Mr. Chen, who lives in ~kou district, opened a trading company with a friend 2 years ago, and is usually busy working and socializing. One morning half a month ago, Mr. Chen suddenly mouth and eyes askew, hands and feet also some disobedience, family members rushed him to the hospital, the doctor diagnosed Mr. Chen’s family was astonished: he was less than 40 years old, how can get a stroke this disease of old age?
With the change of lifestyle, stroke has long been on the young, and now it is not uncommon to see stroke patients in their twenties and thirties.
The risk factors for stroke in young people are not only high blood pressure, alcoholism, smoking, excessive nightlife and high-fat diet, but also metabolic abnormalities, blood diseases and heart diseases.
To prevent stroke in young people, in addition to finding the original disease and treating it promptly, correcting unhealthy lifestyles is the key.
How to do the stroke screening
For initial screening, ultrasound is used to examine the carotid artery, which is simple and non-invasive. If the stenosis is found to be more severe, cerebral angiography can be performed and combined with cerebrovascular interventional techniques, thrombolysis or arterial stents can be installed.
If the degree of cerebral stenosis is less severe, a healthy lifestyle such as reducing fat intake, less salt diet, and proper exercise, together with medication to control hypertension, can prevent stroke; when the degree of stenosis exceeds 50%, some patients can be treated by interventional thrombolysis; when the degree of stenosis exceeds 70%, artificial stents can be installed to prevent stroke.
As long as annual vascular screening, assessment and timely treatment, even for high-risk groups, stroke can be effectively prevented.
Eight categories of people should be screened annually
People with one of the following risk factors should be screened annually for stroke: a family history of cerebrovascular disease; coronary heart disease and “three highs”; poor lifestyle habits, smoking, alcohol abuse; long-term stressful work; patients with atrial fibrillation and heart valve disease; significantly overweight; people with frequent dizziness and headaches and memory loss; and people over 60 years old. The elderly aged 60 years or older.
Among them, a family history of cerebrovascular disease is an uncontrollable risk factor for stroke, but as long as you adhere to annual physical examinations, you can determine the risk of developing the disease in advance. If you are diagnosed as a high-risk group for stroke and have a high risk factor, you should follow the doctor’s instructions to take medication, learn to live a healthy life, and have regular reviews, once every three months for general patients and once every half month or once a month for patients receiving drug interventions, and your doctor will adjust the medication according to the side effects of the drug; patients with a low risk factor should make adjustments in diet and exercise to minimize the risk of stroke.
Keep warm in winter to prevent stroke
For people at risk of stroke, besides adhering to treatment, what other methods can be used to reduce the risk of developing a stroke?
People at risk, including healthy people, should adhere to medical checkups and regularly measure blood pressure and check blood lipids and blood sugar. It is advisable to eat a light diet, with less animal fat or cholesterol-rich foods, more fruits and vegetables, and moderate amounts of beans and fish.
Young people, in particular, should learn to live a healthy life, quit smoking and limit alcohol, eat regularly and insist on exercise. Whenever the season changes and cools down, older people should pay attention to keeping warm to avoid accidents due to drastic fluctuations in blood pressure.
Infusion can not prevent stroke
In clinical treatment, many neurologists find that patients will “create their own” some stroke prevention tricks, but often fail to achieve the preventive effect.
Every fall and winter, many people go to the hospital for infusions, believing that this can reduce blood viscosity and reduce the risk of stroke and other diseases. Peng Xiaoxiang explained, if there is no stroke symptoms, just a simple intravenous infusion, there is no help for patients, but may cause adverse reactions to the infusion. The key to prevent the occurrence of stroke is scientific treatment and change bad habits, blind infusion is not necessary.
In addition, claiming to protect blood vessels, heart and brain health care products, is the preferred gift of children’s filial piety to the elderly, but Peng Xiaoxiang reminded the elderly long-term use of health care products can not replace drugs to prevent stroke, patients must comply with medical advice to adhere to the medication, not arbitrarily reduce the amount, stop the medication. High-risk groups should also regularly test blood pressure, blood sugar and other treatments, pay attention to the development of the disease, do not take health care products as a “panacea”.
Three movements and a look to prevent stroke
Move the left hand The long-term use of the right hand will overload the left hemisphere, resulting in neural fatigue and vascular tension, memory loss, while the right hemisphere is not better exercise, coordination function is weakened, prone to stroke. From now on, learn to let the left hand do what it can, such as frying with a spatula, holding the phone, walking or watching TV with an empty grip.
Shrug your shoulders Every morning and evening, do the action of lifting and lowering your shoulders, while slowly turning your head. This can relax the nerves, blood vessels and muscles in the shoulders, activate the blood circulation, promote smooth blood flow in the carotid artery or brain, and indirectly relieve brain fatigue.
Pinch the neck After the hands are heated by friction, gently press and pinch the left and right sides of the neck and the back, so that the skin gradually loosens. It can promote relaxation of neck muscles, reduce cholesterol deposition, promote relaxation of neck blood vessels, and improve blood supply to the brain.
Watch the weather forecast It is important for the elderly to develop the habit of watching the weather forecast every day to keep away from strokes. Put on more clothes before the temperature plummets, and don’t wait until after you get cold to add more clothes. When going out on cold days, wear hats, scarves and gloves to try to avoid cold stimulation that can trigger a stroke by making the sympathetic nerves excited.