Importance of adherence to medication schedule, precautions in heart patients
With a pandemic hit world scaling down on most functions, the overall occasion wear aesthetic too, has undergone a revamp.
Hence Resort 21 line-up saw brands cutting down on their cocktail dresses and including more sweatsuits and cashmere pieces. Designers showcased an array of quarantine-focused daywear pieces like knit cardigans, slip skirts and satin trousers. Labels like Louis Vuitton, Brock Collection, Carolina Aherrera, Johanna Oritz, MSGM and Nicole Miller sent out day time dresses and easy breezy separates, minus any ornamentation.
Designer Payal Pratap feels, with changing times everyone has gravitated towards more comfortable clothing. “Socialising has become limited.the focus is on simplicity, sustainable clothing,”she says.
Agreeing to it, designer Yadvi Agarwal, adds, “As long as the world is in midst of a pandemic, daytime dressing will be in trend. However, the evening wear will not be out of fashion.”
Incidence of cardiovascular diseases is increasing among the Indian population, making it important to raise awareness on importance of leading a healthy lifestyle. One can do this by consuming a balanced diet, avoiding smoking and drinking, staying active and keeping check on vital signs such as cholesterol, blood pressure, and sugar.
With Covid-19 pandemic spreading across the globe, it is also imperative for people with existing heart conditions to take extra precautions and build immunity. Because, when this virus enters a body, it causes inflammation of the airways leading to irritation of the nerves and cough.
As the infection worsens, it can lead to lung damage and reduction in their capacity to distribute oxygen supply to the bloodstream. Eventually, oxygen levels in blood go down and the heart needs to beat harder and faster to ensure oxygen supply to the organs. Blood pressure starts going down and that again puts added stress on the heart.
Heart patients should adhere to medication schedule and stay in touch with their doctors. It is important to not stop medication without advice. Make sure to eat healthy, engage in light physical activity, and take all precautions including maintaining a safe distance from anyone with flu-like symptoms, etc. Make sure to seek timely treatment in case of symptoms such as breathlessness, chest pain, etc. In people with existing heart diseases or complications such as sudden cardiac arrest, immediate treatment must be provided. The most effective way to treat SCA is through defibrillation. This involves delivering an electrical shock to your heart to restore a normal heartbeat. An implantable defibrillator, or ICD, is a device implanted under the skin to treat fast, irregular rhythms.
The ICD monitors your heart rhythm 24 hours a day. If your heart is beating too fast or irregularly, it will first send small painless electrical signals to correct your heart rate. If this continues, the defibrillator will deliver a shock to restore your heart to a normal rate.
Another effective treatment is combining a bi-ventricular pacemaker with an ICD (CRT). Cardiac re-synchronisation therapy (CRT) is the insertion
of electrodes in the left and right ventricles of the heart, as well as the right atrium, to treat heart failure by coordinating the function of the left and right ventricles.