What causes holiday heart syndrome

  Due to excessive excitement and fatigue during the New Year holidays, life is not regular, making many heart patients suddenly develop or aggravate their condition. Overindulgence during the holidays, long hours of playing mahjong, watching TV, Internet inactivity, smoking and drinking alcohol, staying up late for entertainment and other fatigue and irregular life can easily induce holiday heart syndrome. Fatigue and irregular life disrupts the normal balance of neural regulation, which can trigger the syndrome reflexively.  This syndrome is not related to a long history of heart disease, but is closely related to alcohol consumption. Whether it is wine, beer or hard liquor, excessive consumption can cause folding to occur due to the ability of alcohol and its metabolites to delay myocardial conduction time or stimulate the release of norepinephrine from the myocardium, thereby altering myocardial nonresponse. These factors can make excessive drinkers susceptible to tachyarrhythmias, premature arrhythmias, paroxysmal tachycardia, and even abnormal heart rhythms such as atrial flutter or atrial fibrillation.  Why are there potential risks during holidays?  1. Most people like to gather for meals and eat and drink during holidays, without knowing how to control them. Sugar, salt, fat, and alcohol are all consumed in excess, increasing the incidence of heart disease such as atrial fibrillation.  2, People may postpone their medical treatment on holidays because of various reasons such as going on a trip, or hospitalization during the Chinese New Year is unlucky, which in turn delays the treatment time.  3. When it comes to holidays, women may be more busy, which can also trigger heart disease.  How to prevent and treat “holiday heart syndrome”?  Patients who have holiday syndrome must stop drinking, and they must stop completely to prevent the recurrence of the condition from further deterioration. Healthy people should also try to drink less alcohol and consume less food that is high in sugar, salt and fat.  2.Intravenous infusion Discharge alcohol from the body in time to reduce the damaging effect on the heart.  3.Cardiac monitoring Give cardiac monitoring and necessary anti-arrhythmic drugs to the more serious patients. The disappearance of arrhythmia symptoms and the return of normal heartbeat rhythm and frequency suggest a good prognosis.  In conclusion, during the holidays, anyone should drink less alcohol and try not to drink alcohol to avoid adverse cardiac events.