Preventing Recurrent Stroke: Eating Healthy
Eating healthy foods helps lower cholesterol levels and reduce plaque buildup in arteries. It can also help you lose weight and keep high blood pressure under control.
Eating healthy foods helps lower cholesterol levels and reduce plaque buildup in arteries. It can also help you lose weight and keep high blood pressure under control.
A stroke requires immediate medical attention. Know the signs of stroke.
After a stroke, regaining power involves self-care. Many learn to manage bowel and bladder issues. Using impaired limbs for bathing and dressing aids muscle recovery, and daily use of affected hands often restores function.
Some people have trouble swallowing (dysphagia) after a stroke. This makes choking more likely. It also puts their health at more risk for conditions like aspiration pneumonia. To make sure your loved one gets the nutrition they need, a speech therapist may teach them ways to improve swallowing.
After a stroke, a person may have trouble using all or part of the body. Improving posture, range of motion, and strength are early goals.
Certain health and lifestyle issues - called risk factors - increase your chances of having a stroke. This page helps you identify which risk factors you have.
The brain needs a constant supply of blood to work. During a stroke, blood stops flowing to part of the brain.
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