A Useful Guide of Detecting the Stroke & Dealing with It

When stroke advances to a chronic stage, it has long term devastating effects causing death of victims. What it usually does is to cut supply of oxygenated blood to the brain. Without oxygen to the brain, brain cells suffer significant damages and several parts of the body that depend on the brain also stop to work. In other words, it’s an attack on the brain that cause failure of some other part of the body.

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While it’s one of the leading cause of death (5th killer disease) and long-term disabilities in middle-aged and aged folks, early brain stroke treatment minimizes its effects and prevents death. On this account, it’s important to know and be wary of its early signs and symptoms plus how to deal with them.

In a bid and quest to savage, the term F.A.S.T is used to describe and remember brain stroke symptoms and signs:

  • Face drooping- numbness is experienced in part or whole of the face. Eyes may get twitchy sometimes.
  • Arm frailty- this happens when one arm doesn’t respond normally- the arms become numb and less insensate. Victim can’t raise numb as fast and high as the other arm.
  • Speech problem- early stage of brain stroke is characterized by speech difficulty- inability to pronounce words correctly or blurred words, sounding like those of a baby learning to talk.
  • Time to call 911- Don’t hesitate to call 911 or the distress and emergency line peculiar to your country when any or all of the signs highlighted above is apparent. The faster a victim is rushed to the clinic, the better their chances of survival.

Dealing with the signs

Those signs are attributed to Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA), acute or mini stroke; call that brain stroke at its early stage. They sometimes come and go. It’s important to deal with them by consulting a brain stroke treatment expert whether they are evident or not and get checked at the best hospital for brain stroke treatment in India.


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