angina pectoris at home: folk remedies, features of taking Nitroglycerin

Nitroglycerin, the main remedy for how to treat angina pectoris at home, refers to pharmacological drugs from the group of nitrates. Its mechanism of action is the release of nitric oxide. It relaxes the muscles of the vascular wall, reduces the load on the myocardium and its oxygen demand. In addition, nitrates relieve spasm of the coronary arteries of the heart.

A feature of Nitroglycerin is its rapid absorption from the mucous membranes, therefore it is recommended to take it in the form of tablets sublingually (that is, under the tongue) or in the form of an aerosol.

Currently, there are several types of this drug:

• short-acting (also called "normal") is used only to relieve angina attacks;
• prolonged, used to prevent attacks of pain behind the breastbone.

Nitroglycerin can be taken in several ways:

• 1% alcohol solution. Apply 1-2 drops under the tongue or on a piece of sugar, only it is not swallowed, but kept in the mouth until it is completely dissolved. Also, such a drug is used for mild angina pectoris in combination with menthol, tincture of lily of the valley and belladonna (Votchal drops).
• Pills 0.25-1 mg. Place under the tongue and hold until dissolved.
• Oily 1% solution of nitroglycerin in capsules containing 0.5 or 1 mg of the drug. The method of application is the same as for tablets, only the capsule can be pre-crushed with teeth.
• Spray can. Spray into the oral cavity, in a sitting position, by 1-2 doses (but not more than 3) within 15 minutes. One dose contains 0.4 mg of nitroglycerin.

Nitrates, including nitroglycerineare quickly addictive. For this reason, they cannot be used continuously to treat angina at home. Often, after taking the medicine, a headache appears, which is relieved with conventional pain relievers.

Alternative medicine recipes offer the following ways to combat the disease:

• Add 10 ml of 9% vinegar, 12 stems with ordinary garden parsley leaves to a saucepan with 1 liter of homemade red sweet wine and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, remove foam and add 250 g of may honey, then heat again over low heat for 5 minutes. Then cool, strain, bottle and store in the refrigerator. Take 2 tbsp. twice a day.
• Crush a head of garlic, pour a glass of unrefined sunflower oil, leave for 24 hours. Take 1 tsp, mixing with the same amount of lemon juice on an empty stomach.
• Combine the adonis herb, lavender flowers and rosemary leaves in equal proportions. 1 tsp collection, pour a glass of boiling water and leave for half an hour. Take 100 ml twice a day. In parallel, eat 4 tablespoons. peeled pumpkin seeds per day.
• Prepare a mixture of the following medicinal plants: spring comic plant, gray jaundice, mountain arnica, European arnica, fragrant rue. Pour 15 g of collection with 500 ml of hot water and leave for an hour. Strain and take half a glass with the addition of 0.5 tsp. honey three times a day for a month, then take a break for 2 weeks, and then repeat the decoction for another 10 days. Such courses of treatment are recommended to be carried out twice a year - in autumn and spring. In parallel, it is advised to take 0.2 g of mummy in the morning on an empty stomach.
• Eat 1 tablespoon each. the pulp of feijoa berries half an hour before meals in the morning and evening.
• Peel and grate 1 kg of celery roots, add 100 g of chopped horseradish rhizomes and cloves of garlic each and 2 lemons, ground in a meat grinder. Let the mixture stand for exactly one day, then take 1 tbsp. three times a day. With increased acidity of the stomach, this amount is halved.

There are quite a few ways how to treat angina pectoris at home. However, the best result can be achieved by combining them with classical methods of drug therapy. In addition, one should not forget that a patient with diseases of the cardiovascular system should be regularly examined by a cardiologist.