Can You Travel to Tibet After Stent Placement? Heart Experts: Travel Advice for Heart Patients
After surgery, pushing a wheelchair, accompanied by 76 patients, Mr. Liao returned to the ward. He is 44 years old, due to long-term unhealthy lifestyle, smoking and drinking, obesity, and three high blood pressure not controlled, resulting in severe angina, medication ineffective, had to be angiography, angiography showed one vessel 98% narrowed, about to block, had to put in a stent.
On the way, Mr. Liao asked me: It's almost May, I want to go to Tibet. How about fewer people? Can I still go after putting in the stent?
I said: Putting in a stent has nothing to do with whether you can go to Tibet.
Whether you can go to Tibet to travel, the key is still the heart itself, that is, the overall health condition.
I. Stent in some extent, improved our heart
Stent itself does not restrict travel, stent just solved two problems, one is acute myocardial infarction occurrence, as soon as possible to open the vessel, at this time stent is to save lives; two is for very narrow vessels, drugs cannot control, repeated angina attacks, stent is to relieve symptoms and improve quality of life.
From a certain point of view, because of acute myocardial infarction and severe angina after putting in stent, the hidden dangers are removed, can go out to travel, can live normally. If acute myocardial infarction did not do stent, may life danger, may heart failure, no matter travel or not.
Severe angina without stent will not go to the toilet, how to travel?
But whether you can go to Tibet to travel or go to Tibet to travel, still need comprehensive judgment.
So is it okay to go to Tibet after putting in the stent?
Of course not, as mentioned before, the key is the degree of coronary artery disease. If coronary artery disease is not very serious, then it is okay to travel.
II. The following types of coronary artery disease or stent patients do not recommend travel:
1. Acute myocardial infarction, just after putting in stent one month, try not to run, rest mainly, do appropriate activity at home.
2. Have already appeared heart dysfunction, appeared heart failure, heart enlargement, these situations do not recommend travel, even travel is under the condition of stable disease, carry out easy travel, cannot walk, such as can travel cruise, live in a scenic spot, etc.
3. Still have angina, some people even after putting in stent, still have residual narrowing or angina symptoms, do not recommend travel, still need to stabilize heart problems first.
Besides these 3 cases, most coronary artery disease patients, even after putting in stent, do not restrict travel,
III. But when traveling, you should pay attention to these 4 points to ensure heart safety:
1. Try to avoid going to high altitude, because high altitude hypoxia, easy to induce angina; try not to fatigue, such as climbing, long-distance driving, fatigue departure, etc.; try to avoid doing vigorous exercise or extreme sports, such as bungy jumping, roller coasters, etc.
2. When traveling, remember to bring heart disease drugs, all long-term use medications, such as aspirin + statins or ticlopidine, clopidogrel, or blood pressure, blood sugar drugs, if convenient to carry blood pressure and blood sugar monitors.
3. Carry heart emergency drugs, generally recommend carrying nitroglycerin, because nitroglycerin has a clear role in angina attacks.
4. Travel with companions, accompany family or friends, take care of each other, arrive at the destination, understand the local medical environment simply, of course, these are for backup.
IV. Can you go to Tibet?
Tibet is known as the Roof of the World, it is high altitude, hypoxic, for coronary artery disease patients, not a good travel choice, because coronary artery disease is the heart muscle ischemia, heart muscle ischemia is the heart muscle hypoxia, that is, coronary artery narrowing, insufficient blood supply, the blood in the blood carrying oxygen is not enough, especially in the cold, exercise, fatigue, heart rate acceleration, etc., will easily induce angina, induce myocardial infarction.
When we are in high altitude, heart rate will accelerate, why? Because high altitude is hypoxic, we only have to speed up the heart to meet the high altitude itself hypoxic, this is the self-protection of the body, that is, compensation, most healthy people, good people, in high altitude can through this compensation function, to meet the self-oxygen shortage, gradually adapt to high altitude.
But for people who have put in stent, most of the heart compensation function is poor, once in high altitude, a hypoxic, the heart will accelerate, at this time will easily induce angina, heart failure, myocardial infarction, etc. so including Tibet in high altitude, coronary artery disease stent patients is not a good travel choice.
But anything is not absolute, for people who put in stent, heart function is very good, and just one vessel problem, through stent solved, and the patient's own conditions are also very good, then naturally can go to Tibet.
