Wernicke's encephalopathy precautions

With the progress of society, people pay more and more attention to health. They go to the hospital from time to time to check whether their body functions are healthy. They believe that only with a healthy body can they enjoy and experience life better. Therefore, doctors and people discovered Wernicke's encephalopathy, a common metabolic brain disease in men with chronic alcoholism.

When it comes to Wernicke's encephalopathy, most people may not know much about it. Of course, there are also popular terms for it, which people often call muscle numbness, mental abnormalities, blurred vision, etc. Of course, this disease is curable. The most common treatment is medication, and if it is cured well, the patient can fully recover.

In the usual preventive and prognostic care, we should pay attention to:

Prevention: 1. Publicize the harm of alcohol to the human body, improve the cultural quality of the entire nation, strictly enforce the law on minors, strictly prohibit minors from drinking, and strengthen legal supervision.

2. Pay attention to and strengthen the mental health publicity of alcohol, promote civilized drinking, do not urge others to drink, do not drink excessively, do not drink on an empty stomach, treat physical or mental illnesses, and avoid using alcohol instead of medicine.

3. Promote the use of beverages instead of alcohol to reduce alcohol dependence caused by occupational reasons. Promote the production of low-alcohol liquor, control and prohibit the production of strong liquor, and crack down on the illegal production of counterfeit liquor.

4. Pay attention to health care in diet, eat more high-fiber foods such as vegetables and fruits, and eat more high-protein foods such as soybeans and milk.

Prognosis: 1. If not treated promptly, the natural course of WE may continue to progress, and coma, shock, and cardiovascular failure in patients often indicate a poor prognosis. There are reports of 17 patients with WE diagnosed at autopsy, 12

1 died from esophageal varicose bleeding, acute pancreatitis, and heart failure. 2. About 80% of surviving WE patients develop Korsakoff syndrome due to improper or untimely treatment.

About 20% of the patients recover, 25% suffer permanent damage, and the rest do not fully recover but do improve.

In daily life, we should also pay attention to our diet. People who like to drink often only drink without eating, and sometimes even do not eat for a long time. This will lead to frequent attacks of Wernicke's encephalopathy. If we pay attention to the prevention and post-treatment care of Wernicke's encephalopathy, we can reduce the mortality rate of this disease and it will be of great help to people's lives.