Stroke is a common and frequently-occurring disease in the elderly, with high incidence and disability rate, which seriously affects the health of middle-aged and elderly people. In order to prevent and treat stroke, besides routine medication, a reasonable diet is also very important for prevention and treatment. Autumn diet should be based on the principle of preventing dryness, protecting yin, nourishing yin and moistening lung. It's best to stay away from those spicy and exciting foods and eat more sour foods. The diet of stroke patients is generally based on the principles of low salt, low fat, low starch, low cholesterol, high cellulose and high minerals. Pay attention to the following four aspects.

(1) The staple foods of stroke patients are mainly whole grains and vegetables. They should eat more coarse rice flour and use vegetable oils such as soybean oil, peanut oil and corn oil when cooking. Eating more fresh vegetables, carrots and spinach can obviously reduce the incidence of stroke, and don't eat more fruits because of their high sugar content.

(2) You can eat some beans and fungus foods, such as mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms and fungus. , which contains a variety of amino acids needed by the human body.

(3) The daily intake of salt should be below 6g. For middle-aged and elderly patients, alcohol, strong tea, coffee, spicy spices and other foods that excite the nervous system should be avoided.

(4) If stroke patients often choke when eating, they should be given mushy food and chewed slowly to prevent eating from entering the trachea by mistake. The pasty food is steamed egg soup, thick porridge with minced meat and vegetables, rotten noodles with minced meat and vegetables, lotus root starch washed with milk, and fruit paste, or mashed with a masher for patients to eat.