Fainting

Fainting is a feeling of dizziness and headache accompanied by decreasing consciousness.

First aid

1.     Lower your head between your knees, if the patient is sitting in a chair.

2.     Or, let him lie supine with the head lower than the feet. This is done to draw blood to the head

3.     Check the pulse and respiration to see if breathing and pulse strong. If breathing rapid and strong pulse, pick up a paper or plastic bag large enough to cover the face. Hold the bag in front of the nose and mouth and let the patient inhale and exhale slowly in kentong for a few minutes. If he does not recover after 15-20 minutes, take the patient to the nearest hospital or clinic for a medical examination.

4.     If the patient is not breathing and throbbing nadinyatak palpable, be willing to hold cardiopulmonary resuscitation (intensification back the heart and lungs with artificial respiration). Have someone call a doctor or preparing to transport the patient to the nearest hospital. If someone is able to perform CPR, do CPR while the patient is being transported to the hospital. Stop only when the patient palpable pulse and he was breathing.

5.     Check whether patients suffering from diabetes or not. Ask family.

·       CPR   is Cardiopul monary resuscitation / resuscitation kardiopulmonary (artificial ventilation)

Treatment with medicinal plants

1.     Leaves sugar apple (Anona squamosa L.)

Ø If the patient breathes with a strong pulse throbbing, crushed leaves of sugar apple.

Ø Let him smell the juice. Put on the nose so kissed. Let him kiss up to dizziness or fainting missing.

2.     Guava leaf (Psidium guajava L.)

Ø Destroy   guava leaves

Ø Let the patient smell it, sent him to a long breath. Put the leaves that have destroyed it in front of the nose so she can smell the leaves.