What is the cause of such terrible cerebral blood supply deficiency? Is there any way to improve it? Don't worry, we'll make it clear to you once.
Cerebral blood supply deficiency is a common chronic cerebrovascular disease in middle-aged and elderly people, also known as chronic cerebral ischemia. This concept was first put forward by Japanese doctors, which refers to a series of diseases with brain dysfunction as clinical manifestations caused by chronic and extensive blood supply deficiency in the brain due to various reasons.
But strictly speaking, cerebral ischemia is not a disease, but a series of symptoms.
With the accelerated pace of life and lifestyle changes, the number of patients with chronic cerebral blood supply deficiency has increased year by year. What year's data? According to statistics, 80% of the elderly over 80 years old have different degrees of symptoms of cerebral blood supply deficiency, and 2/3 of the people over 60 years old have a history of cerebral blood supply deficiency.
Chronic cerebral blood supply insufficiency-the invisible health killer of middle-aged and elderly people. According to the research, the common clinical causes are as follows.
1, arteriosclerosis
Cerebral blood supply insufficiency is generally closely related to arteriosclerosis caused by hyperlipidemia, hypertension and hyperglycemia.
In addition, smoking, excessive drinking, sedentary, high-fat diet and other bad habits may lead to thick blood, inflammation of blood vessels, plaque on blood vessel walls, cerebral atherosclerosis and vascular stenosis, and reduce blood supply to brain tissue.
The most direct impact of atherosclerosis is the weakening of brain function coordination, the slow connection between brain and cerebellum, and the phenomenon of uncoordinated hands and feet and slurred speech.
Many middle-aged and elderly people blindly take medicine to suppress their illness when there is a problem, which is actually delaying the best treatment time.
2. Cervical lesions
Many people don't associate cervical spondylosis with cerebral blood supply insufficiency. It is considered that these two diseases are unrelated.
Many patients with cervical spondylosis have symptoms of dizziness, headache and numbness of limbs. This is because the carotid artery supplies blood to the brain from the cervical vertebra, and cervical spondylosis sometimes oppresses the carotid artery, which affects the blood supply to the brain and eventually leads to the symptoms of insufficient blood supply to the brain.
3. cardiovascular diseases
As an important organ of the human body, the heart will provide some pressure for the flow of blood, and then the blood of the body will run to all parts of the body.
People with coronary heart disease have a narrow cardiovascular system, and the blood pumped from the heart is relatively reduced each time, so the blood supplied to the brain will naturally decrease.
Weak cardiac contractions in patients with heart failure and incomplete cardiac contractions in patients with atrial fibrillation will both reduce the blood output of the heart, thus affecting the blood supply to the brain.
There is also hypertension in middle-aged and elderly people. If they blindly seek rapid and low blood pressure, when the blood pressure is lower than 90/60 mmHg, it will obviously affect the cerebral blood flow and cause discomfort.
If the blood pressure is too low, the blood volume pumped by the heart will decrease, and there is not enough power to push the blood forward. This can easily lead to insufficient blood perfusion in the whole body, and of course it can also lead to insufficient blood supply to the brain.
It can be seen that for patients with hypertension, there is no need to rush to reduce blood pressure, so as not to cause hypotension and affect blood supply to the brain.
In addition, severe anemia can also lead to insufficient blood supply to the brain, causing dizziness, headache and memory loss.
1, actively control high-risk factors.
For people with symptoms of cerebral blood supply deficiency, it is the key to find the cause and actively control it.
The treatment of chronic cerebral ischemia can be divided into drug treatment and non-drug treatment. Standardize medication under the guidance of doctors to achieve the purpose of dilating blood vessels, controlling blood pressure and improving cerebral blood circulation.
Those with "three highs" should control their blood pressure, blood sugar and blood lipid within the normal range as far as possible to prevent further cerebrovascular diseases and aggravate cerebral blood supply deficiency; Patients with heart failure, atrial fibrillation and cervical spondylosis should also actively cooperate with doctors for treatment.
For normal people, with the aging of blood vessels, it is inevitable that there will be insufficient blood supply to the brain, so active prevention is the key.
2. Actively adjust from the lifestyle.
Reasonable diet+proper exercise = healthy body.
* Diet
In terms of diet, people with insufficient cerebrovascular blood supply should try to have a light diet. If the eating habits can't be changed immediately, then at least dinner should be light, not too full and not too late.
Eat less foods high in sugar or high in oil and sugar. Eat more vegetables and fruits rich in dietary fiber, and replace refined rice flour with coarse grains.
Patients with hypertension should limit their salt intake, and the salt intake should be controlled at less than 6 grams per day, that is, 1 beer bottle cap.
Limit foods with high fat content, especially saturated fat and trans fat, and eat less animal fat that is solid at room temperature, such as lard, butter and fat sheep. The high content of saturated fatty acids in these foods will increase the viscosity of blood and induce atherosclerosis.
Eat more foods rich in unsaturated fatty acids, such as olive oil, fish, nuts, mushrooms, milk and so on. It can reduce the contents of cholesterol and triglyceride in blood, reduce blood viscosity and improve blood microcirculation, which is of great benefit to prevent hyperlipidemia and protect cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Keep up with reasonable exercise.
Exercise is a very good way to promote blood circulation and improve metabolism, which can help blood flow smoothly and improve blood supply to the brain.
Take appropriate outdoor activities every day, such as brisk walking, jogging, walking, etc. 30 to 40 minutes each time, at least 65,438+050 minutes per week, or playing Tai Ji Chuan, swimming, cycling, etc. Moderate exercise intensity is appropriate, that is, your heart beats faster and you speak more easily, but you should do what you can and step by step.
In addition, patients with cerebral blood supply deficiency caused by cervical spondylosis cannot be completely insulated from exercise. Reasonable exercise, including the introduction of traditional Chinese medicine (Wuqinxi and Baduanjin), can improve cervical spondylosis, and exercise is mild and safe, which can kill two birds with one stone.
In addition to the above, we must manage our emotions. Emotional fluctuations will make sympathetic nerves overexcited, promote vasoconstriction, increase blood sugar and blood pressure, and then damage blood vessels.
The brain, like its blood supply pipeline and other organs, has strong potential and compensatory ability. We should cherish it in our daily life, try to achieve a balanced diet, sit less and exercise more, quit smoking and limit alcohol, feel comfortable and stay up late.
In addition, if dizziness, headache, insomnia, memory loss and other symptoms often appear recently, you must see a doctor in time. Never ignore or delay, so as not to cause irreparable disease damage.
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