Controversial coughing technique: When it comes to your health, you shouldn't take unchecked advice from the internet.

There has been a rumor for years about a coughing technique you should use in the event of a heart attack. But half-knowledge or half-truths from the Internet can be very dangerous.

It's about this long text here, which is shared on Facebook:

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Please pause for 2 minutes and read this:
(I'm curious to see which of my friends will take the time):

1. Let's say it's 7:45 p.m. and you're going home after an unusually hard day at work (of course you're alone...!).

2. You are really tired, upset and frustrated.

3. Suddenly you begin to feel severe pain in your chest that extends into your arm and jaw. You are only about five kilometers from the hospital closest to your house.

4. Unfortunately, you don't know whether you'll get that far.

5. You were trained in first aid, but the guy who taught the course didn't tell you *how to use it on yourself*.

6. How can you survive a heart attack alone until you get help?
Because many people are alone when they have a heart attack without help, the person whose heart beats inadequately and feels faint only has about 10 seconds before losing consciousness.

7. *These victims can help themselves by coughing violently again and again.*

*Before each cough, a very deep breath should be taken and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as in the production of sputum= sputum from deep in the chest*.

A breath and a cough must be repeated approximately *every two seconds without interruption* until help arrives or until the heart beats normally again.

8. Deep, long breaths bring more oxygen into the lungs and thus into the body and brain and the violent coughing movements press the heart and keep the blood circulating.
The pressure on the heart also helps restore normal heart rhythm.
In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.

9. *Tell this to as many other people as possible! It could save their lives!!!*

10. As an emergency physician, I said:

*If everyone who gets this message sends it to 10 people, you can bet everyone will save at least one life*

11. Instead of sending jokes and Whatsapp messages and pictures, please forward or share this text that can save the life of at least one fellow human being.

12. If this message comes back to you again... even more than once... please don't be upset... Instead, you should be happy that you have many friends who care about you and keep reminding you
how to deal with a heart attack bypasses.

13. Please :…..
*Don’t forget to share!*

The fact check

The text has been circulating on social networks since 2011.

The Rhein-Zeitung has checked this chain letter for its truthfulness. Together with experts from the Mainz University Medical Center we came to a rather frightening result:

The information in this chain letter is not entirely false, but it can also fatal .

“This coughing technique does exist, but it can only help with benign cardiac arrhythmias. “It can be harmful in the event of a heart attack,”

says Dr. Felix Post, cardiologist and intensive care physician at the II Department of Medicine at the University Medical Center at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

In the eyes of the doctor, the only right thing to do is to call the emergency doctor .

Learn to correctly take information from the Internet into account.

Obtaining information from the Internet is absolutely legitimate in and of itself. But you should always check your sources and not take everything you find at face value.

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In particular, information that is shared via status posts or comes from other chain letter-like sources should be checked twice.

There are enough trolls who use the Internet to spread falsehoods or cause harm.

Conclusion

This text is a chain letter with a dangerous half-truth as its message.

This coughing technique does exist, but if used at the wrong moment, it can do more harm than help.

Anyone who obtains their medical information from the Internet should always check whether the statements are really correct.

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