There is currently another chain letter circulating that explains in great detail what measures you should take in the event of a heart attack. But be careful: you shouldn't rely on this advice!

A user asked us to republish our information about that chain letter. We would be happy to oblige!

In that chain letter, which is currently being copied and shared again on Facebook, it says the following:

I know it's a chain letter.
I care about the content. Do you have the opportunity to check whether this method really helps? Please pause for 2 minutes and read this: 1. Let's say it's 7:45 p.m. and you're walking home after an unusually hard day at work (alone, of course).
2. You are really tired, upset and frustrated.
3 Suddenly you begin to feel severe pain in your chest, extending into your arm and into your jaw.
You are only about five kilometers from the hospital closest to your home. 4. Unfortunately, you don't know if you can make it this far.
5. You were trained in CPR, but the guy who taught the course didn't tell you how to perform it on yourself.
6. How can I survive a heart attack with only a chance of surviving?
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. However, these victims can always help themselves by coughing.
A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as in the production of 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. 8. Deep breaths bring oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements push the heart and keep the blood circulating.
Pressure on the heart also helps restore normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital. 9. Tell as many other people about it as possible.
It could save her life!! 10. A cardiologist says: If everyone who gets this message sends it to 10 people, you can bet we'll save at least one life.
11. Instead of sending jokes, please...by forwarding this mail that can save someone's life.
12. If this news comes around you... more than once... please don't get 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

But be careful! This is a dangerous half-truth that can end in death!

This text has been circulating on the internet since 2011 and the information is not presented entirely correctly.

Even the Rhein-Zeitung checked this chain letter to see if it was true, and together with experts from Mainz University Medical Center they came to a rather frightening conclusion.

The information in this chain letter is not entirely false, but can also be fatal at the wrong moment.

“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

Getting your information from the Internet is a perfectly legitimate thing in itself, but you should always check your sources and not take everything you find at face value.

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

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

Result:

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

This coughing technique is real, but if used at the wrong moment, it can cause 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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