The first 3-6 hours after a stroke - a critical period, when all changes in the brain are still reversible. Four simple tests will help you appeal to the doctor and save someone's life.
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Headache, dizziness, weakness — who did not experience such
Symptoms? We find them a thousand explanations: the end of the working week, nerves, fatigue,
Magnetic storm, heat, critical days, climax. Unfortunately, we often
underestimate the severity of your condition and pay attention to the like
Complaints of people close to us. At the same time, the health and life of a person who has happened
stroke, largely depends on how quickly it will be rendered
health care.
Neuropathologists I
Neurosurgeons consider the first 3-6 hours after the stroke of the critical period, when all changes occurring in the brain are
reversible. In other words, if the treatment started in this time, terrible
The effects of the brain disaster will be avoided with a large probability.
How to determine the disease? What are the first signs of stroke?
Harbinger
stroke
The earliest signs of brain circulation disorders are
Headache, dizziness, sudden weakness, nausea, sometimes vomiting.
When stroke, the face is covered later, becomes red or vice versa
pale. It is observed, weakness, the coordination of movements is disturbed,
A feeling of crawling goosebumps and leg appears, and on one side of the body.
Tests on
stroke
To understand what is happening with man and eliminate stroke, it is necessary
spend only 4 simple tests.
- Ask a man to smile. About the development of stroke
says asymmetry of nasolabial folds, omitting the corner of the mouth on one side, in
The result of which the smile turns out «Single-sided». Either a person can not smile at all. - Talk to a person And ask him
answer the simplest question. In stroke, it will be a slow, stretched,
with stuffing, vague because the language of the patient will be braided, as if
Drunk. Either a person will not be able to say anything at all. - Ask the patient to launch the tongue, in case of stroke you
See the deviation of it in one of the sides. - Offer a man to raise hands up. One hand will be
lag from another or one hand will remain fixed. And if you ask the patient at the same time shake you both
Hands, you clearly experience the difference in the power of handshake.
More
Late signs of stroke
- Confusion of consciousness and misunderstanding of reversed speech.
- Violation of hearing and vision.
- Changes in the character of breathing or its complete stop.
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Sharp decrease in blood pressure or even stop cardiac
activities. - Pronounced asymmetry of the face and mimic folds.
- Partial or full paralysis of extremities.
- Violation of urination and defecation, including urinary incontinence and feces.
Stroke or acute
Brainwater impairment is accompanied by a resistant
neurological symptoms, violation of vision, speech, paresis and muscle paralysis
Body. Strokes are divided into ischemic and hemorrhagic. With ischemic
insults of the brain experiencing oxygen starvation as a result of a long
Spasm or blockage of its feeding blood vessels, when hemorrhagic occurs
Blood vessel gap, hemorrhage in the brain with the formation of large
Hematoma or impregnation of brain tissues.
You can also take a test "Check on stroke". Try to remember this information. Perhaps someday she will save life
close to you man.
