Prevention of stroke

Depending on the causes of the disease, several types of strokes are distinguished.

  1. Ischemic stroke, or cerebral infarction, occurs as a result of impaired blood flow to individual parts of the brain due to vasospasm, thrombosis, or for other reasons. This is the most common type of stroke (up to 80% of cases). There is also an ischemic spinal stroke, when not the head but the spinal cord suffers.
  2. Hemorrhagic stroke, or intracerebral hematoma, is an intracerebral haemorrhage, when the walls of the vessels fail to press and tear (up to 10% of cases).
  3. Subarachnoid hemorrhage is a hemorrhage due to rupture of the vessels of the brain envelope (about 5% of the affected).
  4. The remaining 5% fall on the share of various rare cases and strokes with unidentified causes.

However, hemorrhages do not occur on an equal place, and most often they are provoked by a whole complex of causes and other diseases, taking measures to prevent which can be avoided and stroke.

Primary prevention

Most often, stroke becomes a complication in hypertension and atherosclerosis of blood vessels.

When atherosclerosis on the walls of the arteries and vessels are deposited plaques, formed cholesterol, which greatly worsens the blood flow. The deposits appear due to malnutrition, an overabundance in the diet of fats and a lack of proteins, and a low-activity lifestyle. With reduced physical activity, the body does not burn fats, so the most simple prevention of ischemic stroke can be healthy eating and playing sports.

To prevent hemorrhagic stroke, factors that can cause a sharp rise in blood pressure should be avoided. In addition, you need to pay attention to the treatment of hypertension, as well as kidney and heart diseases, which most often cause it.

Secondary prevention

It is used in cases when the patient has suffered a stroke in order to avoid recurrence and maintain the body. It is very important not to neglect it, since the percentage of deaths during stroke is approximately 25% during the first month, and about 40% during the year.

A second stroke occurs in the first month in 5% of patients, and in the next 5 years - every fourth.

In addition to a cholesterol-free diet, smoking and alcohol refusal, reduction of the amount of salt in food, medication is also mandatory. The main course consists of drugs that reduce blood pressure, blood thinning and anti-aggregate (preventing the formation of blood clots). Surgical methods of prevention are also used, which consist in removing part of the artery wall together with sclerotic plaques, or angioplasty of the vessels.

Prevention of stroke by folk remedies

As already mentioned, one of the most important moments in primary prevention of stroke is nutrition, and there are a number of products that prevent the appearance of sclerotic plaques and even destroy them.

First of all, these are some vegetables - rutabaga, turnip, radish, horseradish, watercress. Any cabbage is especially useful. In addition, it is necessary to eat foods rich in beta-carotene and vitamin C - carrots, tomatoes, citrus fruits. Their regular use reduces the risk of stroke by almost a third. Also it is necessary to replace in a feed (meal) sunflower oil on olive, containing set of useful saturated fats.

Of herbs, broths of hawthorn berries, dogrose and black chokeberry are especially effective as preventive measures.

A mixture of arnica inflorescences, mint leaves, sweet clover and wormwood, hips and lily-of-the-valley flowers in equal proportions is also used. One tablespoon of the collection is poured with two glasses of boiling water and 6 hours is infused in a thermos. Drink the broth for a glass 4 times a day.