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Posted in Stroke on January-11-2008

Symptoms of mini strokeMini stroke is caused by the temporary disturbance of blood supply to a restricted area of the brain. The mini stroke also called A transient ischemic attack (TIA). Mostly, the cause of mini stoke is a choke an artery in the brain. Other reasons include excessive narrowing of large vessels due to an atherosclerotic plaque and increased blood viscosity due to some blood diseases. There are some disease that are related to this disease like hypertension, heart disease (especially atrial fibrillation), migraine, cigarette smoking, hypercholesterolemia, and diabetes mellitus.

The most common symptoms of mini stroke are disturbances on taste, vision, and speech. They may change their way of taste or even loss their ability to taste. Most of the patients are reported having a difficulty to focus, see clearly and even see at all. They also may be having a difficulty to speak clearly and coherently.

Other symptoms of mini stroke are muscle weakness, numbness and trembles. If someone who has kind of symptom or those symptoms, one should immedietly takes a medical action. For a person who suffers from mini stroke, every single minute is very important to take further medication. Every delay action will cost more brain damage. These symptoms of mini stroke should not take lighly, take an immediate action to take a medical check up.




 
Posted in Stroke on November-27-2007

Stroke SymptomsThere are many symptoms of stroke that should seek immediate medical attention once you experienced any of it, you might have a great risk if the medical attention doesn’t take immediately. The overdue medication attention have a risk on the brain injury that can cause paralysis or long term disability.

Here are some symptoms that may occur:

  • Sudden numbness, weakness or paralysis of the face, arm, or leg, typically on one side of the body
  • Sudden vision problems in one or both eyes, such as double vision, blurring, dimness, or even loss of sight
  • Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding
  • Sudden onset of confusion, having trouble speaking, understanding or walking
  • Sudden dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
  • Suffers severe headache suddenly, with no known cause
  • The symptoms experienced by one can vary, depending on whether the stroke is caused by a blood clot or bleeding. The rate and intensity of such symptoms also depends on the severity of the condition. A large blood clot will cause symptoms to appear within seconds, whereas a narrowed artery will take minutes, hours, or maybe even days to appear.

    Stroke is one of the top 3 killers worldwide, and is considered a medical emergency. The faster you can diagnose the symptoms, a great and have faster opportunity to heal.