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reasons that can cause loss of consciousness, quite a lot. The most typical simple fainting associated with a stuffy, stale air, lack of space in transport. Sometimes it can occur when a strong cough in diseases such as bronchitis, pneumonia and whooping cough. Distributed versions of disable consciousness when a person is severely rotated or throws back his head, perezhimaya with the vertebral arteries. Fainting may occur even for wearing tight necktie, scarf or greatly prolonged due to compression of a rigid collar carotid sinus. The literature describes cases of syncope in young girls, who explained the wearing tight corsets.
Inadequate blood supply to the brain and cause swelling of the temporary shutdown of consciousness during hypertensive crisis and stroke. A person can lose consciousness after myocardial infarction, weakening of cardiac activity or due to cardiogenic shock. Such patients should be urgently measure blood pressure and enter the necessary medicines.
Reducing supply oxygen to the brain and the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the blood often occurs when bronchospasm. In this case we have to use an inhaler containing bronhorasshiryayuschee tool.
Intoxication (dasgs, alcohol, dasgs) - also a possible cause of syncope. During cardiac arrest have to do CPR on "mouth to mouth, or chest compressions.
Disabling consciousness possible for bleeding, burns, traumatic brain injuries. In such cases it is necessary to stop the bleeding by applying a tourniquet or pressure bandage and trauma put a chill on the damaged parts of the body.
should distinguish between syncope and epileptic seizures. When aura is lost consciousness immediately, the patient falls threw himself. Then the cramps, there may be incontinent and biting tongue, his mouth foamed saliva released. In order to determine whether consciousness is lost, you need to call out loudly, the victim, a pat on the cheeks, to establish whether the pupils react to light. This information will be needed doctors ambulance. If loss of consciousness may sometimes be vomiting. To a man died from suffocation due to the impact of vomit in the airway, turn it on its side, remove the vomit and delivered to the nose of cotton wool with ammonia. If consciousness is not restored within 5-7 minutes, need urgent hospitalization.
Elena Kochubey

Source: Journal of Quality of Life. Prevention. " № 11 November 2004 www.profilaktika.com