What is cerebrovascular disease and what are the symptoms?
Cerebrovascular disease is a group of diseases that cause damage to brain tissue due to impaired intracranial blood circulation, also known as stroke, commonly known as “stroke”. It is generally divided into ischemic cerebrovascular disease (such as cerebral thrombosis, cerebral embolism and transient ischemic attack) and hemorrhagic cerebrovascular disease (such as cerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, etc.).
Who are prone to cerebrovascular disease.
1, a family history of cerebrovascular disease.
2, hypertension.
3, diabetes mellitus.
4, heart disease.
5, transient ischemic attack.
6, cerebral atherosclerosis.
7, obesity, hyperlipidemia.
8, over-smoking and drinking people with short temper, congenital cerebral artery malformation and cervical spondylosis.
What factors are likely to trigger cerebrovascular disease?
Although there are many triggers for cerebrovascular disease, they are all related to hypertension and atherosclerosis. Any cause that can affect rapid fluctuations in blood pressure or changes in the blood supply to the brain can be a cause of cerebrovascular disease. Roughly speaking, they can be divided into six categories, such as excessive fatigue, emotional excitement, excessive force, poor diet, postural changes and other related diseases.
What are the most common omens before the onset of cerebrovascular disease?
There are various signs and symptoms of cerebrovascular disease, which can be broadly classified into five categories.
1, motor nerve dysfunction: common manifestations are sudden mouth distortion, salivation, difficulty in speaking, slurred speech, aphasia or lack of meaning, difficulty in swallowing, limb spasm or jumping, etc.
2.Headache and dizziness: the nature of headache is different from usual headache, the degree is heavier, from intermittent headache to continuous headache, if the headache is fixed in a certain area may be a precursor of cerebral hemorrhage or subarachnoid hemorrhage.
3.Sensory dysfunction: facial numbness, tongue numbness, lip numbness and numbness or foreign body sensation in one limb, sudden blindness, vertigo, spontaneous pain in limbs.
4. Mental disorders of consciousness: always wanting to sleep, drowsy all day, transient loss of consciousness and intelligence.
5.Phytokinetic disorders: some symptoms of functional disorders of the vegetative nerves, such as false sweating, low fever, palpitation or chest discomfort or erratic, nausea and vomiting, occur due to cerebrovascular lesions, blood pressure fluctuations, and the influence of cerebral blood supply.
What should I do if the above symptoms occur?
Since the damage of neurological function after the onset of cerebrovascular disease goes through a process, the treatment of cerebrovascular disease is valuable in the early stage, as the so-called “time is life and time is function”. After the onset of symptoms, patients with ischemic stroke within 6 hours can be treated with thrombolysis to open the blocked blood vessels and restore the blood supply to the brain tissue as soon as possible, thus saving the neurons that have not yet died. For patients with loss of consciousness after onset, care should be taken during handling to reduce vibration and avoid causing increased cerebral hemorrhage.
What is the threat of cerebrovascular disease to the elderly?
Cerebrovascular disease is primarily a disease of the elderly, and accounts for the -th leading cause of death in the elderly. Cerebrovascular disease increases with age from the age of 50, and the mortality rate of cerebrovascular disease doubles when the age increases by 5 years. According to the survey, the incidence of cerebral hemorrhage is the highest in patients aged 50-59, and cerebral thrombosis is the highest in patients aged 60-79. Once cerebrovascular disease strikes, 4 to 5 out of 10 people will die, and the minor ones will also suffer from hemiplegia, difficulty in speaking, mental retardation, muscle atrophy, joint stiffness, loss of sensation in limbs, blurred vision and partial blindness, dementia, long-term bedridden incontinence and other sequelae, which bring great inconvenience to patients and their families.
What are the sequelae of cerebrovascular disease?
For example, hemiplegia, speech disorders, intellectual and mental disorders, etc.
How to prevent cerebrovascular disease?
First of all, it is necessary to control and treat stroke risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, heart disease, etc. It is also necessary to take anti-platelet drugs such as aspirin, clopidogrel, cilostazol, etc. Those who have atrial fibrillation may also need to take warfarin anticoagulation therapy. Systematic and regular treatment under the guidance of a doctor is required. In addition, in addition to genetic factors in the occurrence of cerebrovascular disease, it also depends on the subjective control of the person: emotional control, regularity of life, reasonable diet and physical exercise, avoiding obesity, reducing salt intake, not smoking, drinking less, and paying attention to rest are all in their own arrangements.
Why is it that the recurrence of cerebrovascular disease cannot be ignored?
People only know the seriousness of cerebrovascular disease, but they often ignore or even know nothing about its recurrence, so some patients die after recurrence, and there are many such lessons. According to the survey, about one-third of cerebrovascular patients may relapse within five years. Therefore, it is also extremely important to prevent recurrence after cerebrovascular disease, and the prevention method is the same as preventing the occurrence of cerebrovascular disease.
Diet therapy for cerebrovascular patients
Diet therapy for cerebrovascular patients can be summarized by “eating a light diet, basic vegetarian diet, moderate hunger and fullness, controlling excessive fat, drinking tea in moderation, and abstaining from smoking and drinking alcohol”.
Eat a light diet: eat more foods rich in vitamins and gluten sterols such as vegetables, fruits, soy products (soybeans, tofu, tofu flowers, etc.) to prevent overweight. Less food such as animal liver, brain, kidney, bone marrow and fatty meat. Animal oil, fish roe and egg yolk should also be eaten sparingly. Too salty, too spicy, too acidic, too cold food should also not be eaten often.
Drink tea in moderation: domestic green tea has a good effect of fat loss, regular tea can increase the elasticity of blood vessels, the contractility of the heart muscle and the digestive capacity of the stomach and intestines, which is beneficial to the health of the whole body.
Quit smoking and less alcohol: smoking than non-smokers suffer from cerebrovascular disease, hypertension, atherosclerosis to 70% higher. The reason is that smoke contains dozens of harmful ingredients such as nicotine, carbon monoxide, cyanine, etc. have the effect of speeding up the heartbeat, raising blood pressure and accelerating atherosclerosis. Older people drink a small amount of alcohol every day is not harmful to health, beer a day to drink no more than half a bottle, white wine no more than one or two.
Life care for cerebrovascular patients
Physical exercise: insist on jogging for 5 minutes or walking for 20 minutes every day. Massage the shoulder well point with both hands for 5 minutes every day, and then rub the armpits 2 to 3 times. Do a moderate amount of housework.
Early detection of cerebrovascular disease: If you have been in good health, when insomnia, dizziness, sudden loss of memory, numbness in the limbs, palpitations, increased tinnitus and poor sleep occur, you should be alert to the presence of cerebrovascular disease. Please go to the hospital for a comprehensive examination.
Strengthen functional exercise: Cerebrovascular patients appear to have different degrees of motor, sensory, speech and other dysfunctions, and functional exercise is very important for the recovery of these functions. Functional exercise should be performed early after the onset of the disease, and should still be adhered to during the rehabilitation phase.