2006-12-29 13:41:23 · 30 answers · asked by Matt S 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
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2006-12-29 13:42:14 · answer #1 · answered by gottabuylots 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
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2016-05-17 10:27:54 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fainting or syncope is a sudden (and generally momentary) loss of consciousness, or blacking out, due to a lack of sufficient blood and oxygen reaching the brain. The first symptoms a person feels before fainting are dizziness, a dimming of vision, or brown-out and feeling hot. Moments later, the person's vision turns black and he or she drops to the floor (or slumps if seated in a chair).
Factors that influence fainting are taking in too little food and fluids, low blood pressure, hypoglycemia, growth spurts, physical exercise in excess of the energy reserve of the body, and lack of sleep. Even standing up too quickly or being in too hot a room can cause fainting.
More serious causes of fainting include cardiac (heart-related) causes such as an abnormal heart rhythm (an arrhythmia), where the heart beats too slowly, too rapidly or too irregularly to pump enough blood to the brain. Some arrythmias can be life-threatening. Other important cardiac conditions that can manifest with syncope include subclavian steal syndrome and aortic stenosis.
Fainting can also be due to neurological disorders, stress, side effects of anaesthetics, etc.
2006-12-29 13:44:14 · answer #3 · answered by merideathx 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No fainting is caused by stimulating your vagus nerve, which causes your system to slow down. If your heart stops it is a heart attack.
2006-12-29 13:43:09 · answer #4 · answered by aligal8 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You don't die ... you become dizzy and light headed ... sometimes you can just sit down for a minute and sometimes you loose consciousness ... but you don't die. Fainting would be called dying if you died!
2006-12-29 13:51:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you suffer a momentary blood pressure drop and it causes your brain to shut down for a moment. Kind 'o like getting punched out.
2006-12-29 13:43:52 · answer #6 · answered by Mad Dog Johnson 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No but it slows way down because your blood pressure drops, down to about 50 beats a minute.
2006-12-29 13:43:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only if your fainting is due to you having a stroke.
2006-12-29 13:44:49 · answer #8 · answered by marklemoore 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends on why you fainted. Generally, no.
2006-12-29 13:43:13 · answer #9 · answered by Dorothy and Toto 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. That's not fainting, that's cardiac arrest.
2006-12-29 13:42:43 · answer #10 · answered by Sir J 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, but they do say, " Dead Faint". Hmmm
2006-12-29 13:51:26 · answer #11 · answered by elliebear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋