What is cerebral infarction? How to prevent and treat mild cerebral infarction?

Cerebral infarction is a relatively common cerebrovascular disease, which is more common in middle-aged and elderly people. So what is cerebral infarction? What is a mild stroke?

What is cerebral infarction?

Cerebral infarction is a cerebrovascular disease caused by cerebral atherosclerosis and vascular endothelial damage, which leads to narrowing of the cerebral artery lumen, and then local thrombosis due to various factors, which aggravates the arterial stenosis or completely blocks it, resulting in ischemia, hypoxia, necrosis of brain tissue, and neurological dysfunction. Cerebral infarction with few primary diseases, single site of infarction, small thrombus area, and no obvious clinical symptoms as shown by CT or MRI examination is mild cerebral infarction, and lacunar cerebral infarction is mostly mild cerebral infarction. The key points of prevention and treatment of mild cerebral infarction are: first, to improve the symptoms of cerebral infarction such as numbness of limbs, dizziness and headache; second, to prevent the recurrence of cerebral infarction or even the progression to severe multiple cerebral infarction.

What is a mild stroke?

Mild cerebral infarction is a special type of cerebral infarction. It is caused by occlusion of tiny arteries deep in the brain on the basis of hypertension and arterial infarction, leading to ischemic softening of brain tissue. The lesion size is generally 2-20 mm, with 2-4 mm being the most common. Clinically, most patients have no obvious symptoms. About 3/4 of the patients have no symptoms of focal nerve damage, or only have mild symptoms such as inattention, memory loss, mild headache, dizziness, vertigo, and slow reaction. The diagnosis of this disease is mainly based on CT or MRI examination. If mild cerebral infarction becomes multiple, it can affect brain function, lead to progressive intellectual decline, and finally cause cerebrovascular dementia.

Prevention and treatment of mild cerebral infarction

Early detection of mild cerebral infarction is a blessing in disguise for patients, because if discovered in time, it is still in time to intervene with drugs. As long as you persist in taking the medication, you can completely prevent mild cerebral infarction from developing into severe cerebral infarction. First of all, we must prevent the progression and recurrence of cerebral infarction and improve the symptoms of cerebral infarction. This is called scientific secondary prevention in medicine. Among Western medicines, aspirin is relatively commonly used, but its disadvantage is that its effectiveness rate is 53%, 47% of people will develop drug resistance, and long-term use can easily cause gastric bleeding and bring liver and kidney damage. Modern Chinese medicine has a better comprehensive preventive and therapeutic effect, is safe to take, has multiple targets, and is long-lasting, but its disadvantage is that the dosage is large and the quality is unstable. If Chinese medicine can improve its defects of large dosage and unstable ingredients, it will become the best medication option for patients with chronic diseases such as cerebral infarction.