Can you drink alcohol in small amounts if you have a mild cerebral infarction?

Patients with mild cerebral infarction should not drink a small amount of alcohol, and patients should keep abstaining from alcohol to prevent the condition from being aggravated by alcohol. Patients should maintain a light diet and follow the doctor’s instructions for medication and other treatments. Patients with cerebral infarction have blood circulation disorder in the brain. Patients may have symptoms such as dizziness, headache, sudden fainting, hemiplegia (inability to move one side of the limb), etc. Drinking alcohol will make the patient’s nerves excited. Drinking alcohol will make the patient’s nerves excited and blood pressure rise, which may lead to the worsening of the degree of cerebral infarction, so it is not recommended that the patient drink alcohol. It is recommended that patients should abstain from smoking and drinking, maintain a light and nutritionally balanced diet, and follow the doctor’s instructions to use intravenous edaravone injection, cytarabine and other neuroprotective drugs to promote the recovery of cerebral infarction. Usually, patients should keep the blood pressure and blood lipid value in the normal range, and go to the hospital for rechecking on a regular basis. It is recommended that patients with mild cerebral infarction should take good care of their daily life, keep abstaining from alcohol, and go to the hospital as soon as possible if they have any uncomfortable symptoms.