What exactly is carotid plaque? How dangerous is it? Will it fall off on its own? A piece of science!
Everyone must have heard of a disease called "cerebral infarction", which actually refers to a type of stroke!
You must know that the human brain has a considerable demand for blood. There are mainly four blood vessels supplying blood to the brain, namely two carotid arteries and two carotid arteries. Once these arteries become extremely narrow due to atherosclerosis, Or sudden thrombus formation will block the normal blood supply to the brain tissue , resulting in ischemia and oxygen necrosis of the brain tissue, resulting in cerebral infarction.
It is affected by the etiology of cerebral infarction, which is also called "ischemic stroke" clinically.
This is a chronic disease based on atherosclerosis , and the reason for thrombosis in arteries is actually affected by arterial plaque . That is to say, there is plaque in the originally unobstructed carotid artery, so the question is, what is the carotid artery plaque, and will it fall off and disappear on its own?
Carotid plaque is actually one of the manifestations of atherosclerosis in the blood vessels of the neck of the human body . Once the plaques appear, the blood vessels become narrower and narrower, which in turn affects the normal blood supply to the brain tissue . Therefore, from a clinical point of view, carotid plaque is closely related to the occurrence of cerebral infarction.
Everyone may think that since carotid plaque is a garbage substance attached to the blood vessel wall, as long as it falls off naturally, it can clean up the blood vessel. But in fact, only very small arterial plaque can be absorbed by the blood vessels and dissipate on their own . Most plaques will exist on the inner wall of blood vessels for a long time and will not disappear on their own.
After the plaque falls off, it will not be metabolized by blood vessels immediately. You must know that there is a complete coagulation and hemolysis system in the human body, and extremely small thrombi may indeed be removed by the hemolysis system.
However, plaques are not the same . Once the plaques fall off, the coagulation system will quickly begin to gather, and platelets and coagulation factors act on the plaques to form thrombi in an instant. In this case, a sudden onset of cerebral infarction is likely to occur.
In this case, is there really nothing we can do in the face of large carotid plaques?
1. Improve bad habits
In fact, what everyone really needs to be vigilant about is the crisis behind arterial plaque, so our control of arterial plaque is all to reduce the chance of future cerebral infarction.
From a clinical point of view, in order to prevent cerebral infarction, it is necessary to develop good living habits. Everyone should stop smoking and drinking, work and rest regularly, maintain a light and balanced diet, exercise more, and control weight in daily life . Only in this way In order to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood, prevent the further development of plaque;
2. Control underlying diseases
The appearance of atherosclerosis is not only related to genetics and age , but also affected by the three high diseases.
Whether it is hypertension, hyperlipidemia or diabetes , it will cause damage to the arterial endothelium , among which hyperlipidemia is the main risk factor. Therefore, as long as it is diagnosed as such a disease, it is necessary to actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment.
Finally, I would like to remind everyone that there are many health products on the Internet and in life that advertise that they can eliminate plaque and reverse blood clots, and some so-called health clubs claim that they can eliminate blood clots through massage.
But in fact, this is all false propaganda. You must know that there is currently no clinical cure for atherosclerosis and plaque. It is obviously unrealistic to try to eliminate blood clots through health products and massage, and everyone should avoid being fooled.