Mini 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.