This is not the first time we have talked about something like this, and there is a lot of news that has been reaching us over the years about the survival of a person thanks to a apple deviceeither due to an alert from its sensors, or due to being able to make an emergency call in critical situations.
Today, we will see another of those news that we love, and that is that a simple device that we wear on our wrist can be more important than we think, and could save our livesas is the case that we are going to analyze now.
It is saved thanks to the Apple Watch
Stephen Pollard is a journalist who was undergoing treatment for leukemia. In the midst of all this, he got bronchitis and was prescribed an antibiotic that, unknown to him, did not fit well with the rest of the medication he was taking. Shortly afterward he began to feel terrible, he had a severe headache, nausea, vomiting and a general feeling that his body was not working as it should.
One night, while I was in bed trying to rest, Your Apple Watch gave you an alert saying your heart rate was too higheven when at rest. He didn't think much of it at first. He thought it was due to discomfort, moving or simply being knackered. It was not the first time that the clock warned of something and many times nothing happened.
But the next day he spoke with another doctor at the same hospital and the pieces fell into place. The problem was not just the infection, but the mixture of medications. That antibiotic should not have been prescribed in his situation and was causing a dangerous reaction that was straining his heart. The doctor was very clear: if I had not stopped that medication in time, things could have ended very badly.
After stopping the antibiotic, Stephen He kept looking at the clock to see if his pulse was returning to normal, and little by little it went down.. Looking at it with perspective, he himself recognizes that that alert was the signal that made him realize that something serious was happening. He doesn't say that the watch works miracles, but it did give him a key clue when his body had not yet “screamed” enough.
Their conclusion is quite simple: these watches are not a substitute for a doctor, but sometimes They can tell you that something is wrong. before it's too late. And in his case, that small vibration on the wrist could make a huge difference.
Currently, the most recent models can also indicate other problems, such as saturation, or your body temperaturea good indicator that you are fighting an infection, or that something is not going as it should, so having it is key to finding out, before we notice it, that something in our body is not following the pattern of the last few weeks, and that, at least, we should be alert.
