Actor Vikas Sethi suffered from vomiting and diarrhea before his death due to heart attack. Let’s find out if there is any connection between digestive problems and heart health?
TV actor Vikas Sethi died suddenly due to a heart attack at the age of 48. When his wife was interviewed about this, she told that Vikas Sethi’s health had deteriorated since the day before. He was suffering from vomiting and diarrhea. He was very troubled by dehydration. According to Jahnvi Sethi, wife of the ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ actor, he was suffering from vomiting and diarrhea. He did not want to go to the hospital, so we asked the doctor to come home.
Symptoms before cardiac arrest
Cardiac arrest is a serious health complication, which can be fatal in some cases. Therefore, it is important to recognize the early warning signs and symptoms. According to a report published in the Indian Express, according to Dr. Anand Ram, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Wockhardt Hospitals Mira Road, symptoms such as nausea, vomiting-like sensation and prolonged diarrhea can be warning signs that your heart is not functioning properly.
Dr Ram stressed that symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhoea can sometimes go beyond normal gastrointestinal problems. “It can also lead to symptoms such as chest pain, shortness of breath, nausea, restlessness, cold sweats, fatigue, feeling of suffocation, sudden collapse and unconsciousness,” Dr Ram said.
Chest pain occurs in 8–33 percent of heart attacks
Dr Sudhir Kumar, Consultant Neurologist at Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, said that the classical symptom of a heart attack (myocardial infarction) is chest pain. However, he said that 8-33 percent of heart attack cases do not cause chest pain. According to doctors, in the case of actor Vikas, he was likely to have a cardiac arrest during sleep. Heart attacks can have symptoms such as abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and loose stools, which mimic diseases such as gastroenteritis or acid peptic disease. These symptoms are more common in inferior myocardial infarction caused by blockage of the right coronary artery.
There is strong evidence that involvement of the gastrointestinal system and liver in heart failure is independently associated with poor outcome, according to a report published in April 2016 in the journal Circulation by the American Heart Association. It states that recognizing the clinical and pathophysiological significance of gastrointestinal symptoms that may be indicative of heart failure is important.
