How to recognize brain circulation disabilities

Headache is a common and earliest symptom. The patient feels heavy in his head, often rubbing his forehead with his hand, stroking or scratching his head, squeezing his forehead, and lightly punching his forehead.

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Brain circulation is a disease that can occur in all ages but is most common in the elderly, especially intellectual workers. The main cause is atherosclerosis of the brain arteries. Early signs that patients often notice initially are vague feelings that they have changed from physical to mental, people who look older, sluggish, less active, and gradually change their personality, Previous interesting things, now it is bland, or brooding over life, likes quiet places.

When the disease gets worse, there will be the following symptoms:

Headache: A common symptom (90%) is also the earliest symptom. Headaches spread all over my head, feeling heavy in my head, especially when I have to think a lot. Patients often have the habit of rubbing their forehead, stroking or scratching their heads, someone squeezes their forehead, and punches their forehead lightly.

Dizziness (with 87% of cases) or feeling slightly staggered when walking or standing, bobbing like seasickness. Some people feel dizzy and darkened most when turning their posture to a sudden standing posture. Typically, the dizziness, seeing things like wobble around me. This phenomenon occurs every time you change your posture, causing the patient to lie down with his or her eyes closed, and all movements are dizziness, nausea. Dizziness of this type may be only a few minutes short, sometimes up to several days.

Paresthesia: These are unreal and abnormal feelings that patients feel themselves. For example, the feeling of numbness, packaging on the tip of the finger, the feeling of cow ants. There are patients who appear pain along the ribs, pain in the neck along the two lines at the nape of the neck, cold feeling along the spine. It feels like there are sounds of cicadas, rice millers in the ears, this voice exists both day and night, sometimes affecting every activity, sleep and health of patients.

Sleep disorder: Very common and characterized by persistent, unpleasant, difficult to treat. Expression is very diverse; Some people manifest themselves as insomnia, others are sleep disturbances, at night, sleepless at night, sleepless at night, sleep in the morning. The night could not sleep, the day fell asleep again.

Attention disorder: It is difficult for the patient to transmit attention from one object to another. Gradually, they were depressed both physically and mentally. Previous and rapid external stimuli were quickly and difficult to acquire, requiring a great concentration of attention. The patient became distracted, thinking this was going to jump to the other; talking about this issue jumps to another problem unexpectedly. The ability to concentrate thoughts is very poor.

Emotional disorder: In people who always feel restless, do not fully control themselves with very petty reasons, nowhere is the patient reacting strongly. The patient himself also felt that the reaction was not correct but he could not control it, gradually became a person with a fruit, a fruit. In addition, it is often heartbreaking, easy to be self-deprecating, whining, and brooding one after another.

Personality changes: In those people who were previously shallow, this temperament has become more aggressive and lively. The former gentle and peaceful people now become multi-sentimental, self-deprecating . In the past, they were cautiously careful, now become chubby, skeptical, before, the power and economy have become miserable, Stingy, limp.

The above are some manifestations that patients and relatives can identify. However, the best way to prevent brain circulatory deficiencies is to have a periodic health check for timely prevention and treatment, avoiding brain complications.

DoctorNguyen Khac Hien