Symptoms and Causes of Stroke

Stroke Symptoms and Causes of Stroke

Stroke is cerebrovascular disease (cerebrovascular) is characterized by the death of brain tissue (cerebral infarction) this is caused because of the blockage, constriction or rupture of blood vessels that supply blood to the brain and reduced oxygen to the brain and cause a series of biochemical reactions that would destroy or a lethal nerve cells of the brain.

Signs and Symptoms of Stroke

Small attack or stroke initial attack usually begins with memory decline and confusion often suddenly and then disappear within 24 hours except that the signs and symptoms of stroke can be observed from a few things:

1. Presence of focal neurological attacks in the form of weakness or paralysis of an arm, leg or one side of the body
2. Muscle weakness (hemiplegia), stiffness and decreased sensory function
3. Loss of feeling or abnormal sensation in the arm or leg or one side of the body such as numbness, numbness next to the body, feels tingling, burning bahakan like burning under the skin
4. Impaired vision can be seen as only partially or not able to see the whole as a dark vision and double vision momentarily
5. Decreased ability to smell and taste
6. Walking becomes difficult and hobbled stride sometimes even total paralysis
7. Loss of control of your bladder so frequent urination unwittingly
8. Loss of balance, body movements are not well coordinated
9. Not understanding the speech of others, not being able to read, write and count properly
10. The disruption and difficulty in swallowing food or beverages (likely keselek)
11. Speech disturbance and difficult language indicated by slurred speech (rero), nasal, pelo, stuttering and speak a word haya difficult even to think or say the right words
12. Being Forgetful (Dementia) and not able to recognize parts of the body
13. Vertigo (dizziness, headache) or a persistent feeling of spinning when no activity
14. Difficult eyelids open
15. Become more sensitive, prone to crying or laughing
16. Plenty of sleep and always want to sleep
17. Disturbance of consciousness, fainting until he was unconscious

Causes of Stroke

There are two factors that are the cause of stroke is a medical risk and risk behavior

• Medical risk factors that cause or exacerbate stroke include hypertension (high blood pressure), cholesterol, arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), heart problems, diabetes, family history of stroke (keturnan factor) and migraine (pain kepelah door). According to statistics 80% of the trigger stroke is hypertension and arteriosclerosis
• Disebakan behavioral risk factors by lifestyle and unhealthy eating habits such as smoking, consuming carbonated beverages and alcoholic likes to eat fast food (fast food and junk food). Other behavioral risk factors is the lack of motion activity / exercise and obesity. One of the triggers is also uncomfortable susasana heart as often angry for no apparent reason.