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Cholesterol acts like a ‘silent killer’, if its symptoms are not identified in time, there may be a risk of severe heart disease and stroke. Due to today’s changing lifestyle, fast food and not doing workouts, people are seeing problems like high cholesterol. Increasing cholesterol increases the risk of heart diseases manifold, but most people do not take it seriously until a big health emergency comes.
But do you know that the body already starts giving you some indication that the amount of cholesterol in your blood is getting higher than normal? These signs are connected to the eyes, skin and breath, but people ignore them. If these symptoms are identified in time, then a big problem can be avoided. Let us know from experts, when cholesterol increases, the body alerts through signs.
What do you say expert?
Dr. Meenakshi Jain of Patparganj Max Hospital in Delhi says that, If the amount of cholesterol in the body has increased, then it is best to conduct cholesterol blood test or ‘lipid profile’. With these tests, you get to know the amount of your good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. But you can find out without test that the amount of cholesterol in the body has increased. Because when cholesterol increases, the body starts giving some indications that can alert you. Let’s know about those signs.
Cholesterol has increased in the body
Eye
If yellow patches (called genthlajma) around your eyes start appearing, then it can be a clean indication of high cholesterol. These are small accumulated fat deposits, which start appearing on the skin. This is a sign of increasing cholesterol.
Gray or white ring around the cornea
If a white or light gray color ring is formed around your eyes cornea (black pupil), it is called ‘Arcus Cineylis’. If these symptoms are seen in the youth, then understand that cholesterol in the body has increased. On finding out, get an inquiry done.
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Chest pain
If there is a feeling of heaviness or pain in the chest even when walking lightly or climbing stairs, it can be a sign of not reaching enough blood to the heart, which can be caused by blockage and high cholesterol.
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breathlessness
If you do some minor things and feel tired quickly or breathe, it can be a sign of effect on oxygen supply in the body, which can be caused by cholesterol-related artery blockage. In such a situation, you should investigate immediately.
Lila
If your hands and feet fingers often feel blue or cold, it indicates that blood supply to the body parts is not reaching properly, one of the reasons for this may be the narrow of blood arteries due to cholesterol.