Reminder: There are 4 kinds of unprovoked manifestations, most of which are 'help' signals of cerebral infarction. It is recommended to check CT as soon as possible
Xiao Zhang is an IT practitioner. He often works overtime, especially at the end of the year. He is so busy that he often lacks sleep. Sometimes he may sleep less than 4 hours a day.
At the beginning of last month, when Xiao Zhang was working, he suddenly developed symptoms of inability to move his right hand and slurred speech. After the colleague found out, he quickly dialed 120 and sent Xiao Zhang to the nearest hospital.
The inspection found that Xiao Zhang suffered an acute cerebral infarction, and the hospital immediately carried out surgery to clear the blocked cerebral blood vessels. During the operation, the doctor found that Xiao Zhang's blood vessels lacked elasticity, like those of an elderly person in his 60s. Zhang is only 28 years old this year.
The doctor guessed that this may be related to his irregular meals and irregular work and rest.
1. Why are more and more young people suffering from cerebral infarction?
According to the World Health Organization, there are 13 million cerebral infarction patients in the world every year, and 1 in 6 people suffers from cerebral infarction. Among them, there are 5.51 million cerebral infarction patients in China, accounting for 40% of the world's total .
Cerebral infarction, also known as stroke, is an acute cerebrovascular disease caused by sudden rupture of blood vessels in the brain, or blockage of blood vessels, and cerebral ischemia leads to necrosis of brain tissue, resulting in sudden disease.
The harm of cerebral infarction is relatively large, which will affect the patient's activities, vision, thinking and other abilities, and in the most serious case, the patient will die.
90% of cerebral infarction is related to unhealthy lifestyle . Such as emotional agitation, lack of exercise, eating high-purine, high-fat foods, overweight, smoking and drinking.
Some patients are also related to diseases, such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, fatty liver, sleep apnea, etc.
Second, the advent of cerebral infarction is not without symptoms
In the eyes of many people, cerebral infarction is a sudden disease without the slightest warning, like an "accident", but in fact, before a cerebral infarction occurs, the body will have these warnings:
1. Blurred vision
Some patients with cerebral infarction may have blurred vision due to plaque blockage. The elderly treat it as presbyopia and glaucoma, and often ignore this symptom.
2. Drinking water and choking
Because the brain is connected to this swallowing function, when the brain area is damaged, swallowing and coughing will be disturbed, and patients are prone to choking and swallowing difficulties when drinking water.
3. Headache, dizziness
Some elderly people with a history of hypertension also often experience dizziness, or patients with cerebral infarction also experience dizziness. Once the blood pressure is unstable, there are signs of headache and dizziness, you should be alerted immediately.
4, limb numbness, or even paralysis
When there is numbness on one side of the body, as if ants are crawling, it should be associated with a cerebral infarction.
Some patients may not have obvious ant-walking feeling, but they will often find that they are often prone to falling, or that it is not easy to grasp chopsticks and spoons firmly, and when they raise their hands, they shake constantly... If these situations occur, one should also be vigilant.
3. How to prevent cerebral infarction? Start with everyday life
There are various posts on the prevention of cerebral infarction on the Internet, and even a star even issued a "bloodletting therapy", but it was later clarified that it was an urgent measure and did not want to mislead everyone. So what is the correct way to prevent cerebral infarction?
1 Eat more potassium-rich fruits and vegetables
In the stroke prevention guidelines, it is mentioned that fruit and vegetable intake can reduce the risk of stroke; while higher intake of sodium is associated with an increased risk of stroke, and higher intake of potassium is associated with a lower risk of stroke.
Therefore, it is recommended to control the amount of salt, not more than 6 grams per day, to ensure that one catty of vegetables and half a catty of fruits every day, you can choose some fruits and vegetables rich in potassium, such as green vegetables, bananas, kelp, etc.
2 30 minutes of aerobic exercise a day
Insist on exercising every day, insist on at least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise, and pay attention to the regularity of work and rest, not to be overworked, and to maintain a peaceful mind.
Cerebral infarction occurs, don't panic, seize the golden rescue time
Once it is suspected that a patient has suffered a cerebral infarction or has related symptoms, call 120 for help as soon as possible, and send the patient to the hospital as soon as possible. Before the ambulance arrives, keep the patient supine and do not move too much.
References: .
[1] "When these 4 symptoms appear, beware of cerebral infarction, and 5 kinds of food cannot be touched". Listen to Dr. Li. 2020-08-28
[2] "Have the "source" of cerebral infarction been found? Or save millions of lives! 》. Popular Science China. 2022-05-18
[3] "Male star father's cerebral infarction, can "acupuncture and bloodletting" be cured? The doctor said so...". Health Times. 2020-06-22
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