What are the effective methods to prevent stroke?

At the unveiling ceremony of Henan Interventional Treatment Center held recently, Li, director of the interventional department of the hospital, said that he should seek medical treatment immediately if he had a stroke omen.

Painless, short and sudden facial numbness, inability to speak or understand words, blindness in one eye and sudden loss of balance are all early symptoms of stroke, which should be treated as medical emergencies like severe chest pain and sudden severe headache. Patients or their families should call 120 emergency number for examination and treatment. Generally speaking, 3 hours after onset is the prime time for rescue, and the treatment effect is good. ?

According to reports, patients with smoking, alcoholism, obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes should be listed as the prone population of stroke; The elderly, male, yellow race, black race, cold environment and family history have a relatively high incidence of stroke, which should also be regarded as a prone population. Reasonable diet, moderate exercise, psychological balance, smoking cessation and alcohol restriction are effective methods to prevent stroke.

Experts said that for people with some high-risk characteristics of stroke, it may be too late to prevent the occurrence of stroke from the etiology, and effective secondary prevention measures must be implemented. For example, you can know whether your blood pressure is normal, whether you have heart disease, diabetes, abnormal blood lipid and weight, and then you can judge whether you are a high-risk object by combining your family history and smoking. ?

Experts believe that it is necessary to strengthen health education for high-risk objects in order to reduce the level of various risk factors. For patients with abnormal blood pressure, regular treatment must be carried out to reduce blood pressure to a safer normal range. In addition, it is necessary to strengthen mental health counseling for high-risk objects, help them control their emotional excitement and tension, encourage them to participate in useful and capable community activities, and arrange their work and life reasonably.