Recently, a family member of a patient consulted me. Didn’t it be that before cerebral infarction, patients may experience typical symptoms such as blurred viewing, sudden fall, crooked corners of the mouth, unclear speech, and hemiplegia on one side of the limb?
But why did my father suddenly fail, and his condition is very serious. The reasons for this phenomenon are mainly closely related to the following two points:
First, the early symptoms are mild or atypical, and the patients do not pay enough attention. For example, some patients have blurred their views, which may be both a brain disease or an ophthalmic disease.
Ophthalmic diseases, such as glaucoma , keratitis , cataract , and diabetic fundus lesions can lead to this symptoms. The most typical brain disease is acute stroke, which is caused by cerebral infarction or cerebral hemorrhage , causing problems in the visual pathway.
Both of these conditions require patients to seek medical treatment in a timely manner, and a professional doctor and relevant examination can only be confirmed for diagnosis. In real life, many patients suddenly have blurred vision, which does not attract enough attention and does not take it seriously.
In addition to this, for example, some patients have atypical symptoms such as dizziness, drowsiness, choking and coughing when drinking water, and numbness on one limb, which may also be warning signals for cerebral infarction.
Second, the body has compensated. In clinical practice, we have seen many patients with internal carotid artery stenosis on one side has exceeded 90%, but there are no symptoms in daily life.
This situation may be that there is a rich collateral circulation around severe stenosis or completely occluded blood vessels that can compensate and maintain blood flow supply to the brain.
However, once this balance is broken and the collateral circulation cannot be compensated, the patient may face severe cerebral infarction of either dead or disabled.
. If you want to deal with the above two situations, clinical recommendations are that you should have regular physical examinations at around 40 years old. To find out in advance whether there are diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, , hyperlipidemia, hyperuricemia, hyperhomocysteinemia, atrial fibrillation, etc. that can lead to cerebral infarction.
Discover problems early and intervene in time to treat them. The probability of cerebral infarction in the next 5 or 10 years is very low.
prevent cerebral infarction, pay more attention to 6 details in daily life
1. Seven or eight points full, light diet
0 It is best to eat 7 or eight points full per meal, and control the intake of high- triglycerides and high-cholesterol foods such as fat meat and animal offal.
7-minute fullness: The stomach is not full, but the enthusiasm for food has decreased, and the speed of active eating has also slowed down. But habitually want to eat more, but if you remove the food and change the topic, you will soon forget to eat.
2. Do not exert too hard for defecation
Even if the stool is dry and difficult to discharge, do not exert too hard. Before defecation, you can perform "slow breathing exercise" for 5 to 10 minutes, adjust your breathing to 10 to 12 times per minute, preferably abdominal breathing, which can promote gastrointestinal motility. At the same time, open your mouth and breathe deeply during defecation, which is conducive to the relaxation of the anus.
3. If you don’t exercise too much,
It is best to do mild aerobic exercises such as brisk walking and jogging. It is best for the elderly and those with poor heart to participate in competitive sports.
4. Beware of sudden myocardial infarction in the morning
It is best to have gentle and slow movements after getting up in the morning. It is best to sit by the bed for 2 minutes before standing up, and to replenish water in time. Patients with hypertension should take antihypertensive drugs as prescribed by the doctor and pay attention to controlling the early morning blood pressure .
5. Pay attention to keeping warm
There is a high incidence of myocardial infarction in winter, and patients with cardiovascular diseases should be vigilant. Keep warm when going out. Focus on protecting the head, hands and feet. Don’t rush to take off your clothes when you return indoors, and try to minimize fluctuations in your blood pressure.
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