What are the dietary taboos for cerebral thrombosis?

In fact, the core dietary taboos for patients with cerebral thrombosis are very clear, which is to try to avoid foods that can aggravate blood lipid disorders, violent fluctuations in blood pressure, and accelerate the progression of atherosclerosis. Many of the "absolutely inedible" foods spread online are mostly misinformation, and there is no need to be overly taboo and lead to malnutrition.

A while ago, I went to see a doctor I knew well in Shennai to get information, and happened to meet an old patient, Uncle Zhang, who came for a review. He had lacunar cerebral infarction last year, and he recovered enough to go downstairs for a walk. His grandson came back a while ago and brought two boxes of braised pork sausage. He ate less than half a bowl of braised pork sausage every day for three days in a row, and drank two meals of white wine. He was sent to the emergency room in a state of dizziness. Fortunately, no vital parts were blocked. The doctor pointed at his medical record and said that this was clearly a dietary red line.

Many people always think that if they have cerebral thrombosis, they cannot eat or touch this or that, and they even have to pick out the egg yolks. It is really unnecessary. The current guidelines related to cerebrovascular disease clearly mention that as long as blood lipids, especially low-density lipoprotein, are controlled within the target range, it is absolutely fine to eat a whole egg a day. On the contrary, those trans fatty acids hidden in pastries, cream cakes, and puffed foods are several times more damaging to blood vessels than egg yolks, so it is really necessary to touch them as little as possible.

Needless to say, the problem of high salt content is that many elders have been heavy-mouthed all their lives and use a lot of salt in cooking. They also like to prepare pickled radishes, pickled vegetables, salted fish and bacon for meals. If they eat every meal, their sodium intake will definitely exceed the standard, which will keep the blood pressure in a high and fluctuating state. The originally stable plaques on the blood vessel walls can easily fall off and block the blood vessels in the brain, causing recurrence. I also met a 70-year-old man. He heard others say that it is good to be a vegetarian. He stopped eating meat for half a year. As a result, his albumin was low every time he was checked again and he had no strength to walk, which was not conducive to the recovery of neurological function.

The question of "can you eat red meat" that is currently very hotly debated on the Internet actually makes sense on both sides. The clinical consensus is that you don't need to give up completely. You only need to choose lean parts such as pork tenderloin and beef tendons with low fat content. Control it to 50g or less every day, which is completely okay to eat. On the contrary, if you go completely vegetarian and the combination is not good, it is easy to be deficient in B vitamins and high-quality protein, which is not good for recovery.

There are still many people who think that they can eat "sugar-free foods" casually. In fact, many sugar-free biscuits and sugar-free breads are added with a lot of shortening to improve the taste. Blood lipids will still rise quickly after eating. There are also so-called "health wine" and "fruit wine", no matter how low the degree, will stimulate blood vessels and cause blood pressure fluctuations. They have no effect on softening blood vessels at all. If you can, try to quit. To put it bluntly, the dietary taboos are not to make a blacklist for you and not eat anything, but to have a strong balance in your mind. Avoid eating high-fat, high-salt, high-sugar, and trans-fatty acid-containing foods. Don’t be lucky that “it’s fine if you eat it once in a while.” Many patients who relapse are greedy for that one bite, and problems arise after they save it.