what are the treatment on atherosclerosis ??

Question

and answering just by saying "go see a doctor" just to get 2pts. is really not gonna help a lot cause we thought of that

Answer 1

Diet is the hardest yet most effective way of preventing further artherosclerosis or preventing it entirely. Next up, treatment. There are many different ways to go with this, alot depends on your age and the severity of the disease. First is medical treatment with such things as lipitor and all the cholesterol blockers. However, if your arteries already have a serious stenosis, you must move on. Next step-cardiac cath. This is where a cardiologist goes in through your groin with a wire and visualizes your arteries, from there they can determine if you need intervention. If you do, it can be a few things. You can have a PTCA-we call it the rotorouter. They take a fine blade and clear the plaque off your arterial walls. then they remove the plaque through the cath they have in there. They may also place a stent. This is a wire spring like device-think like the spring on a push pen. The put this in your artery and engage it, it will push the plaque up against the walls of your arteries, creating a clearing for blood flow. Most commonly, they do both. However, if you have multivessel disease, or are severly occluded and this intervention is not possible, CABG- coronary artery bypass graft-open heart surgery is all that is left-if you are considered a good candidate. This of course, involves a full surgery, opening of your chest, rerouting the blood flow through your arteries with veins harvested from your body, most commonly a leg vein or a mammary artery. No matter what intervention used, you must remember that before your treatment, and after, you gotta maintain a healthy lifestyle-but that doesn't mean living your life on oatmeal, bran muffins, and chicken breasts. Try to meet with a registered dietian to see what you can incorporate into your lifestyle, or go to the american heart association website, they have lots of information for you. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Your question is too general.

There are a lot of lifestyle changes for most people.

Going to a very low fat heart healthy diet is important, eliminate stress. Add a lot of high antioxidant fruits to your diet. Exercise moderately almost daily, but never overdo it.

Pomegranate is one of the few foods that seem to have sufficient anti-oxidants to do minor artery "unblocking" with regular use. But its a very slow process.

Read up on the Dr. Dean Ornish atherosclerosis reversal diet.

Answer 3

Atherosclerosis is not reversible, you can try to keep it from getting any worse, by proper diet.

Answer 4

try chelation.