New drugs to treat stroke

Acute disorders of cerebral circulation or stroke - is caused by death of a part of brain cells, due to a violation of blood supply. Statistics show that this disease, unfortunately, has become younger each year. To cope with this disease will help new drugs to treat stroke.

Stroke refers to serious diseases, the consequences of which are very serious and sudden, and sometimes, tragic. Therefore, with the first symptoms of the disease you need to go to a medical institution. Patients with consequences of a stroke in neurological departments are observed, where an accurate diagnosis of the nature of acute cerebrovascular accident is performed, timely intensive treatment at an early stage of rehabilitation. Due to this, disability and mortality among patients are significantly reduced.

Stages of stroke treatment.

As a rule, treatment is carried out in two directions: first, treatment of the consequences of acute cerebrovascular accident. And the second is prevention to prevent the recurrence of cardiovascular problems.

One of the most serious and major consequences of a stroke is a violation of the motor function of the body. It is not so easy to restore it. This process requires a lot of time and patience. The most rapid recovery occurs during the first three months of the disease. Further, the process of restoration does not stop, six months it passes actively, but it can drag on for up to a year.

Therapy.

With timely therapy, it is possible to restore the motor function of the limbs even in severe patients who have absolutely no movement in their limbs. A competent course of physiotherapy leads to the fact that such patients, after three to six months after a stroke, gain the ability to stand up independently, stand and walk slowly. This is one of the main goals of rehabilitation.

Gymnastics.

It is absolutely necessary to conduct medical gymnastics already from the first days of stay in the hospital, of course, if there are no contraindications to physical exertion. Develop the affected limbs regularly, starting with a few minutes. It is recommended to conduct lessons at least three times a day, gradually increasing the load. You can not delay the process of developing the motor function, so after three days the patient should start to sit in bed, if there was an intracerebral haemorrhage, then only after one or two weeks. Then they gradually move on to the exercises to train the skill to stand and walk with special attachments. The loads, of course, increase gradually if there are no contraindications to other doctors. To ease possible pain during gymnastics, various ointments or compresses are recommended, for example, with dimexide.

In case of speech disorders, specialists recommend speech therapy exercises, a person should constantly hear the speech of people around him, leading TV programs, radio, TV.It is necessary to stimulate the patient to communicate, despite the serious degree of damage to speech. We recommend regular reading aloud for the victim, attract him to creative pursuits - writing, molding from plasticine. And of course, a constant positive atmosphere around the patient. The unquenchable motivation to continue the studies, praise, ascertaining success. All this contributes to a speedy recovery.

New drugs and medications.

Antidepressants are widely used in the treatment of stroke. Practice confirms that they prolong the life of people who underwent an acute disorder of cerebral circulation. At what treatment with antidepressants prescribes to all patients with this disease. When passing the course of therapy, there is always a positive dynamics.

Studies have shown that the use of antidepressants in the treatment of patients after stroke greatly increased the life span for all groups of patients, regardless of whether they were depressed or not. Accordingly, it is confirmed that processes that affect the level of mortality risk are somehow associated with depression and should be corrected with antidepressant drugs.

In the near future, there is a hope to get a new effective medicine, new drugs that will save the lives of people affected by acute cerebral circulation disorders not only in the first hours after the tragedy, but also to those patients who later applied for help to the medical institution.

Research.

This perspective appeared in connection with the research of American scientists, during which they came to a conclusion how to influence the death of brain cells and regulate the process.

Scientists have successfully performed tests in mice that used a substance already used in medicine. When introduced into the animal's organism, it reduced the neurological consequences of acute cerebral circulation impairment by ninety-one percent!

Scientists explained this phenomenon by the fact that most of the brain cells after the stroke are not killed at the first time, when they are not provided with oxygen, but much later, when the body "understands" and "decides" that the damaged cell is better to die. This phenomenon in science has a name - apoptosis.

Researches of scientists have confirmed that the activated protein C used for severe sepsis can reduce such programmed cell death. The action occurs through cellular receptors, where the content of p53-protein molecules decreases, which affects cell death as a result of hypoxia and increases the content of substances that inhibit dying out. It was found that under the action of activated protein C, up to sixty-five percent of those cells survive, which otherwise would have died as a result of acute disturbance of cerebral circulation. In general, experiments showed that neurologic disorders after a stroke suffered decreased by ninety-one percent.