How many stages are there in the staging of cerebral infarction? What are the symptoms?

Cerebral infarction is a common cerebrovascular disease in life. This disease is more common in middle-aged and elderly people and causes great harm to patients. So how many stages are there in the stages of cerebral infarction?

1. Ultra-early stage: within 6 hours of onset of cerebral infarction. The onset time is short and cerebral infarction has not yet formed, which is the ideal time to treat ischemic stroke. If treatments such as thrombolysis are used, the patient may recover completely.

2. Early stage: within 6-72 hours of onset of cerebral infarction. The central part of the brain tissue is necrotic due to ischemia. The goal of treatment is to prevent the expansion of the "central infarction area". Infusion plus oral medication improves the supply to the surrounding areas of the central infarction and restores it to normal.

3. Late acute stage: within 72 hours to 1 week of onset of cerebral infarction. The goal of treatment is to improve edema of brain tissue. Infusion plus oral medication can continue to improve the function of tissues around the infarct area, and it is the best time to start secondary prevention. During this period, the condition is unstable and often changes rapidly. The focus of this stage is to save lives and control the disease.

4. Recovery period: one week to six months after the onset of cerebral infarction. Many patients also have language barriers, physical disabilities, etc. Disability should be minimized, risk factors for cerebral infarction should be prevented and treated, and oral medication should be adhered to in order to restore function and avoid recurrence of cerebral infarction. After the onset of the disease, the condition tends to stabilize during this stage, and the condition will improve and may be significantly improved. Mild and some moderate patients can recover to a better level, and symptoms and signs of some moderate and severe patients will continue.

5. Sequelae period: the period 6 months after onset and treatment. The condition is stable at this stage, but improvement is slow and some physiological functions will be lost. The condition can be further improved by taking long-acting Chinese medicines such as blood circulation and blood stasis removal, aromatic orifice-opening, lipid-lowering and anticoagulant, and after recovery through exercise. During this period, patients should pay more attention to adhering to drug treatment and controlling risk factors to prevent recurrence of cerebral infarction.