What Is a Cerebrovascular Accident?

Cerebrovascular accident is also called stroke or stroke. Sudden onset of illness, high mortality and disability, is one of the three major causes of death in the elderly. Rescue methods are critical. Failure to do so will aggravate the condition. Stroke can be divided into two types: cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral thrombosis. Cerebral hemorrhage mostly occurs after emotional excitement, excessive drinking, and overwork, and cerebral blood vessels rupture due to sudden rise in blood pressure. Cerebral hemorrhage mostly occurs during daytime activities. Before the onset, a few people had aura symptoms such as dizziness, headache, nosebleeds, and conjunctival hemorrhage, and had high blood pressure. After the patient suddenly fainted, he immediately appeared coma, flushed, crooked mouth and eyes staring at the bleeding side, paralysis of the bleeding contralateral limbs, fists, closed teeth, loud snoring, or pale face, open mouth, incontinence . Sometimes vomiting, severe with gastric bleeding, vomit is brown. Cerebral thrombosis usually occurs in a quiet state after sleep. Before the onset, there may be transient cerebral ischemia, such as dizziness, headache, sudden inability to speak, but soon recovered, limb numbness and feeling heavy. Often when I wake up in the morning, I suddenly feel half-body unconscious, most of my mind is awake, my pulse and breathing change significantly, and gradually develop into hemiplegia, monoplegia, aphasia and blindness. ^[1]

In the event of a stroke, the patient must stay in bed absolutely quietly (the head of a patient with cerebral hemorrhage is high), loosen the collar, head and body to one side to prevent oral secretions from flowing into the trachea, to keep the airway open, and rush to the nearest hospital for treatment. At the same time, it is necessary to avoid moving the patient forcibly, and especially pay attention to the stability of the head, otherwise the most favorable treatment opportunity will be missed and the rescue failure will be aggravated. ^[2]

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Eases arteriosclerosis and blood pressure, such as black fungus, white fungus, fruit juice, rice soup, vegetable juice, etc. Nasal feeding if necessary, eat less and avoid four more:

Four taboos

1) Avoid high sodium diet, eat less salt, daily intake should be less than 5 grams, because more sodium can increase blood pressure.

2) Avoid high-fat diets because high-fat foods can increase blood viscosity.

3) Avoid high sugar, eat less sweets, because sugar is still converted into fat in the body, but also increases blood viscosity.

4) Avoid tobacco and alcohol. Nicotine increases blood viscosity and alcohol can induce lipid metabolism disorders.

Summer is here. Many patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases have such a misunderstanding. They believe that summer blood pressure is the lowest in a year and the symptoms will be relatively stable.

At temperatures above 35 ° C, the mortality of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases has increased significantly. Summer is here. Many patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases have such a misunderstanding. They believe that summer blood pressure is the lowest in a year and the symptoms will be relatively stable. In fact, summer is the peak period of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Data show that after entering May, the hospitalization rate of stroke and coronary heart disease patients has increased significantly. In high-temperature weather above 35 ° C, the mortality of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases has increased significantly, so high temperatures are very harmful to patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease . This is because the human body's metabolism accelerates in summer, and the demand for oxygen and nutrients increases. However, at this time, the temperature is higher, the air humidity is higher, and the oxygen content is reduced, and the human body will disperse blood to the body surface for heat dissipation, so the heart and brain Reduced blood supply can aggravate ischemia and hypoxia. Due to the low air pressure, the human body sweats a lot, and the body loses a lot of water, which increases blood viscosity and impedes blood circulation, which easily induces cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as thrombosis, myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease, and stroke. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the same is true. The hot climate will cause people to lose energy and exhaust gas, causing qi and blood meridian clogging, leading to myocardial ischemia, arrhythmia, increased blood pressure, and even cranial Internal hemorrhage or myocardial infarction, and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents. So summer is here, we have to wake up the patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, please pay attention to the physical changes, you can also use some of the methods of traditional Chinese medicine to recuperate and live, to spend the summer safely. ^[3]