AFVOA Newletters of Year 2003

Page 45 of 170 and saute the grated onion. To this, add the cooked sag and mix all the other ingredients and cook until the oil separates. Garnish with cheese and serve hot How to survive a heart attack when you are alone. 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 Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) but the guy that taught the course neglected to tell you how to perform it on yourself. Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed 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, and a cough must be repeated about every 2 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. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital. BE A GOOD CITIZEN AND INFORM AS MANY FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE. (Contributed by Lt Col V S Rajan) FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) What are the Symptoms of SARS? The primary symptoms for the virus known as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) are high fever (greater than 38 C or 100.4 F), in addition to a dry cough, shortness of breath, or difficulties breathing. Other possible symptoms include headache, muscular stiffness, loss of appetite, malaise, confusion, rash and diarrhoea.