Cerebrovascular disease has become a very high rate of death and disability in China. According to statistics, every 21 seconds in China, one person dies of cerebrovascular disease!
Cerebrovascular health can be said to be a matter of great importance to everyone’s life safety.
Among all stroke patients in China, patients aged 40 ~ 64 years account for nearly 50%. In the high-risk population of stroke, people aged 40 ~ 64 accounted for more than 60%. This indicates that the trend of stroke in younger age is obvious in China.
Winter, is also the highest season of cerebrovascular disease, the incidence of cerebrovascular disease in winter is two times the usual! Once the brain haemorrhage can cause great damage to the body, such as hemiplegia, even coma and death.
The expert reminds, before cerebrovascular disease comes on, can have a lot of symptom, but because the symptom is lighter, easy to be ignored by people, especially to the population that itself has hypertension, below these 10 signals, must remember!
Three out of 10 symptoms need to be careful
The expert introduces, if these 10 symptoms appear below 3 above symptom, accompany the disease such as hypertension to want careful.
1, dizziness
This kind of serious dizziness often happens suddenly, the thing that sees the outside has turn move feeling, shake. Symptoms may last for different periods of time, depending on the individual. Some people have nausea or tinnitus.
- Short time of language difficulties and lack of energy
This kind of phenomenon often happens suddenly, short time, one or twenty seconds can pass; For a long time, it takes ten minutes or even hours to return to normal. After recovery, the patient leaves no sequelae. Remember, this is a precursor to cerebral ischemia.
- Sudden onset of severe headache
If hypertensive patients, suddenly appear severe headache, dizziness, accompanied by vomiting, to a high degree of suspicion of cerebrovascular disease. Your blood pressure should be taken immediately.
Even if this phenomenon disappears automatically in a short period of time, still need to be vigilant. If this happens repeatedly, patients may develop irreversible and reversible cerebral hemorrhage.
4, half numbness
If you often feel numbness on the left and right sides of the body, you should consider whether there is a problem with small blood vessels in the brain. If numbness is accompanied by weakness in the upper or lower extremities, the situation becomes more critical.
- Sudden amnesia
If the former things completely forgotten, but in a few hours after the improvement, in the forgotten heart nervous, to consider acute cerebrovascular disease attack precursors.
How can we avoid cerebrovascular collapse and protect cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health? Here’s a simple way to prevent it: Drink water!
Drink a cup of water before going to bed, can dilute blood viscosity, reduce myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, cerebral thrombosis and other sudden risks. For diabetics, staying hydrated can also help control blood sugar.
- Black eyes
Suddenly the eyes become black, or one eye appears blurred, see things blurred, or even appear double. These are the precursor of cerebral haemorrhage, so must not careless.
- Sleepiness during the day
Some people will develop symptoms of drowsiness before the onset of cerebral haemorrhage, even in the day when the spirit is very sleepy, very tired, sleep is not enough.
- Cough often
Coughing in the process of drinking or eating is also the precursor of many people’s brain haemorrhage.
- Yawning your Head off
Some patients also reported that they would not be able to stop yawning regardless of time and place. This is actually a sign of lack of oxygen in the brain.
10, the root of the tongue hard, mouth drooling
Suddenly the root of the tongue felt stiff, the tongue enlarged, unable to speak clearly, even tongue pain, swallowing difficulty. Suddenly drooling at one corner of his mouth, unable to speak or slurred his words.
Primary and secondary prevention of cerebral infarction
Primary prevention
- Stick to physical activities
Exercise can dilate blood vessels, accelerate blood flow, and can reduce blood viscosity and platelet aggregation, reduce thrombosis. Exercise can help prevent atherosclerosis by promoting lipid metabolism and raising the level of HDL cholesterol in the blood. People who exercise are significantly less likely to have a stroke.
- Control your diet
Eating a diet low in salt (up to 6g a day), low in fat and calories, and a simple diet consisting mainly of vegetables, fruits, beans, fish, coarse rice or flour, rich in unsaturated fatty acids, carotene and vitamin E, can reduce the risk of stroke.
- Quit smoking and limit alcohol
Smokers have twice the risk of stroke as nonsmokers. Drinking more than 60 grams of ethanol per day significantly increased the risk of stroke. Ethanol can cause strokes by raising blood pressure, causing high blood clotting, arrhythmias, and lowering blood flow to the brain.
Maintain a good lifestyle
Regular physical examination, self-adjustment of work pressure and psychological tension, strive to achieve psychological balance, the rule of life. Blood pressure, blood lipid, blood glucose and weight should be measured regularly, risk factors should be identified as soon as possible, and prevention and control measures should be taken as soon as possible.
- Pay attention to seasonal protection
Cold weather is stroke season, vasoconstriction, blood pressure is easy to rise, to pay attention to keep warm, make the body adapt to climate change, but also according to their health conditions, some appropriate physical exercise, such as walking, do radio gymnastics, in order to promote blood circulation.
Secondary prevention
- Pay attention to stroke prognosis
Some patients often have some symptoms several hours or several days before stroke, such as limb numbness, tingling, transient blackness, headache, dizziness, slurred speech, salivation, etc., once found should be timely medical treatment, can effectively prevent stroke.
- Hypertension and diabetes
Reducing diastolic blood pressure by 5~6mmHg can reduce the incidence of stroke by 42%. After systematic antihypertensive treatment, all stroke patients reduced by 38% and severe stroke patients by 34%. Blood pressure control is mainly to be stable, so that the “peak” and “trough” of blood pressure within 24 hours are close to each other, so as to avoid damage to the blood vessel wall caused by blood pressure fluctuation.
The risk of stroke in diabetic patients is 1 times higher than that of peers with normal blood sugar. Actively prevent and treat hypertension and diabetes, persist in taking antihypertensive drugs and hypoglycemic drugs, and make long-term follow-up visits in relevant departments.
- Heart disease
Organic heart disease is easy to form vegetations or thrombus, fall off after the blockage of cerebral blood vessels, cerebral embolism.
- Hyperlipidemia
Elevated levels of cholesterol and LDL are among the most risk factors for stroke. Lipid-lowering drugs can reduce the risk of stroke after a heart attack by 30 percent.
5, inflammation,
The most common examples are vasculitis with syphilis and herpes zoster infection.
Emergency treatment for stroke
Medical staff suggested that stroke patients after the onset of 3 to 4 hours is the “golden rescue period”, so the correct treatment is particularly important.
If the occurrence of stroke is suspected, it is not recommended that the patient take medication privately, and the patient’s family members should accurately record the onset time of the patient. Do a good job of patient comfort, then quickly dial 120 or 999, quickly transferred to the hospital, handed over to a professional doctor for the latter step of treatment.
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