Cerebral arteriosclerosis

Factors such as obesity, diabetes, and a greasy diet may cause certain substances in the human body's blood vessels to gradually precipitate, leading to arteriosclerosis, especially cerebral arteriosclerosis. Cerebral arteriosclerosis is the most serious type of arteriosclerosis. Not only does its own symptoms cause some harm to the human body, but it can also easily lead to the occurrence of

However, many patients with cerebral arteriosclerosis do not have any obvious symptoms in the affected area. Generally, they only show some minor symptoms. However, if you want to prevent the harm caused by cerebral arteriosclerosis, you must start treatment from the early stage. This requires you to understand the symptoms of cerebral arteriosclerosis in detail.

1. Dizziness: Dizziness is the most common symptom of hypertension. Some are transient, often occurring when squatting or standing up suddenly, and some are persistent. Dizziness is the main pain of patients. They have a persistent dull and uncomfortable feeling in the head, which seriously hinders thinking, affects work, and causes loss of interest in surrounding things. When hypertensive crisis or vertebral-basilar artery insufficiency occurs, symptoms similar to inner ear vertigo may appear.

2. Headache: Headache is also a common symptom of hypertension, which is mostly persistent dull pain or throbbing pain, or even explosive pain. It often occurs in the morning when waking up, and gradually subsides after getting up and moving around and after meals. The pain is mostly in the temples on both sides of the forehead and the back of the head.

3. Irritability, palpitations, and insomnia: Patients with hypertension tend to be impatient, sensitive, and easily excited. Palpitations and insomnia are more common. Insomnia is often characterized by difficulty falling asleep or waking up early, unrecoverable sleep, nightmares, and easy awakening. This is related to cerebral cortex dysfunction and autonomic nervous system dysfunction.

4. Inattention and memory loss: It is not obvious in the early stage, but gradually worsens as the disease progresses. Because it is quite distressing, it is often one of the reasons that prompts patients to seek medical treatment. It is manifested by easy distraction and loss of recent memory. It is often difficult to remember recent events, but things in the past, such as childhood, are still fresh in the memory.

5. Limb numbness: common symptoms include numbness in fingers and toes, a tingling sensation on the skin, or tension and soreness in the neck and back muscles. Some patients often feel stiffness in their fingers. Generally, the condition will improve after proper treatment. However, if the limb numbness is stubborn, lasts a long time, and is fixed to a certain limb, and is accompanied by limb weakness, cramps, and throbbing pain, you should go to the hospital in time to prevent a stroke.

6. Bleeding: less common. Since hypertension can cause arteriosclerosis, which reduces the elasticity of blood vessels and increases their fragility, they are prone to rupture and bleeding. Among them, nosebleed is the most common, followed by conjunctival hemorrhage, fundus hemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage, etc. According to statistics, among patients with severe nosebleeds, about 80% suffer from hypertension.

The above are all relatively common cerebral arteriosclerosis. For middle-aged and elderly friends, when you have the above symptoms, you need to consider whether you have cerebral arteriosclerosis. If it is confirmed, in order to avoid more serious harm caused by cerebral arteriosclerosis, you need to maintain a low-cholesterol diet principle.