A stroke is increasingly affecting young people – alarms Dr. Karolina Gramsz -Drzewiecka, a neurology specialist from the Provincial Specialist Hospital No. 5 in Sosnowiec. “Statistics are even alarming.”
Key facts:
- A stroke is a disease that more and more often affects young people.
- Statistics show that every eighth patient is a person under 45.
- The neurologist says what the symptoms are and explains what to do in case of suspected stroke.
Dr Karolina Gramsz-Drzewiecka pointed out that stroke is increasingly affecting young people. As indicated by the doctor, every eighth patient reaching a stroke ward is a person under 45. These are often athletic people, without visible health loads. “Most of them would not expect that something like this could happen to them someday,” she added.
– Statistics are even alarming. We all live in the belief that a stroke, especially ischemic, affects seniors, patients over 75 years of age. However, every eighth patient hospitalized in our stroke ward is a patient under 45 – she noted.
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Symptoms of stroke in young people do not differ from those occurring in the elderly. These include, among others, sudden speech disorders, weakness of the muscle strength of the upper, lower limb, sudden, very strong dizziness and balance disorders. – We do not wait, we do not go to lie down, do not rest, but we immediately call an ambulance – the neurologist pointed out.
They don't believe it's a disease
She emphasized that many patients do not believe that it could be a stroke. Young people lose their symptoms on fatigue, overwork, excessive physical or mental effort. “They can't even believe that such a disease could happen to them,” she added.
The consequences are serious – some patients go to the hospital too late, after a key window for thrombolytic treatment or through mechanical thrombectomy (pharmacological or mechanical clothes removal).
Key treatment and rehabilitation
After implementing treatment, it is equally important to determine the causes of stroke that differ from those occurring in seniors. – These may be autoimmune diseases, so -called auto -aggression diseases, they can be arterial diseases, they can be hidden heart defects that patients have no idea about. However, unfortunately, even in 30, sometimes 40 people in this reason we are unable to find – explained Dr. Gramsz -Drzewiecka.
The key stage of treatment is rehabilitation. – The fact that this stroke took place, that we can deal with it, this is just the beginning of this road, because the next rehabilitation is in order – the neurologist summed up.
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Source: PAP
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