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What if there is plaque on the neck?
Overview of carotid plaque

How to treat carotid plaque? It is the carotid artery, which is the main blood vessel from the heart to the brain and other parts of the head, and has the symptoms of stenosis. Carotid artery stenosis is mostly caused by carotid atherosclerotic plaque in carotid canal cavity. It should be pointed out that the incidence of carotid stenosis is high, and about 9% of people over 60 years old suffer from carotid stenosis. Carotid artery stenosis is extremely harmful and should not be underestimated!

Early symptoms Carotid artery is a thick blood vessel. Its internal carotid artery directly supplies blood and oxygen to brain tissue, while its external carotid artery supplies blood and oxygen to five senses such as eyes, ears, nose and mouth. If the carotid artery is hardened, there are plaques on the blood vessel wall, which makes the blood flow poor. If it is not unobstructed, it will often lead to ischemia and hypoxia of brain tissue. Patients often feel dizzy, dizzy, poor memory and obvious decline in thinking ability. Over time, it will cause brain atrophy.

If the hardened carotid artery has a thick plaque falling off, blocking the arterial blood vessels with blood flow, it will cause cerebral infarction, blindness, slurred speech, paralysis and other stroke manifestations, and even threaten life.

Generally speaking, mild arteriosclerosis will not affect the blood supply to the brain, so there will be no symptoms after neck activity. Severe arteriosclerosis will reduce the blood supply to the brain, causing dizziness, headache and memory loss. If you move your neck at this time, it is likely to aggravate cerebral ischemia, make the symptoms of cerebral ischemia more serious, and even lead to "ischemic stroke." The main causes of cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis, myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, heart failure and premature beats.

Most of these diseases occur in the "three highs", that is, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia, and the incidence rate of the elderly is greater than that of the young.

Experts guide diagnosis and early treatment to prevent complications in disease development in time.

Harm of carotid artery stenosis

In patients with carotid artery stenosis, because of arteriosclerosis, the arterial wall is not smooth, the vascular cavity is curved and narrowed, and the blood flow is blocked. Long-term chronic ischemia causes brain damage, dizziness, decreased vision, and decreased intelligence and social function. At the same time, due to the vortex of blood, micro-thrombus will be formed, and thrombus and unstable plaque will enter the skull with the blood flow, resulting in cerebral vascular occlusion, cerebral thrombosis and cerebral infarction, resulting in permanent hemiplegia, hemianopia and language dysfunction, which may even endanger the life of patients.

Carotid atherosclerotic plaque is a systemic disease. Different degrees of systemic arteriosclerosis have different health hazards. As far as harm is concerned, there are three most dangerous arteriosclerosis areas in the whole body: cardiac artery, cerebral artery and carotid artery. Cardiac arteriosclerosis can lead to myocardial infarction, cerebral arteriosclerosis can lead to cerebral hemorrhage, and carotid arteriosclerosis can lead to carotid stenosis, which in turn leads to transient cerebral ischemia and cerebral infarction.

Medical research shows that carotid atherosclerosis is no less harmful than cardio-cerebral arteriosclerosis. The carotid artery is thick, and the blood directly supplies important organs such as brain tissue and five senses. When the carotid artery is hardened, the brain tissue is ischemic and hypoxic, and there will be symptoms such as dizziness, dizziness and decreased thinking ability. If the carotid atherosclerotic plaque falls off, it will block the arterial blood vessels, causing blindness, hemiplegia and even life-threatening.

Etiological factors

Cardiovascular experts point out that smoking and herpes virus infection are the main causes of atherosclerosis, among which smoking has the greatest impact on carotid atherosclerosis, surpassing age, diabetes, hypertension and other factors. Therefore, quitting smoking is the primary measure to prevent carotid atherosclerosis.

Carotid plaque treatment

Carotid atherosclerotic plaque is the most common and important type of atherosclerosis. This disease mainly involves large and medium-sized muscle elastic arteries, especially aorta, coronary artery and cerebral artery, which often leads to serious consequences such as lumen occlusion or wall rupture and bleeding.

Carotid atherosclerosis is more common in men over 40 years old and postmenopausal women. The disease is often accompanied by hypertension, hypercholesterolemia or diabetes. Other experts from Zhongyuan Wuxing Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine will give you guidance:

First, general treatment:

(1) Reasonable diet: The total calories in the diet should not be too high to prevent overweight.

(2) Insist on moderate physical activity.

(3) Reasonable arrangement of work and life.

(4) Others: advocate non-smoking and drink a little.

Second, control the susceptible factors: If you have diabetes, you should control your blood sugar in time, including diet control. Hypoglycemic drugs for type 2 diabetes should not cause hyperinsulinemia, such as damekang; If there is hypertension, antihypertensive drugs should be given to reduce blood pressure to an appropriate level. If there is an increase in blood cholesterol, high cholesterol should be controlled and lipid-lowering drugs should be given appropriately.

3. Hypolipidemic drugs.

Fourth, antiplatelet drugs.

5. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of plaque-eating and tube-dredging ASP: the prescription of "removing blood stasis and screening blood" can clear blood and remove fat, thus rapidly reducing blood fat, filtering out precipitated lipids, cleaning up aggregated platelets, and ablating microthrombosis. Restore the original solute ratio and viscoelasticity of blood, and eliminate the causes of blood lipid formation in atherosclerotic plaques: "disorder of blood lipid precipitation and slow blood flow; Eliminate the internal causes of atherosclerotic plaque formation, such as "disorder of blood lipid, slow blood flow, disorder of vascular endothelial injury and rough intimal inflammation", thus effectively preventing the regeneration and recurrence of atherosclerotic plaque.

Observation on the curative effect of plaque dredging tube -ASP

1, improve the safety factor of atherosclerotic plaque, reduce the risk of fatal shedding of atherosclerotic plaque, and gradually eliminate atherosclerotic plaque in situ.

2. Clearing blood and transforming fat, rapidly reducing blood lipid, filtering precipitated lipid, cleaning aggregated platelets, and ablating microthrombosis. And restore the original solute ratio and viscoelasticity of blood.

3. Restore the muscle softness and intimal smoothness of the inner wall of blood vessels, repair the injury of the inner wall of blood vessels and the inflammation caused by the injury, and improve the microcirculation, so as to maintain and rebuild the patency of blood vessels.

4. Eliminate various discomforts and symptoms caused by atherosclerotic plaque, such as dizziness caused by carotid atherosclerotic plaque, palpitation and chest tightness caused by coronary atherosclerotic plaque, headache, dizziness and numbness of limbs caused by cerebral atherosclerotic plaque.

5. Eliminate the internal causes of atherosclerotic plaque formation, such as "disorder of blood lipid deposition, slow blood flow, disorder of vascular endothelial injury, rough intima inflammation", thus effectively preventing the regeneration and recurrence of atherosclerotic plaque.

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