Stroke can strike the young and healthy

20-year-old confronted with severe headaches and numbness of the limbs, which did not take seriously. Meanwhile, all this It turned out to be symptoms of a stroke, which is not often found among Patients such a young age.

Extensive stroke

About a month at the Englishwoman Elizabeth Ashmore numb hand, but she thought it was simply a consequence of rapid growth process in its body. After one of the Sunday family dinners she complained severe headache, and the parents advised her to go to sleep early to "the morning everything went." Liz did so, but in the morning she could not get out of bed since lost the ability to control half of the body.

Extensive stroke

More than that, Elizabeth temporarily lost her memory and did not I could not tell what time it is. At the hospital, the girl was diagnosed massive stroke That was a real shock for her, and for parents who and could not imagine that this disease can strike at them perfectly healthy, slim and very young daughter who never smoked and loved do sport.

Doctors discovered she had middle cerebral artery occlusion - Blockage of a blood vessel of the brain. Perhaps the reason for this was renal nephrotic syndrome, which can cause blood clots. Across Three months after hospitalization student of graphic design Elizabeth Ashmore returned home after an intensive course of physiotherapy.

She still uses a wheelchair because it does not He feels left hands, ankles and toes of the left foot, but she is set restore full control of the body after massive stroke . "I want its history to draw attention to the fact that a stroke can strike very young people - says Elizabeth. - It is not a disease of old men, so do not ignore suspicious symptoms. If I went to the doctor on time, then, Perhaps now would be completely healthy. "(Read More)

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