Holiday Heart Syndrome

" Ice cream -- shaved chocolate. That's certainly enough to get me in the holiday spirit but -- experience and you might end up in the hospital. Becomes not necessarily from binge drinking -- just from going out and party -- too much doctor Tom Coleman of the Cleveland clinic estimates about a third of patients who -- his emergency room between Thanksgiving and New Year's. Have something called holiday heart syndrome. It affects those who aren't used to drinking very much food and hopefully -- out of altering holiday get together. They're hardly speeds up to becomes a regular blood pressure drop and you get light headed as well as having the chest pain -- Feeling like they're having a heart attack they had to pick you off only to discover it -- the alcohol that caused the problem. Drinking while on cough and cold if you can have the same effect."

" Especially -- where you're on other medications but if you're used to drinking if this is not a time to drink five or six and 11 setting or you're at risk."

" The problem usually goes away within 24 hours without any long term damage. The doctors say it's always good to get heart symptoms checked out just in case -- here. So while you're toasting your health this holiday season -- denying it might affect your heart. Erika Edwards and BC news."