What are the symptoms of carotid plaque? What to do?

When plaque appears in the carotid artery, what prompts does the body give? The doctor will tell you the answer.

Under normal circumstances, dizziness, headache, and sudden blurring of vision occur, and the neck is often sore, which is obvious when the neck is gently turned. In addition to strengthening the control of life conditioning, it is also necessary to actively control the related chronic diseases that affect arteriosclerotic plaques, and blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar are the three most important indicators.

Carotid plaque is the most common cause of carotid artery stenosis or even occlusion in middle-aged and elderly patients. The presence of plaque is mainly related to atherosclerosis. Therefore, you need to choose to take a statin to lower lipids and stabilize plaques, you can choose atorvastatin, rosuvastatin, simvastatin or pitavastatin and so on.

At the same time, the diet needs to be low in salt, fat and cholesterol.

Carotid plaque is due to the accumulation of too many lipids in the blood, which cannot be absorbed by the body for normal metabolism, and is deposited on the carotid intima, forming carotid plaque. Most carotid plaques are asymptomatic and are often found during physical examination, while a small number of unstable plaques will cause corresponding intracranial ischemic symptoms, such as dizziness, confusion, syncope, transient amaurosis, etc., which often last for a short period of time, and will be more obvious when attacking, and will generally improve significantly after more than ten seconds or twenty seconds, which is due to the stenosis in the blood vessels caused by plaque, and intracranial transient ischemia. There are also some patients with carotid artery plaque, the symptoms of cerebral infarction, which are due to the rupture of these unstable plaques, the rupture of plaques or intra-plaque hemorrhage, caused by the fall off of small plaques, resulting in cerebral vascular blockage and cerebral infarction.

Therefore, when carotid plaque appears, it must be given under the guidance of a specialist, through oral lipid-lowering and antiplatelet drugs, and if necessary, it can be carried out through surgery.

If there is plaque in the carotid artery, it will cause the carotid artery to become narrower and narrower, which will affect the insufficient blood supply to the brain and reduce the blood supply, resulting in dizziness, memory loss and other consequences.

IfCarotid plaqueFalling off, the plaque will flow along the bloodstream into the human brain, into some small cardiovascular and cerebrovascular locations. It can happen if the plaque can't get throughAcute cerebral infarction。The impact of interrupting a cerebral infarction is as great as it is terribleComplications

Due to the interruption of blood after a blockage of a blood vessel in the brain, the nerves in the brain are unable to obtain oxygen**, causing damage and even atrophy.

Whether it's soft or hard plaque, or mixed plaque, in fact its real name should be reliability plaque or consumable plaque. In general, hard plaques match reliable plaques, while soft plaques match consumable plaques. Base, lipids.

The nuclear and synthetic caps are key components of plaques.

How to prevent carotid plaque?

Positive changes to a bad lifestyle can reasonably prevent carotid plaque, usually eat with fresh fruits, vegetables and fruits, low-fat dairy products, moderate with grains, and eat less high-fat ingredients such as fried and fat, because fried foods have more trans fats.

Eat more vegetables, fresh fruits, grains, and other ingredients that contain dietary fiber.

How do I get rid of carotid plaque?

When there is only plaque in the carotid artery, the plaque will not cause the lumen to narrow, and it can be controlled according to light food, moderate fitness exercise, quitting smoking and drinking, avoiding alcohol, and controlling high blood pressure.

Hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia.

and other lifestyle changes, while taking antiglycemic drugs, statins are more common, and there are data to suggest that statins can reduce some plaques.

For patients with lumen stenosis due to carotid plaque, especially in 70% of stenosis levels and clinical manifestations, carotid artery surgery can be selected for carotid endometrial exfoliation, and the carotid endometrium and plaque can be removed in detail to repair the original lumen. This surgery** is relatively not very large, but the risks of the surgery ** are high. Two types of antiplatelets should be taken postoperatively.

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There will be insufficient blood supply to the brain, dizziness, dizziness, and the body will have no strength to walk unsteadily. You will feel a lack of strength in your body. You can walk more and exercise more.

There will be dizziness, cerebral ischemia in life, and some movement disorders, which must be taken seriously.

They are neck pain, dizziness, headache, and blurred vision, and if you have these three conditions, you need to pay attention.

With the continuous popularization of health awareness and health education knowledge, many friends know about the condition of cervical vascular plaque, so some friends are very worried, is there a spot in my neck blood vessels? Who is prone to plaque problems in the neck? How to prevent carotid plaque, and what should I do if there is cervical vascular plaque?

Today we will take a look at this kind of problem. Who is more likely to develop atherosclerotic plaque? High blood lipids:

The most important component of sclerotic plaque is lipids, especially LDL cholesterol - elevated cholesterol and <>

High-density cholesterol - elevated cholesterol has the effect of alleviating arteriosclerosis. Diabetic patients: In addition to lipids, the components of the spots include a variety of complex glycogen, so hyperglycemia is also prone to aortic atheromas.

High blood pressure: The blood pressure value gradually increases from 115 to 75, and the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases will increase exponentially for every 20 rise in high pressure and 10 increase in low voltage. Smoking:

The cigarette tar in cigarettes can damage blood vessels, increase blood pressure, and accelerate arteriosclerosis. Alcoholism: Long-term heavy drinkers will increase blood pressure and blood will be in a hypercoagulable state at night, which will easily lead to arteriosclerotic spots.

Overweight or obese people: Overweight and obese people often have secondary hypertension, high blood lipids, and high blood sugar at the same time. How to prevent plaque in the blood vessels in the neck:

Maintain blood pressure, blood sugar, and blood sugar levelsQuit smoking and drinking: Smoking in the past and now increases the risk of arteriosclerotic plaqueControl weight: If you are overweight, you should pay great attention to weight control exercise

Exercise regularly, including aerobic exercise**Exercise Healthy diet: less salt and less body fat, eat more fruits, vegetables, fruits and whole wheat bread cereals, etc

Learn to adjust the rhythm of work and life, reduce stress, and have regular physical examinations: early detection of physical and mental health problems related to myocardial infarction such as high blood pressure, high blood lipids, and diabetes How to have vascular plaques in the neck**: After discovering the spots, the measures are different.

If the spot is small, the blood vessels in the neck are not significantly narrow (50% narrow), and there are no symptoms of cerebral ischemia, the spot itself is generally not treated. The key measures are long-term blood pressure control, carbohydrate control, blood sugar control, smoking and alcohol cessation, weight control, etc. This is also the main measure to prevent the growth of spots.

For example, people who often need to hunch over, high blood lipids, high blood pressure, and advanced age are easy to get, so I think you should try to bring pillows and move more

Elderly patients and patients with weak bodies are prone to this disease, so you need to pay attention to your daily diet and eat more light food.

Often overeating, often eating puffed food, often eating takeout, often eating fatty meat, these people are prone to carotid plaque. Be sure to exercise properly, control your diet, and control your calorie intake.