When it comes to the topic of cerebral infarction, everyone will always think of the crowd of sevens and eighties. But in recent years, many young people have also had sudden cerebral infarction.
The emergency department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University once treated a cerebral infarction patient, who was only 14 years old and still in junior high school. In this regard, Xiong Shensheng, chief physician of the emergency department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, said that the reason why the teenager had a sudden cerebral infarction was inseparable from his bad living habits - often staying up late, drinking drinks for a long time, and eventually leading to cerebral infarction.
In 2020, NEJM published a stroke risk study, the data spanned from 1990 to 2016, and Chinese topped the global stroke risk list, with a risk probability of up to 40%. That is, 4 out of every 10 Chinese have a stroke. What is even more frightening is that compared with developed countries, the age of onset in China is 10 years earlier.
Why are there more and more cerebral infarctions? It is likely to be related to the diet structure of our "foodie" country, and clinical investigations have found that most patients with cerebral infarction have similar eating habits...
Cerebral infarction, also known as ischemic stroke, is a disease in which blood vessels flowing into the brain are suddenly blocked, resulting in blocked blood circulation and causing necrosis of brain cells. Failure to intervene appropriately at an early stage is likely to leave a legacy or death.
So, what does cerebral infarction have to do with "eating"? You know, the blood vessels in our brains are very fragile and narrow. If you consume too much food every day that can cause blood viscosity, it will accelerate the accumulation of blood fat, cause blood vessel blockage, and induce cerebral infarction. In particular, many people love the following foods:
Sugary drinks: A study in the United States found that drinking sugary drinks increased mortality; a Harvard University study on sugar and health also found that drinking 1-2 sugary drinks a day increased the risk of sudden death by 35% and the risk of stroke by 16%.
If you consume too much sugar every day, these substances can cause rapid rise in blood sugar, which can easily lead to metabolic diseases such as obesity, and eventually cause cerebral infarction. The 14-year-old boy in the opening chapter, precisely because he likes to drink drinks very much, "provokes" a brain infarction at a young age.
High-salt foods: Salt is an indispensable condiment, but eating too much can also be detrimental to cardiovascular diseases. Studies have shown that 9.5% of cardiovascular metabolic deaths are related to salt, too much salt to raise blood pressure, reduce blood vessel elasticity, also make blood become viscous, accelerate blood vessel blockage.
Processed meat: Processed meat is also a high-sugar and high-salt food, which requires salting, air drying, fermentation, seasoning and other processing during the processing process. For 50-year-olds, diabetes risk is associated with eating more red meat every day. Stroke is inseparable from diabetes, obesity, and hypertension.
Cerebral infarction is a common sudden disease in life, although the onset is more urgent, but there are generally traces before the attack, especially when sleeping, the following 5 abnormal manifestations appear, it is necessary to improve vigilance.
1. Headache
When sleeping, brain and limb activity is reduced, blood viscosity is higher, blood clots are more likely to form, blood vessels are blocked, and patients feel a persistent headache.
2. Numbness in hands and feet
When sleeping, I obviously did not press my limbs, but I frequently experienced numbness in my hands and feet. The two peripheral parts of the hands and feet will be numb on the left and right sides due to poor blood circulation.
3. Unilateral drooling
The phenomenon of unconscious drooling when sleeping should also be vigilant against the blockage of cerebral blood vessels. Due to the influence of central facial paralysis, muscle weakness causes the tongue to be unable to control itself.
4. Frequent yawns
When the brain is hypoxic, there is often a yawn. Excluding the effects of poor air circulation and lack of sleep, frequent yawning, it is necessary to pay attention to, it is likely that the blood flow slows down, the blood volume decreases, and the brain blood supply is insufficient, resulting in the manifestation of hypoxia.
5. The vision is black
When one eye or both eyes are black, things are suddenly invisible, and the cerebral blood supply is insufficient, it is easy to cause transient dizziness and confusion in the eyes.
Cerebral infarction is not an exclusive disease of middle-aged and elderly people, and Dr. Li Li of the Interventional Department of Henan Provincial People's Hospital reminded that these young people are also prone to cerebral infarction if they do not correct their bad habits in time.
One is people who love to smoke: smoking is an independent risk factor for cerebral atherosclerosis, and most young patients in the clinic have a certain smoking age.
The second is people who love to stay up late and eat irregularly: staying up late, living irregularly, working and living under pressure is also one of the risk factors that cause cerebral infarction, and the body cannot rest when it is rested, which will cause nervous excitement and lipid metabolism disorders, which will eventually lead to elevated blood lipids and blood vessel blockage.
The third is patients with hyperhomocysteinemia: hyperhomocysteinemia is also an independent risk factor for cerebral infarction, even if the patient does not have diabetes, hyperglycemia and other underlying diseases, but if they suffer from this disease, it can also cause cerebral infarction.
The food is delicious, but if it is due to greed, spreading the "cerebral infarction" is not worth the loss. Having said all this, if you want to prevent cerebral infarction, how should you eat it? In fact, the main memory of 16 words: lighter, less spicy, meat and vegetarian collocation, nutritional balance.
Fresh vegetables and fruits contain a lot of nutrients, of which vitamins, magnesium, potassium, etc. can improve the body's metabolic rate and reduce the regulation of cholesterol. In addition, in the daily diet, vegetable oil can be used instead of animal oil, and the unsaturated fats in vegetable oil can effectively reduce cholesterol and prevent arterial clots.
Of course, in addition to preventing cerebral infarction, we must also maintain good habits of body and mind, pay attention to the combination of work and leisure, appropriate exercise, quit smoking and alcohol, peace of mind, do the above points, cerebral infarction is naturally "afraid" of you.
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