Atherosclerosis and its Treatment

Tillar kafedrasi O'qituvchi: M.B.BAROTOVA These disturbances begin long before there is any external evidance of the disease.Therefore the doctor must prevent its appearance beginning preventive measures and treatment as early as possble. Prevention and treat ment of atheroscle ro sis consist mainly of a certain regiment for the patient, which he must stric tly follov. The patient mus t get up, eat, work, and go to bed at exactl y the same time every day. Sound sleep is very important since it enables the nerve to re st. The patient with the signs of atherosclerosis must sleep not less than 7-8 hours and va lk before going to bed . Mental and physica l overstrain must be excluded. The incidence of at herosclerosis is high in professional grou ps with insufficient physical activities. So physical exercises must be part of the prescribed regimend for such persons. Smoking affects unfavourably the walls of the blood vessels and can result in their spasm, that is why patients suffering from atherosclerosis must not smoke. The died of the patient with atherosclero- sis must contain sufficient amount of pro- teins, but fats and carbohydrates must be taken in very limited doses. Vitamins are widely used in the treat- ment of atherosclthem erosis because some of them improve the metabolic processes and oyher dilate the vessels, particulary the paripheral ones. Other drugs administered in treating at- herosclersis are the so-called lipotropic substances, which prevent far from ac- cumulating in the organism. Since the nervous system ...