Recognize The Dangers Of Blood Clots

Blood clots is a very important self-protection mechanism of the human body, which undertakes the function of hemostasis. When our body suffers from trauma and bleeds, we rely on blood clots to stop the bleeding. This hemostatic blood clots usually occurs outside the blood vessel. However, if the blood clots occurs in the blood vessel, it will affect the blood circulation, block the lumen of the blood vessel, and cause the blood flow of the blood vessel to be significantly reduced or even completely interrupted, resulting in disease. The dangers of blood clots-related mainly include atherosclerotic blood clots, venous thromboembolism and arterial embolism.

Causes of blood clots

Blood viscosity

Blood thickening is not an independent disease, and many clinical diseases such as arteriosclerosis, cerebral blood clots, myocardial infarction, hypertension, diabetes, obstructive retinitis and chronic liver and kidney diseases are closely related to blood thickening. When the viscosity of human blood increases, the blood flow rate slows down, and the oxygen and nutrients obtained by the body tissues are relatively reduced, especially the excessive aging and hardening of red blood cells, red blood cells agglomeration, aggravating blood thickening and coagulation, blood clots appear, causing blood vessels embolism, resulting in ischemic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Platelet aggregation rate is too high

When the viscous blood flows through some small blood vessels, it is easy to form emboli, and then develop into large blood clots, and even more serious blood vessel blockages occur. Especially in patients who have already had vascular blockages, it is easy to form secondary blockages. For example, in coronary intervention, a stent is placed after the coronary artery is blocked. The stent stretches the blocked blood vessel and improves the symptoms of myocardial ischemia. However, many people still experience the re-formation of blood clots after coronary intervention. The main problem is that the aggregation rate of platelets is too high. Therefore, people with a high platelet aggregation rate, especially those with blood clots disease, need to take anticoagulant drugs.

What are the dangers of blood clots?

Once a blood clot is formed, it becomes a "time bomb" that travels in our body. Once it reaches a certain part of the body with the blood flow and stays there, it is bound to block the blood vessel and cause serious dangers of blood clots.

Myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction

Coronary arteries are blood vessels that supply blood to the heart. On the basis of coronary atherosclerosis, if the sclerotic plaque ruptures, a sufficient amount of thrombogenic substances will be exposed to form a thrombus, block the blood vessel, and eventually lead to the loss of blood nourishment to the myocardium supplied by the blood vessel and necrosis occurs. This is what we call a myocardial infarction. In the same way, if the thrombus falls off after being formed, and flows to the intracranial artery along the blood flow, causing blockage, cerebral embolism occurs.

Deep vein blood clots, pulmonary embolism

Most pulmonary embolisms are caused by deep vein blood clots and shedding, so the two together are called venous thromboembolism. The occurrence of venous thromboembolism is related to trauma and slow blood flow. Deep vein blood clots not only leads to lower limb swelling and dysfunction, but also fatal pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary embolism occurs in one day. If it is not diagnosed and treated effectively, the mortality rate is as high as 35%, which is one of the main causes of death from blood clots.

Reminder: In view of the above-mentioned dangers of blood clots, it is imperative to prevent and treat blood clots

1. Actively control hypertension, reduce blood lipids, reduce blood viscosity, and actively treat blood clots-related diseases, such as atherosclerosis, diabetes, rheumatic heart valve disease, atrial fibrillation, etc.

2. in life should quit smoking and limit alcohol to prevent vascular endothelial damage. Usually drink plenty of water to prevent blood stasis.

3. eat more natto. Natto is a food made by adding natto bacteria to boiled soybeans and fermenting them. Experts pointed out that the natto bacteria, lecithin, linoleic acid, etc. contained in natto food can eliminate chemical substances such as triglycerides in the blood, especially can dissolve "hidden blood clots", which can purify the blood and make the blood Smooth flow, etc. In addition, to avoid mental stress and physical overwork, appropriate physical exercise to maintain physical and mental health.

Conclusion

Blood clots can be described as the number one enemy that endangers health. We should correctly understand the dangers of blood clots and prevent it in advance.