A 35 -year -old woman Vuong (Zhejiang, China) also fell into the scene of "the most death" because of the symptoms that she thought was a cold.Vuong has just started a fashion business for half a year, so it is very busy.Around the beginning of September, she began to feel tired, mild fever and shortness of breath.However, she thinks that she has a cold due to changing the weather, so it is not too concerned.

After more than a week, these symptoms were increasingly serious, Ms. Vuong went to buy medicine.She drank for two weeks still could not help but be subjective, thinking that she had to feel heavy to use the medicine so.Until, the chest drum attacks were increasingly intense, both people had no strength, sometimes her heart ached as if she was strangled, she went to the local hospital to visit.

As a result, doctors diagnosed Vuong with dangerous heart disease rather than a cold.Immediately, she was transferred to the People's Hospital of Zhejiang Province (China) for intensive treatment.

Dr. Ding Yahui, Deputy Head of Cardiology Department said:“Within 12 hours after hospitalization, the patient stopped beating more than 20 times.Fortunately, after many efforts of the medical team, the situation began to stabilize the next morning.However, this disease is a wake -up scene for people to take care of health.

When symptoms are like a cold but serious or persistent, not responding when taking the drug, you should go to the hospital immediately.Because this can be a symptom of many other dangerous diseases, such as myocarditis in this patient.Even if only the usual cold should not be subjective. ”

Myocarditis - a dangerous disease that is easily mistaken for a cold

According to Dr. Ding Yahui, myocarditis is an inflammatory disease that affects the heart muscle (the heart muscle layer) that reduces the ability to effectively pump the heart of the heart.Myocarditis can lead to arrhythmia, cardiac shock and if not detected, the risk of death is very high.

Myocarditis may appear due to many causes but the most common are viral infections, especially the viruses that cause respiratory diseases.It includes a virus that causes colds.They can penetrate blood, attack myocardial and seriously damage.People with viral infections continue to work physically or overwork at a high risk of dangerous complications such as tachycardia, chest tightness and chest drum.

Dr. Ding also warned that dangerous heart disease but very easy to confuse with the usual cold.Due to two main reasons:

- Myocarditis and colds have similar starting symptoms.For example, fatigue, mild fever, muscle pain, stuffy nose, runny nose and coughing so it makes it easy for people to think they only have a common cold.

- In the early stages, myocarditis may not cause symptoms directly related to the heart such as chest pain or clear shortness of breath.This makes the patient not linking the symptoms he encountered with heart disease.

However,Myocarditis still has special signs to help distinguish it with coldslike:

- Fever and fatigue: Viral infection causes myocarditis often accompanied by symptoms of fever, cough, fatigue, and lasts from 3 to 5 days or more.

- Chest pain and shortness of breath: A few days after initial symptoms, patients may experience chest pain, chest tightness, shortness of breath due to heart damage.Even brushing the chest.

- Unstable heart rate: The virus can affect the transmission system of the heart, making the heart rate fast or slow.

- Decreased blood pressure: If the heart muscle is seriously damaged, the blood pressure will drop, causing problems with the circulation and kidneys.

“Virus myocarditis often occurs in young and middle -aged people.Especially those who are in good health but often under high work pressure, stay up late and have unhealthy eating habits.The immune system of young people has a strong reaction to the virus, but sometimes this system attacks healthy myocardial cells, causing myocarditis. ”- Dr. Ding shared more.

Source and photo: QQ, Family Doctor