Cholesterol plaques in blood vessels are very dangerous for humans. They are the cause of heart attack, stroke, gangrene of the extremities. And this is explained by the fact that they make the walls of blood vessels thin and brittle. Also, as they grow, the passage narrows, which is a serious obstacle to normal blood circulation. As a result, the cells receive less nutrients and oxygen, without which they cannot develop properly. The excretion of metabolic products slows down, which leads to pathological changes in the tissues of each organ.
How do plaques appear in blood vessels?
Cholesterol is a substance that is essential for all cell membranes. It takes part in the creation of steroid hormones, helps to strengthen the nervous system, has a positive effect on the functioning of digestion and immunity.
About 80% of the cholesterol needed by the body is produced by the liver. After that, it combines with lipoproteins, which help it spread throughout all the cells of the body. After the tissues absorb the amount of this substance they need, the residuesback to the liver for processing.
Cholesterol and fats, due to poor solubility, precipitate during transportation, and a cholesterol plaque is formed in the vessel of the neck, heart and other parts of the body. In order to prevent the fixation of cholesterol, enzymes are included in the process, which are faced with the task of clearing the vessels of all residues.
But in the case when they are simply unable to cope with their task, cholesterol is securely fixed on the walls, and a cholesterol plaque is formed, which gradually grows and disrupts blood circulation. As a result, tissues begin to starve, and increased thrombus formation only intensifies.
Initially, the growth has a liquid consistency, so it is still possible to clear the vessels during this period if you revise the diet, eradicate bad habits, and also take the drugs recommended by the doctor.
Danger
But you need to remember that the plaque is very dangerous: because of its unstable structure, it can come off at any moment and become an obstacle to the flow of blood. This can provoke necrosis of the tissues that serve the artery.
After some time, cholesterol plaques in the vessels harden, replacing the connective tissue, after which the measures to clean the walls do not give the desired result. Vessels gradually lose their elasticity, become brittle, and the likelihood of their rupture increases. With a rupture of the vessels of the brain, neck or heart, a person is threatened with death. The same thing can happen ifif the growth completely closes the lumen, and blood cannot pass through the vessel.
The peculiarity of plaques is that they affect all vessels, which is why if a patient has been diagnosed with atherosclerosis in the veins and arteries, it means that plaques already exist throughout the body. Treatment aims to clear the veins and arteries as best as possible.
What causes plaques?
There are many reasons that provoke the appearance of cholesterol plaques in the vessels:
eating fatty and heavy foods;
- inactive way of life;
- drinking and smoking;
- frequent stressful situations;
- old age;
- virus that disrupts the structure of blood vessels;
- high levels of gonadotropic or adenocorticotropic hormones;
- failures in lipid metabolism;
- low density lipoproteins.
Risk groups
In addition, there are several other factors that form a special risk group:
- hypertension;
- diabetes mellitus;
- hereditary factor;
- overweight;
- malnutrition;
- postmenopause;
- emotional stress.
Patients with a history of such pathologies need to know how to clean blood vessels from cholesterol plaques?
Symptoms
Symptomatics, indicating the presence of growths in the vessels, develops gradually and depends on the stage of the pathology.
- Man fasttired, often irritated, reduced efficiency.
- Memory weakens, forgetfulness develops.
- Headaches are often disturbing, which can be of varying intensity, dizziness.
- The patient complains of discomfort in the back of the head, the lower and upper limbs often go numb, hearing worsens.
- Negative changes occur in the emotional background: depression, fear, euphoria, tearfulness, a sense of inhibition and excitability develop.
- Patient has speech problems, daytime sleepiness, difficulty waking up in the morning, frequent insomnia, nightmares.
- When cholesterol plaques increase in size, disturbances in the functioning of the vestibular apparatus occur, tremors appear in the limbs, an unsteady gait, and itching while eating.
The severity of symptoms depends on the size of the growths, to put it more clearly, on the stage of development of atherosclerosis. Initial manifestations may disappear quickly after a good rest.
Improvement occurs after walking in the fresh air, because they contribute to the intensive flow of oxygen into the body. At the initial stage, patients do not pay attention to their temporary poor he alth and do not go to the doctor. It is only when the symptoms worsen that the alarm begins to sound.
What are dangerous
Cholesterol plaques in the body can cause two types of circulatory problems:
Acute occurs when there is a sudden blockage of blood flow inbrain or heart. This happens at the moment when the contents of the plaque enters the lumen of the vessel and leads to the appearance of a blood clot. Or, in any other artery, it breaks off and rushes with the flow, reaches an artery of a smaller diameter, and it cannot overcome it, so a congestion occurs. As a result, myocardial infarction and other organs occur
Chronic recurrence occurs as a result of degenerative changes in the vessels, the blood flow is disturbed, but the blood can still circulate, albeit with difficulty. Nutrition is supplied to the internal organs, but it is not enough for their normal operation. An example of this kind of disorder is a chronic form of ischemia, dyscirculatory encephalopathy, senile dementia, kidney pathology, atherosclerosis of the arteries of the lower extremities
The vessels of the brain are vulnerable due to the peculiarities of the anatomical structure of the circulatory system of this important organ in the human body. Therefore, it is important to take action in time and know how to clean the vessels from cholesterol plaques.
Nutrition and oxygen to the brain come through the cervical arteries. In these vessels, an atherosclerotic process can also develop, which most often affects the carotid arteries. But it’s not easy to completely close it, since the diameter is large, but even the slightest narrowing can disrupt blood circulation in the brain. Cholesterol plaques and thrombus will not disrupt the blood flow of the carotid artery, but will go to smaller vessels and cause their destructive effect there.
Diagnostic methods
The symptoms indicated by the patient are not enough to make an accurate diagnosis. To clarify the problems, doctors recommend additionally using the following diagnostic methods:
- Complete blood count. High sugar and cholesterol levels will confirm a problem.
- An ECG will reveal the symptoms of a heart attack.
- Angiography helps to check the condition of the coronary arteries, to detect narrowing or complete blockage.
- Dopplerography helps to measure blood pressure at several points at once in order to most informatively assess the speed of blood flow and narrowing of the ducts.
- Stress testing will help to check the work of the heart and blood vessels when the patient is under stress. This method is important, because in a calm state, not all symptoms may appear.
- Cardiovisor helps to assess the cardiovascular system more extensively.
- CT is performed using a contrast agent, this is how you can get a clear visualization of information in the pictures.
- Magnetic resonance angiography is similar to conventional MRI but uses a magnetic field.
- Ankle-brachial index helps measure pressure in the shoulder and ankle area, so you can determine the speed of the duct and reveal how vasoconstricted.
After an accurate diagnosis is made, the doctor tells the patient how to remove cholesterol plaques.
How to get rid of growths in the vessels?
There are several ways to clean them.
- One of them is a cleansing by forcing an increase in blood pressure. The tissues are nourished by the powerful flow of blood. But this method does not prevent the formation of new plaques, so cleaning becomes a looping process.
- There is another way to clean the arteries - to expand the narrowed process to its original diameter. Therapy is based on taking medications that have a vasodilating effect. But most drugs have side effects.
- Another way is to increase vascular tone. Good results are obtained by extracorporeal hemocorrection - cleansing of blood vessels from cholesterol plaques (this method also helps to remove the formed growths from the eyelids) with the help of blood sampling. The extracted blood is divided into components and returned back to the body. This method allows the patient to get rid of all the cholesterol deposited in the body.
In order for the treatment to really bring a positive result, it is necessary to approach the solution of the issue in a complex manner. Doctors recommend:
preventive measures that include a low cholesterol diet, smoking cessation and regular exercise;
- life needs to be changed dramatically, start eating right, give up alcohol, regularly undergo examinations and take recommended drugs;
- use lipid-lowering therapy;
- clean withstatins;
- use essential phospholipids;
- timely conduct surgery: stenting and shunting.
Surgical removal of growths in the vessels is recommended only if taking drugs and following a strict diet did not give the desired result. The main goal of the surgeon is to strengthen the walls of blood vessels and act on cholesterol plaques in the neck and other parts of the body.
Strengthen and cleanse the blood vessels can be such drugs:
- ion exchange resins;
- fibrates;
- nicotinic acid;
- statins;
- fish oil;
- vitamins.
It is not enough just to clean the cholesterol plaques in the vessels, it is important to restore their strength and elasticity. Subsequently, you need to be more attentive to your body and respond to any symptom, especially if it recurs. It is easy to clog vessels, but it is much more difficult to clean them.
Treatment of cholesterol plaques with folk methods
Patients need to remember that traditional medicine will give the desired result when used in conjunction with traditional methods. There are several effective remedies that will help clean blood vessels from cholesterol plaques and blood clots:
- Take 500 grams of chopped celery and parsley roots, add lemon and 1/2 cup honey. Take this mixture before meals 3 times a day, 1 tablespoon.
- The garlic-lemon mixture helps a lot. Take a head of garlic, chop together with one lemon, pour water andleave on knocks to infuse. Take this mixture in the morning and evening, 2 tbsp. l.
- Garlic tincture has been used for cleaning vessels since ancient times and has proven its effectiveness more than once. It is necessary to grind 150 g of peeled garlic cloves, add 150 ml of alcohol. Leave to stand for 10 days in a dark ventilated place. After strain and leave for another three days. It is important to follow the correct regimen: start with 1 drop for the first dose, and there are three of them per day, after each time increase the dose by 1 drop. On the morning of the 6th day, you will need to take 15 drops and so all three doses, and the next day the dosage will also decrease by 1 drop per dose.
- Mix equal amounts of St. John's wort, birch buds, yarrow leaves, chamomile flowers and immortelle. After that, take 50 g of the collection and pour it with a liter of hot boiled water, leave for 20 minutes. Drink a decoction in the morning on an empty stomach, 1/2 cup, if necessary, you can add honey.
- Take one glass of dill seeds, add 50 g of valerian root powder and 350 ml of honey. Pour this mixture with two liters of boiling water, it is better to do this in a thermos, but you can just wrap it well. You need to take the remedy three times a day, 15 ml each.
- Each morning on an empty stomach, take 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, the best effect is olive, linseed and pumpkin.
- You can mix olive, pumpkin and linseed oil in equal amounts, add lemon juice and honey. Drink this remedy 1 spoon per day.
- Good effect gives the use of walnuts. In our case, we use themthe green part, but if they are not there, then the kernels will do. Grind raw materials in a meat grinder and store in a glass jar in the refrigerator. Mixture take 1 tbsp. l. in the morning on an empty stomach. The course is 2 months, therapy is recommended once a year.
- Crushed dried dandelion roots take a teaspoon twice a day for 6 months.
- Take two tablespoons of yarrow, add 15 g of lemon balm and valerian. Grind all raw materials as finely as possible, take two tablespoons of powder and pour a glass of cold water, leave for about 3 hours in the refrigerator, and then boil in ceramic dishes. The entire portion of the broth must be drunk during the day. Repeat the procedure for 21 days, every day, preparing a new fresh decoction.
Removal of cholesterol plaques is a rather difficult and lengthy process, so it is better not to allow their deposition, but to periodically clean the vessels using folk methods.
Preventive measures
Today, a whole range of preventive measures has been developed, thanks to which you can protect your body from the formation of plaques. Many studies have shown that people who follow a vegetarian diet and a he althy lifestyle suffer less from vascular blockage. If we follow from this principle of life, then prevention is:
- in less use of animal fats: butter, cod liver, eggs, lard, fatty meats;
- do not eatsmoked and fried foods;
- eat fractionally every day;
- add as many dairy products as possible to your diet;
- in the diet to use more plant foods, dried fruits and seafood.
If the disease is already making itself felt, then in this case it is necessary to add fruits and vegetables to the diet in raw or boiled form. Try to watch your weight. Give up bad habits and exercise. The sooner a person changes his life, the less likely it is that death will occur from a heart attack or stroke.
