| Clogged neck arteries commonly happen when | | | | of the blockage, your health condition, and the |
| we get older. The severity can be varies. This | | | | symptoms. You should consider doing overall |
| neck or carotid arteries are the two main blood | | | | treatment because when your neck arteries get |
| vessels to the brain. People who suffer from this | | | | clogged, you may have them in other areas. |
| conditions doesn't always develop a symptom, | | | | Surgery may include carotid endarterectomy (it |
| some of them may not feel a thing. The blockage | | | | opens the clogged neck artery and removes the |
| can lead to mini stroke or major stroke. Any of | | | | plaque), and carotid angioplasty and stenting (it |
| the treatments are intended to prevent clogged | | | | inflates a tiny balloon at the end of a long hollow |
| neck arteries become a stroke. | | | | tube within the clogged artery, then inserts a |
| Clogged neck or carotid arteries happen when the | | | | wire-mesh metal stent, so the arteries will stay |
| blood stream gets blocked by plaques. These | | | | wide open). Surgery should only be carried out in |
| plaques will narrow the arteries and cause the | | | | relatively healthy asymptomatic patients with |
| blood to clot. The clots and plaques that form in | | | | 80-90% clogged conditions, that what many |
| that area can prevent the blood, nutrients, | | | | vascular surgeons and I believe. |
| oxygen to flow to the brain. That's when the | | | | Non surgical method can include medication or |
| clogging occurs that lead to a strokes. | | | | drugs, healthy diet, exercise, reduce or even stop |
| Before you do any treatment, you need to know | | | | your smoking habit, control your diabetes and |
| if you really have clogged neck arteries. Your | | | | cholesterol, get a support from a health |
| doctor can help to diagnose your conditions by | | | | supplement, and anything that lower your risk |
| evaluating your medical history, perform a physical | | | | factor to have clogged arteries. Doing combination |
| examination (the blood pressure, pulse and | | | | can give you a significant result and a lot of |
| checking for a bruit) and more intense tests | | | | faster. |
| (carotid duplex or ultrasound, stress tests, EKG, | | | | You may realize that the clogged neck arteries or |
| and/or echocardiography). Any symptoms that | | | | any other areas don't happen overnight. It |
| you may experience should be told to your | | | | happens through a long process. I think it's very |
| doctor. | | | | important to keep your life in control all the time. |
| Some of the clogged neck arteries treatment can | | | | These days, supplements have bigger influence on |
| be divided to surgical and non surgical method. | | | | people health. You should take advantages from |
| Your treatment may vary based on the severity | | | | them also. |