Blogger Spotlight: This Blog Just Might Save Your Life

What do you do if you're alons and you're having a heart attack? How about this: What signs can you look for to tell if someone is having a stroke?

If you read two recent blog posts by Heart and Health, a family medicine and cardiovascular care practice in North Babylon you might know what to do.

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In a post titled the blogger writes that there is a three-hour window of opportunity to get someone who is having a stroke to a doctor to have a "good chance the neurologist can reverse the effects of the stroke."

"The patient must be in the doctors care, diagnosed and medically treated all within that three-hour window if there is going to be a good outcome."

In another recent post, the center gives advice on what to do if you're alone and think you're having a heart attack.

"Here is a scenario: You are driving by yourself. You experience very severe pain in your chest. You are a few miles away from the closest hospital, but you aren't sure you can hold on that long."

Two pieces of advice they impart are to start coughing and take deep breaths.

Head over to Heart and Healthy profile page to read all of their blog posts.