A 45-year-old man suddenly fell unconscious, was sent to the hospital 15 minutes later, through examination, the doctor found that the culprit that caused the man to fall into a coma was a massive cerebral infarction, in view of the critical condition, the patient was sent to the intensive care unit, after ten days and ten nights of doctors' full rescue, but unfortunately died.
As a doctor, I often say that cerebral infarction is very terrible, and many times, the consequences of cerebral infarction are either death or disability, and if there will be a period of time for death caused by cancer, such as a year, two years, or even longer, then the death caused by cerebral infarction may be in an instant or just a few days.
According to the China Stroke Report 2019, 1.57 million people died of stroke in mainland China in 2018, accounting for about one-third of the global stroke deaths and 22.3% of all causes of death in mainland China, and has become the leading cause of death and disability among mainland residents.
Many people have this question, doctor, why is the mortality rate caused by cerebral infarction so high?
The main reason is that the brain is the headquarters of the human body, and any part of the brain is crucial, so even a small infarction can cause terrible consequences. Even if many people have the symptoms of cerebral infarction, but they delay again and again, and miss the best time for treatment, we should keep in mind that the golden thrombolysis time of cerebral infarction is 4 hours after the onset of the disease, if it exceeds this time, conservative treatment can only be taken.
How can cerebral infarction be prevented in time?
As a doctor, my advice to everyone is that middle-aged and elderly people can do 7 things to stay away from cerebral infarction.
1. Middle-aged and elderly people must control their blood pressure
Hypertension is the most common and important cause of cerebral infarction, and long-term poor blood pressure control can easily lead to cerebral atherosclerosis, which will eventually lead to a greatly increased risk of cerebral infarction.
Therefore, in order to prevent cerebral infarction, we must control blood pressure, in the mainland, every 4 adults have 1 hypertensive patient, unfortunately, many hypertensive patients, simply unwilling to take medicine, long-term ignorance of hypertension, is an important factor leading to cerebral infarction.
2. Middle-aged and elderly people must control their blood sugar
There are two chronic diseases that are closely related to the occurrence of cerebral infarction, one is hypertension and the other is diabetes.
Long-term hyperglycemia can easily lead to atherosclerosis, and if blood sugar is not well controlled, atherosclerosis will become more and more serious, and the risk of cerebral infarction will be greatly increased.
In addition to maintaining good eating habits, middle-aged and elderly people should also adhere to scientific treatment methods, give scientific hypoglycemic treatment, take medicine when they should take medicine, use insulin when they should use insulin, and be sure not to shy away from medical treatment.
3. Middle-aged and elderly people must have a low-salt and low-fat diet
In order to stay away from cerebral infarction, middle-aged and elderly people must keep in mind that low salt and low fat are very important.
A long-term high-salt diet can easily induce high blood pressure, and a long-term high-fat diet can easily lead to hyperlipidemia and diabetes, which will have a fatal impact on the cerebral blood vessels.
4. Middle-aged and elderly people must quit smoking
Long-term smoking, is a serious damage to the cerebral blood vessels, cigarettes are rich in a variety of harmful substances, including tar, nicotine, benzopyrene, etc., cigarettes will also release carbon monoxide, sulfur-containing compounds when burning, these will cause different degrees of damage to the cerebral blood vessels, so that the risk of cerebral infarction greatly increases.
5. Middle-aged and elderly people must insist on exercising
Many people, people in middle age have a big belly, abdominal obesity will increase the risk of cerebral infarction, so middle-aged and elderly people must control their body and adhere to regular exercise habits.
6. Middle-aged and elderly people must quit drinking
People who drink alcohol for a long time may not have good cerebrovascular diseases, because alcohol abuse is easy to induce high blood pressure, and alcohol abuse can also interfere with fat metabolism, which will induce atherosclerosis.
7. Middle-aged and elderly people must have regular work and rest
For middle-aged and elderly people, if you want to have a better brain, it is very important to maintain a regular work and rest habit, if you stay up late for a long time, it is easy to increase blood pressure, and eventually it is easy to induce cerebral infarction.