Not a good idea. See the urban legend page http://www.snopes2.com/ with a
subject of "cough dropped."
This is a very dangerous urban legend that could cost you your life.
        Tom Hula
        Victor S. Barnes Company

|-----Original Message-----
|From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
|Behalf Of Joan Entwistle
|Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:54 PM
|To: [log in to unmask]
|Subject: OT - Surviving a Heart Attack-ALONE
|
|
|I have not heard of this technique.  When I renew my CPR, I will ask the
|instructor about this.  If it keeps you conscious long enough to dial 911,
|then it would be worth knowing.  One note:  women have different symptoms
|for heart attack than men.
|
|"Women need to be aware that their heart attack symptoms
|    may not be "typical," such as severe chest pain. Instead,
|    symptoms may be more subtle and include fatigue, nausea,
|    abdominal pain, "indigestion," shortness of breath or
|    difficulty breathing, weakness, or even jaw pain."
|
|from http://www.womens-health.com/health_center/cardio/wcvd_women.html
|
|
|Surviving a Heart Attack-ALONE - - - this is NOT a joke!!!!!!!!
|
|If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can
|bet that we'll save at least one life.
|
|Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone
|of course), after an unusually hard day on the job.
|You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you
|start experiencing severe pain in your chest that
|starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw.
|You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest
|your home; unfortunately you don't know if you'll be
|able to make it that far. What can you do?
|
|You've been trained in CPR but the guy that taught the
|course neglected to tell you how to perform it on yourself.
|
|HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
|
|Because many people are alone when they suffer a heart
|attack, this article seems to be in order. Without help,
|the person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins
|>to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing
|consciousness.
|
|However, these victims can help themselves by coughing
|repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be
|taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and
|prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the
|chest..
|Deep breath and a cough must be repeated about every two
|seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the heart
|is felt to be beating normally again.
|
|Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing
|movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating.
|The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain
|normal rhythm, this way, heart attack victims can get to a
|hospital.
|
|Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could
|save their lives!
|
|From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital
|via Chapter 240s newsletter
|>
|>AND THE BEAT GOES ON ...
|>
|>reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc.publication, Heart
|>Response
|>
|
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