Chest pain or a heart attack?

Sometimes it is necessary to know the difference between the symptoms of heart attack and chest pain. The accurate identification of these symptoms, not only can save your live from the risk, but also can prevent the undue concern occurrence in you. 1) If your discomfort and chest pain is caused by heart attack, in this case you will feel a serious and dangerous pain in the chest like the tightness and heaviness. Many people say that when a heart attack strikes, it seems that a big and heavy elephant had sit on their chest. 2) One of the heart attack symptoms is the pain radiate from the heart to the arms, shoulders, back, throat and jaw. Then sometimes, the person experiences the dizziness and nausea. 3) People with food's acid indigestion (heartburn) have chest pain similar to patients with heart attack, with this difference that pain does not be drawn in the upper part of their body (back, shoulder and throat). The heartburn should not be confused with a heart attack, because its symptoms appear after eating a heavy meal. Also in the case of acid indigestion of food, a great burning is felt in chest and esophagus, not in the area of the heart. Avoidance of acidic foods, alcohol, spicy foods and caffeine (coffee and tea) reduces the symptoms of food's acid indigestion. 4) Finally, chest pain and heartburn should not be confused with a heart attack, because a heart attack is associated not only with dizziness and pain in the upper part of the body, but also makes strangely raise the heartbeat, especially after intense physical activity, exercise and stress conditions.