Does cerebral infarction cause headache

The diseases of patients with cerebral infarction are generally more serious, and mild cerebral infarction must be treated in time at the beginning to be cured. When cerebral infarction occurs frequently, the patient's life is always threatened. Moreover, cerebral infarction is closely related to arteriosclerosis, which can cause many heart diseases. At this time, treatment should be given quickly. So what should I do if I have a headache due to cerebral infarction?

1 Mild cerebral infarction is much milder than general cerebral infarction, which means the treatment of mild cerebral infarction is much faster than general cerebral infarction. Therefore, patients with mild cerebral infarction will generally recover relatively quickly. Of course, this is what everyone is happy to see. So, let me first introduce the symptoms of mild cerebral infarction.

Cerebral infarction is a cerebrovascular disease caused by cerebral atherosclerosis and vascular endothelial damage, which leads to narrowing of the cerebral artery lumen, and then local thrombosis due to various factors, which aggravates the arterial stenosis or completely blocks it, resulting in ischemia, hypoxia, necrosis of brain tissue, and neurological dysfunction.

Symptoms of a mild stroke are as follows:

(1) It is more common in middle-aged and elderly patients with diseases such as atherosclerosis, hypertension, and diabetes. There are often signs of disease that may have been the source of the embolus, such as heart disease, especially atrial fibrillation, or valvular heart disease.

(2) There is often a transient ischemic attack before, such as dizziness, vertigo, weakness on one side of the limbs, etc., which has a slow onset and often occurs during sleep or quiet time. However, those caused by emboli usually have no prodromal symptoms, develop suddenly, and develop to the peak within a few minutes.

(3) There are less severe whole-brain symptoms such as impaired consciousness and intracranial hypertension. The main symptoms are focal brain dysfunction, which varies according to the affected blood and bone sites: for example, monocular blindness on the same side and hemiplegia on the other side in the case of internal carotid artery occlusion; complete hemiplegia, sensory impairment, and ipsilateral hemianopsia on the other side in the case of middle cerebral artery occlusion; and dizziness, nausea and vomiting, hoarseness, dysphagia, ataxia, decreased superficial sensation of the face on the same side, decreased superficial sensation of the contralateral limbs, or mild hemiplegia in the case of occlusion of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery.

(4) In addition to brain signs, embolic signs may also be seen in the skin, mucous membranes, retina, spleen, kidneys, heart, etc.

Patients with cerebral infarction often develop the disease when they are resting quietly. Some patients wake up and find that their mouth and eyes are crooked, they are hemiplegic, they are drooling, they drop rice grains when they eat, and they cannot lift their chopsticks. This is a cerebral infarction, which often catches people off guard. Only some patients have symptoms of transient cerebral ischemia before the onset of the disease, such as limb numbness, slurred speech, transient blacking out, dizziness or vertigo, nausea, and blood pressure fluctuations (which may be high or low). These precursor symptoms are generally mild, short-lived, and often ignored.

2Diet therapy for cerebral infarction

1. Avoid high-fat, high-calorie foods: If you continue to eat a high-fat, high-calorie diet for a long time, it can further increase blood lipids, increase blood viscosity, and easily form arteriosclerotic plaques, eventually leading to recurrence of thrombosis. Avoid eating fatty meat, animal offal, fish eggs, etc., and eat less peanuts and other foods that are high in oil and cholesterol; avoid or use less whole milk, cream, egg yolks, fatty pork, fatty lamb, fatty beef, liver, offal, butter, lard, tallow, mutton, and coconut oil; do not use frying, stir-frying, or grilling for cooking.

2. Avoid fatty, sweet, greasy, overly salty, stimulating foods that increase fire and produce phlegm: consume less sweet drinks and cream cakes; avoid eating too much sauce, pickles, etc.

3. Avoid raw, cold, spicy and irritating foods: such as white wine, pepper, spicy hot pot, etc., as well as hot foods such as strong tea, mung beans, lamb, dog meat, etc.

4. Avoid smoking and drinking: Tobacco can damage the endothelium of blood vessels, cause contraction of small blood vessels, and narrow the lumen, making it easy for blood clots to form; drinking large amounts of strong alcohol is harmful to blood vessels. According to surveys, alcoholism is one of the causes of cerebral infarction.