In the summer, bathing has become a daily necessity, but then came some unexpected problems.
A few days ago, Dr. Ding Yahui, deputy chief physician of the Department of Cardiology of Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, sent out a sobering long microblogging “a bucket of water ruined a family”, a bucket of cold water made a family separated from each other from then on!
This is not a story, but a true story around
Dr. Ding said he wrote the long microblog at 5:00 a.m., only three or four hours after the patient’s death was announced. When he wrote it, he had particularly mixed feelings – a bucket of cold water separated two couples from each other ……
The following for Dr. Ding to restore the process of this matter.
After tossing and turning in the emergency room for several hours, he finally returned to the duty room in a helpless and resigned mood.
This is a 53-year-old male patient with myocardial infarction, his family took the trouble to send him from Jiaxing with a last hope, but as soon as he got off the emergency vehicle, he was dead. The medical staff in the emergency room was very helpful and professional, and started the standard CPR at the first time.
When I arrived, I joined in. After more than half an hour, the patient barely recovered his heartbeat, but the large myocardial infarction and prolonged cardiogenic shock had destroyed the patient’s last hope, and our efforts eventually came to naught.
With high doses of cardiac stimulation and boosting support, the patient still went due to ineffective resuscitation. When his family asked me to tell his wife the sad news directly, she was already crying so much that she could not speak, but just nodded helplessly. Looking at her, I was like a soldier who had lost a battle, helpless and resigned. ①
This tragedy began with a bucket of cold water 40 hours earlier, a bucket of cold water that was meant to cool off the heat.
Before the patient poured the bucket of cold water on himself, he was a man who was considered by others to be “so fit that he could kill a tiger”. But after pouring the cold water, he began to experience persistent chest tightness. At first, he thought he was just suffering from heatstroke, so he stayed up and didn’t go to the hospital.
A few hours later, he found that the situation was getting worse and worse, but also chest pain, immediately rushed to the local hospital to see, it turned out that it was actually a large myocardial infarction.
The local hospital was also very professional and rushed to give him an intervention to open the completely blocked anterior descending branch with a stent, but his condition was still getting worse little by little, his blood pressure started to be unsupportable, chest tightness increased again, and the internal environment of his body gradually collapsed. Finally at the moment of arrival at our hospital, his heart stopped working completely.
We hope that you can learn from this sad story and avoid sudden cold stimulation to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
The cause of the tragedy was this
The hot weather made the patient feel uncomfortable, he was naked, went to fetch a bucket of water and poured it over his head, instantly feeling cooler, but it didn’t take long for him to develop chest tightness and false sweating ……
Three hours later, there was a large infarction of the heart muscle, blood pressure is getting lower and lower, cardiogenic shock, cardiac respiratory arrest, several resuscitations, with large doses of cardiac stimulants and antihypertensive drugs, but still regretfully left the world ……
There are not many similar tragic cases
In the summer of 2013, a 40-year-old man in Shenyang, Lao Zhou took a cold shower after a morning run, which resulted in a heart attack and collapsed in the bathroom never to be resuscitated.
In the summer of 2012, a 19-year-old young man in Beijing suddenly suffered a cardiac arrest after taking a shower and chatting with colleagues, and although his heartbeat was briefly restored after resuscitation by colleagues at the scene, he was ultimately not resuscitated.
In the summer of 2010, a 40-year-old man in Dalian Yu Feng took a cold shower in his dormitory after working overtime, resulting in a heart attack and sudden death.
Avoid sudden cold stimulation in summer
For such cases, doctors analyze that sudden cold stimulation will not only cause vasoconstriction, resulting in increased blood pressure, but sometimes even lead to severe spasm of coronary arteries, plaque rupture and thrombosis, resulting in acute myocardial infarction and life-threatening.
This situation is most likely to occur in people with cardiovascular disease, so this article also hopes that we can learn a lesson to reduce sudden cold stimulation and avoid cardiovascular risk. ①
In the hot summer months, many people like to take a cold shower to relieve the heat. In order to avoid such tragedies, it is not that you can’t take a cold shower or drink ice water at all, as long as you master the right method, you can avoid the risk.
If you are used to taking a cold shower in the summer, it is best to follow the principle of gradual progress, in other words, to give the body a time to adapt to the changes in heat and cold. When washing, wet your hands and feet first, then wipe your front and back with a towel soaked in cold water, then wet your whole body with cold water. Soon after washing, wipe dry until your skin is red and you feel good about yourself. If you feel chills, you should shorten the shower time or increase the water temperature.
The same applies to summer swimming, experienced people will first shoot some water to the body, after adaptation and then enter the water, and inexperienced people directly into the water, it is easy to cause cramps.
These 6 conditions must not take a bath
Summer bathing diligently, in addition to careful use of cool water, there are some cases to pay attention to, such as the occurrence of these six cases do not take a bath.
1. Do not take a bath when you sweat profusely
People in sweating, subcutaneous vascular expansion, pore enlargement, blood circulation accelerated, if this time suddenly with cold water bath, subcutaneous vascular contraction immediately, sweat pores then closed, sweat gland secretion also immediately stop, the body heat dissipation channel is blocked. Once the body’s heat can not continue to emanate, the person will feel the skin fever, easy to catch a cold, serious may lead to acute myocardial infarction!
2. don’t take a bath when blood pressure is low
Because of the high temperature of the water in the shower, high temperature water can make people’s blood vessels dilate, people with low blood pressure are prone to cerebral blood supply deficiency, will occur deficiency. ②
3. don’t take a bath after drinking alcohol
Alcohol inhibits liver function activities and hinders the release of glycogen. And when bathing, the glucose consumption in the human body will increase. After taking a bath after drinking, blood sugar is not replenished in time, and symptoms such as dizziness, dizziness, general weakness, etc. can easily occur, and in serious cases, hypoglycemic coma may occur. ③
4. Don’t take a bath after exercise
Whether it is physical labor or mental labor, rest a moment before bathing, otherwise it is easy to cause heart, brain blood supply deficiency, and even fainting.
5. Do not take a bath when you have a fever
When a person’s body temperature rises to 38 ℃, the body’s heat consumption can increase by 20%. At this time, the body is relatively weak, and bathing at this time is prone to accidents. ②
6. should not take a bath immediately after a meal
After a meal, the blood in the body is concentrated in the digestive system to facilitate the digestion of food. If you take a bath at this time, the surrounding blood vessels expand and blood is redistributed. Resulting in a relative reduction of blood circulation in the digestive system, which can cause indigestion, etc.
