Stroke Symptoms

Mom’s Life

Tim HaiBunda | Haibunda

Wednesday, 10 Jan 2024 16:46 IWST

Jakarta –

Anyone can experience a stroke, Mother. Knowing how to spot the signs of a stroke, especially a mild one, is crucial to preventing serious complications.

A mild stroke is also known as a mini stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA). Reported on the Indonesian Ministry of Health’s website, the main cause of mild strokes is blockage of the blood vessels that supply blood to the brain. This blockage is caused by plaque or air clots in the arteries which cause brain function to be disrupted and trigger signs of a mild stroke.

You need to know, in cases of mild stroke, the blockage is only temporary and blood flow will return to normal. This also makes the signs of a mild stroke slightly different from a stroke.

In mild strokes, symptoms usually last for a few minutes, and will disappear by themselves in a matter of hours. So it is not surprising that the signs of a mild stroke are often not realized by sufferers.

Reported UK NHS, Mild strokes can be caused by several risk factors, such as:

• Smoking or excessive alcohol consumption
• High blood pressure (hypertension)
• Obesity
• High cholesterol levels
• Having a type of irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation
• Have diabetes
• Over 55 years old

The easiest way to see signs of a mild stroke is through the FAST test. This test consists of several indicators, namely:

• Face: one side of the face droops and makes it difficult for sufferers to smile and move their eyelids.
• Arms: arms are weak or paralyzed.
• Speech: slurred or incoherent speech.
• Time: immediately contact medical personnel so that treatment can be carried out immediately.

Apart from observing changes through the FAST test, mothers can also recognize several other signs of mild stroke. What are the signs?

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Jakarta –

Stroke is often seen as a terrible scourge. In Indonesia, stroke is one of the diseases that causes the most deaths.

Not only that, strokes often come suddenly. A stroke that is not treated immediately can cause permanent damage to the brain and even cause death.

Neurology specialist Dr Mohammad Kurniawan, SpS(K), FICA, MSc, said stroke is an emergency caused by problems with the blood vessels to the brain. Not only in Indonesia, stroke is also considered a terrible scourge for the world community.

“Every 3 seconds there is 1 new stroke patient in the world. The growth is approximately 12.2 million new stroke cases per year in the world,” he said in an online press conference, Friday (27/10/2023).

Dr. Mohammad said a stroke occurs when symptoms of a nervous breakdown appear. The symptoms or characteristics of stroke include:

Paralysis of one half of the limbs, half-sided sensibility disorder, sudden change in mental status, aphasia, which is a language disorder that makes it difficult for a person to communicate, drooping face, impaired speech, visual impairment, diplopia

In line with that, quoted from the Mayo Clinic, stroke can also cause symptoms such as:

Sudden changes in behavior, especially increased agitation Convulsions Nausea or vomiting

Immediate Go to Hospital Slogan

Dr. Mohammad added that the characteristics of a stroke can be easily remembered through the slogan ‘SeGeRa Ke RS’.

“The SeGeRa Go to Hospital slogan is an abbreviation of the symptoms and signs of stroke that we can remember together and educate our colleagues,” he said.

The slogans include:

Asymmetrical smile (turned to one side, choking, difficulty swallowing drinking water suddenly. Movement of half of the body weakens suddenly Slurred speech/suddenly unable to speak/can’t understand words/speech doesn’t connectNumber or numbness, or tingling in half body Myopic vision blurred in one eye, occurs suddenly Severe headache that appears suddenly and has never been felt before Impaired balance function, such as feeling spinning, movements that are difficult to coordinate (tremors, shaking, staggering)

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