Yesterday, Wang originally took his mother from Shandong to visit the West Lake, but the old man suddenly limped as he walked. She just sit down to rest for a while, the leg will be fine, but a long time will limp again, so repeatedly. Xiao Wang was in a hurry and dragged his mother to the provincial Xinhua Hospital. The famous Chinese medicine museum of Dr. Wang Xinchang a question to know that this situation in the elderly has lasted two years, it turns out that she has a disease called “intermittent claudication syndrome”. The culprit of “intermittent claudication” turned out to be high blood pressure After taking pictures and other examinations, Dr. Wang Xinchang found that Xiao Wang’s mother had a problem with the blood vessels in her lower limbs. Then carefully inquire, it turns out that the elderly suffer from hypertension for many years, antihypertensive drugs have always been eaten stop, very irregular. However, this high blood pressure is the culprit of “intermittent claudication”. Dr. Wang Xinchang said, “intermittent claudication” this disease is rarely heard of, even if the patient feels wrong, but also often “headache, foot pain,” in fact, the culprit caused by the disease is very familiar chronic diseases, the most important is Diabetes and hypertension. Hypertension led to insufficient blood supply to the muscles of Wang’s mother’s lower extremities, and over time, the arteries caused by lack of oxygen and spasm, will aggravate the narrowing of the arteries in the lower extremities, numbness, twitching and pain in the legs and feet. Continuing to walk, the symptoms worsen, and the patient walks with a limp. And after rest, the hypoxic condition is reduced and the symptoms lessen or disappear. As the condition progresses, patients will walk shorter and shorter distances and need to rest for longer and longer periods of time. Since the blood vessels of the elderly have started to age and have poor vascular elasticity, they are more likely to get this disease. By the same token, patients with hyperlipidemia and diabetes are also prone to atherosclerosis, which can lead to occlusion of blood vessels in the lower limbs and cause insufficient blood supply to the lower limbs. And, as the symptoms become more and more severe, resulting in the limb will gradually necrosis. Treatment of chronic diseases should not be a fluke “When you are old, your legs and feet are naturally inconvenient.” This is a statement that we often hear and take for granted. According to Wang Xinchang, this is what makes many elderly people fail to control “intermittent claudication” at the beginning of the attack. It is also very easy to misdiagnose this disease, and some inexperienced doctors simply do not associate it with diseases such as hypertension. Dr. Wang once saw an elderly patient in the clinic who also had trouble with his legs and thought it was rheumatism, but upon examination, his blood sugar was already very high. And diabetes and hypertension, these chronic diseases require long-term medication, but many elderly people are often pained money, take a chance, only once every two or three days to take the medicine, which in turn makes the lower limb muscle blood supply fluctuations, more prone to disease. The incidence of “intermittent claudication syndrome” is high and will eventually cause serious consequences such as limb necrosis and long-term bed rest. However, it has not received much attention in China yet. In foreign countries, the disease has attracted attention in recent years. According to the survey, more than 3% of people over 65 years old in the United States have intermittent claudication. In Scotland, intermittent claudication patients account for 4.6% of the population aged 55-74 years, and the incidence increases significantly with age. Dr. Wang warned that middle-aged and elderly people should be alerted to the possibility of “intermittent claudication syndrome” if they notice the following symptoms. Seek medical attention as soon as possible, and seek thrombolytic treatment and control of the primary disease at the same time. Symptom 1: The legs are painful and uncomfortable when walking. However, when standing or sitting, the swelling and pain do not occur. Symptom 2: When walking up an inclined path or walking fast, the leg will be swollen and painful and uncomfortable. However, if you stand still, the pain or discomfort usually disappears within 10 minutes.