Prevention Stroke in Elderly

Stroke in the elderly is prevalent disease (50-60%) in the number of neurological diseases in the elderly. Elderly people need regular health check firstly blood pressure, heart disease, hardening of the artery ...

Elderly people should be more careful when they appear the following signs:

- Headache: When frequent headaches at the top, at the temples, feeling stiff neck (neck strain, neck pain ...), accompanied by dizziness ...

- Dizziness: Dizziness dizzy, no clear direction of rotation. In many cases, patients have to close your eyes, sometimes with nausea.

- "Fly flying" is the feeling common in old age. Before the eyes appear small objects like black flies hovering back and forth ... It is a sign of high blood pressure in the eye, need to be examined, ophthalmoscopy soon.

- Rapid weight gain, obesity quickly, especially in people who drink too much beer, wine, belly fat to see.

- There is also the phenomenon of increased cholesterol, hardening of the artery and increasing blood pressure ...

In people who have been Stroke 1-2 times the regular need specialist neurological examination for timely treatment, relapse prevention capabilities ... Note phenomena half numbness, seizures or psychological disorders (emotional, angry, phenomena lisp, pronunciation disorders ...). Compliance monitoring outpatient treatment.

Process prevention

- Elderly people should have regular blood pressure, ophthalmoscopy, glucose monitors, blood fat ... Note cardiovascular status - blood pressure - urology.

- Patients often limbs massage, qigong relax, take part in sports activities, retreats, regulating intellectual work and manual labor combined proper rest.

- Maintain a diet moderate, reasonable, do not eat animal fats (vegetable oil instead), do not eat too salty ...