(HealthDayNews) -- If you think you're having a heart attack, cough vigorously. It could save your life.

Coughing creates a pumping action that can push blood through the body and to the brain, thereby keeping you going until medical help arrives, according to the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.

However, when and how you cough is important. It should start with a single cough every one to two seconds in bouts of five coughs.



-- Felicity Stone

Last Updated: Apr-14-2004