How to react against fainting

A fainting is a brief loss of consciousness due to the decrease in blood flow made in brain. This episode takes a couple of minutes and the person recovers quickly and complete, although occasionally a fainting can have other causes, such as: shock, printing or poor nutrition, among other similar.
When a person faints not only you may experience loss of consciousness, but also loss of muscle tone and paleness, as you may feel nausea and weakness just before the collapse.

Most common causes of fainting

• When we experience an overexcitement by emotional factors such as anxiety, fear or joy, we may lead to fainting.
• Places enclosed poorly ventilated often produce feeling overwhelmed, causing attacks of anxiety and syncopate (fainting).
• The pain can affect each person differently, can make the brain switches off and this can lead to fainting.
• Extreme heat causing a sudden drop in pressure.
• Fainting can be also associated with phobias that cause fears, which can also reach the fainting.
• Psicodepresivos problems.
• Blood sugar crash.

If you have a history of fainting, it is best to follow the instructions given by your doctor on how to how to prevent it, for example If you know the different situations that cause you a fainting, it is better avoid them.

Measures to suffer a fainting

• To help the unconscious person fall to the ground without getting hurt.
• Place her mouth up and with the feet at one height greater than the head, in this way the blood will circulate more quickly and more oxygen will be sent to the brain.
• Check his vital signs are normal.
• Loosen clothing, belts and everything that can restrict blood flow. It provokes clear environment and cool environment.
• It is necessary to keep the person lying down for - at least - 10 to 15 minutes or feel it forward with his head between his knees.
• Rubbing alcohol on the wrists (hands), the nape of the neck and, in addition, cool the front; preferably do not put alcohol on the nose of the passed out, as this rather than encourage you can generate is bursting vessels in the nose.
• It is not recommended to give to drink or eat something, it is best to wait until it is restored a little.
• When the unconscious person itself, cover it well, because sometimes fainting is followed by a feeling of chills, accompanied by tremors.

If you are people who are often tide is recommended when rising wait seated a minute or two before standing; if is by fast, take a glass of orange juice with sugar; If it is for exercise, take several glasses of water a day.

When to see a doctor?

• When the unconscious person takes more than one couple of minutes to regain consciousness.
• When the person is too faint.
• When you have diabetes or you are pregnant.
• When the person is bleeding, it is injured or the fainting dropped from a considerable height.
• When seizures occur, or if you feel pain.
• When it bothers you breast or loses the capacity of speech, sight or motion.

While most of the blackouts are fleeting, situations there are others who may have a complication, that it is necessary to go to the doctor when this happens, so give a diagnosis and appropriate treatment. On some occasions you may request an electroencephalogram, an electrocardiogram or a blood test to identify the reason for the collapse.
It should be very clear that the calm, not to be missed as in the case of fainting, it helps more one who keeps calm, which harder talk. Do not attempt to lift the unconscious person! Since this generates an abuse in its extremities and, at the time of awakening, you will feel much pain and abuse.
The hours after fainting are very important, as it should be the person watching, since its cause with certainty is not known and may faint again even while lying down.

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