An impending heart attack can be suspected by a symptom that appears on the skin.
Classic symptoms of a heart attack:
- Chest pain or discomfort (feeling of tightness, tightness, fullness, or pain in the center of the chest).
- Discomfort in the upper body, including arms, neck, back, jaw.
- Difficulty breathing.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Cold sweat
- Feeling of fear.
- Dizziness or fainting.
In addition, the appearance of so-called Osler's nodules on the skin can indicate a dangerous condition, they say in a study published in Express.
Osler's nodules– Painful, bulging red lesions that appear on the palms, feet, and especially often on the balls of the fingers. This is a rare manifestation of infective endocarditis.
Infective endocarditis increases the risk of developing dangerous conditions associated with cardiovascular disease, experts from the Florida Center for Dermatology and Skin Cancer said. According to them, often heart problems, which are indicated by the appearance of Osler's nodules, are diagnosed by chance, at a dermatologist's appointment.
Osler's nodules can also be caused by an allergic or immunological reaction.
– These painful nodules are a rare but proven sign of infective endocarditis, the treatment of which helps to get rid of the alarming symptom, – the cardiologists emphasized.
Symptoms of infective endocarditis:
- fever, chills,
- fatigue,
- night sweats
- joint pain
- weight loss
- warm dry skin
- tachycardia
- spleen enlargement.
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— To prevent the development of infective endocarditis, excessive physical and mental loads. It is important to remember that any focus of chronic infection is a potential cause of endocarditis. Therefore, one should not delay the treatment of even the most banal infections, such as caries, which is especially important for patients with heart defects, – doctors say.
A little-known symptom of a possible heart attack has been named
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