With the increase of people's health awareness, many people have begun to pay attention to vascular health.
As an important transportation channel in the human body, blood vessels generally shoulder the role of transporting oxygen and nutrients, which can not only provide nutrients for important organs of our body, but also excrete some metabolites from the body through blood vessels.
Due to the varying sizes of blood vessels, the thinnest blood vessels may be thinner than a human hair, so they can easily become clogged and affect the function of vital organs. However, because blood vessels are deep inside the human body, it is difficult for us to visually see whether they are healthy or not.
I once treated a patient in his seventies, the patient is usually in good health, no one expected that one day during morning exercises, the patient suddenly became dizzy and almost fell to the ground.
It wasn't until I went to the hospital for an examination that I learned that he had a blocked blood vessel. Because the lining of his blood vessels had accumulated a lot of fat and cholesterol, and plaque had formed, the blood vessels became narrower and narrower, and eventually became clogged.
In fact, before the onset of the disease, the patient already had corresponding symptoms, but because he rarely got sick, he didn't pay much attention to it, let alone pay attention to these small details. If it weren't for the family to find out early and send them to the hospital for treatment in time, the consequences would be really unimaginable.
There are five reasons why blood vessels are clogged!
To put it in layman's terms, the organs and cells in our body are equivalent to "cities", and blood vessels are equivalent to "highways", which are responsible for transporting blood and oxygen to all corners to achieve the sustainable development of these "cities".
But as time went on, the "road", which was smooth at first, became more and more congested for various reasons. There are many causes of blood vessel blockage, which are mainly divided into five aspects.
(1) Athesclerosis
Atherosclerosis is the most common cause of blood vessel blockage, which refers to damage to the endothelium of blood vessels, where lipids in the blood are deposited on the walls of the blood vessels, eventually forming plaques. Over time, the accumulation of plaque leads to narrowing of the blood vessels and eventually blockages.
(2) Age
As we age, the walls of blood vessels in the human body become more hardened and slowly lose their elasticity, which ultimately affects the function of blood vessels.
(3) Bad habits
This mainly includes poor eating habits and bad habits, such as long-term smoking, the chemicals in tobacco may damage the vascular endothelium and promote thrombosis, which in turn increases blood viscosity.
At the same time, a diet high in fat, sugar and salt can also increase the level of bad cholesterol in the blood, which in turn promotes the formation of atherosclerosis.
(4) Disease
This refers to factors such as high blood pressure and high blood sugar, which can cause damage to the lining of blood vessels and accelerate the progression of atherosclerosis.
(5) Chronic inflammation
Chronic inflammation persists and can lead to damage to blood vessels and the formation of plaques.
There are 5 symptoms in the head, and the blood vessels may be blocked, so check them as soon as possible!
(1) Sudden blurred vision
Blockage of cerebral blood vessels can affect the blood supply to the eye tissues, causing symptoms such as blurred vision, decreased vision, visual field defects, and eye pain, and patients should see not only ophthalmologists but also neurologists.
(2) Suddenly the corners of the mouth are crooked
When we pick up the mirror and look at it, we find that our whole face suddenly looks asymmetrical, or when we make a baring tooth movement, and the two corners of the mouth are obviously asymmetrical for no reason, we should consider that the cerebral blood vessels are blocked.
(3) Sudden slurred speech
The most common manifestation of this part of the patient in daily life is that he cannot say his name, such as looking at the table in front of him, but he can't say that it is a table, and he often needs to express it through various descriptions.
(4) Sudden memory loss
When seeing memory loss, most people will associate it with Alzheimer's disease, but they don't know that cerebral vascular blockage may also lead to memory loss, which is generally related to long-term ischemia and hypoxia of brain cells. These patients often present with a sudden and noticeable memory loss in the short term, often unable to remember events that have just happened, and may also present with difficulty concentrating.
(5) Headache without warning
Because the brain has a high demand for blood and oxygen, when the blood vessels in the brain are blocked, the supply of blood and oxygen will be affected, and the brain will have uncomfortable symptoms, which usually manifest as severe headaches.
Especially in the early stages of a blockage, patients are likely to experience a brief headache, which becomes more frequent and lasts longer as the blockage worsens.
2 ways to self-check whether the blood vessels are "blocked"!
(1) Raise your leg for 1 minute
Lie flat on the bed with one leg too high at 70-80° for one minute, then hang your leg naturally down on the edge of the bed and finally observe the change in the color of the legs.
If the legs and feet are found to be pale and waxy when elevated, and the normal blood color does not return to within 45 seconds after the legs are sagging, and the color of the legs and feet is uneven, it means that the arterial blood supply is likely to have been disordered, and it should be paid attention to.
(2) Fist shake 30 seconds
Clench your hand tightly into a fist for 30 seconds, then open your palm and observe the change in the color of your palm. If the palm of the hand can quickly return to its original color, the fingertips quickly turn red and the temperature returns, it is often a sign that the heart blood vessels and blood pressure are in a relatively good state. On the contrary, if it takes a long time, even tens of seconds to a minute, to recover, it may indicate that the elasticity of blood vessels is poor and needs to be paid attention to.
Finally, it is important to find problems, but how to solve them is equally important.