Patients with cerebral thrombosis start relatively slowly, with mild symptoms at the onset, and most will not have impaired consciousness. However, the condition may worsen progressively within a few hours or days. Despite aggressive measures taken by health care providers to treat the condition, sometimes the progression cannot be stopped. If the blocked blood vessel is large, the area of brain tissue necrosis is large, and cerebral edema is obvious, the patient may gradually develop drowsiness, i.e., he can wake up when called, and fall asleep again immediately without calling. Severe cases may enter coma. Family members should observe whether the strength of the paralyzed limbs gradually becomes smaller or even completely inactive. What is the mental state? If the patient is found to be drowsy and depressed, notify the medical staff immediately. At the same time, the amount of food and water intake and urine volume per day should be recorded for critically ill patients so that doctors can refer to them. Dietary problems Some patients have difficulty swallowing after illness, which is caused by paralysis of the muscles in charge of swallowing. Patients choke and cough when eating, especially when drinking water, and even food spurts out from the mouth and nose. At this time, care should be taken not to force the patient to take water or medication. For light patients, they can be allowed to eat sticky food, such as thick porridge and soft rice. Boil vegetables, minced meat and other side dishes and mix them into the rice, avoiding too thin and dry food, which can be easily swallowed. Oral medications, if not contraindicated, can be crushed and mixed in food. In severe cases, a nasal feeding diet is required, i.e., a rubber tube is inserted into the stomach through the nostrils and food such as rice soup, milk and vegetable juice is injected into the stomach with a syringe to ensure adequate nutrition. Similarly, oral medications can be injected through the stomach tube. Note that the injected food and medication must not have large particles to avoid blocking the gastric tube. Nasal feeding is a necessary means to ensure treatment at a certain stage and is directly related to the success or failure of patient resuscitation. Some patients and family members are reluctant to accept the gastric tube and let the patient swallow reluctantly, which is dangerous. If the food is inhaled into the respiratory tract by mistake, the lighter one will cause lung infection and aspiration pneumonia; the heavier one may die due to asphyxia. Pay attention to the patient’s emotional changes The sudden loss of mobility and language ability from normal people to the loss of self-care and work ability is emotionally difficult to bear, so there are often depression, anxiety and other emotional changes, temperamental, and even personality changes. Family members should actively cooperate with the medical staff, comfort and encourage the patient to cooperate with treatment and rehabilitation exercises. Try to avoid making the patient emotionally agitated.