Begusarai. Can heartbreak or betrayal in love really kill you? This question is often considered emotional, but medical science does not completely deny it. Local 18 asked this question to Bihar’s famous cardiologist and IMA Secretary Dr. Pankaj Kumar Singh. According to him, deep shock, mental stress or emotional shock can have a serious impact on the heart. This condition is called broken heart syndrome in medical language.

What is broken heart syndrome?
According to the doctor, in this disease the heart muscles suddenly become weak. This weakness usually occurs due to some major mental shock like betrayal in love, death of someone close, accident or extreme stress. In many cases, excessive physical stress can also cause this. In medical term it is also called Tokosomo disease.

Do not ignore the symptoms
Symptoms of this disease can be similar to heart attack. The patient may have problems like severe chest pain, excessive sweating, sudden weakness, nervousness and irregular heartbeat. Many times people ignore it considering it to be normal nervousness, which can prove dangerous.

Life can be saved with timely treatment
Doctors say that if timely diagnosis and treatment is done, the patient can recover completely in 3 to 4 weeks. But if there is delay in treatment, the situation can become serious and may even become life threatening. Therefore, if symptoms related to heart disease appear after any major shock, it is important to immediately contact a doctor.

Medical experts say that do not take emotional stress lightly. It is important to take care of both mental health and heart, because sometimes heart pain is not just a feeling but can also become a disease.