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When you find out that a loved one has had a stroke, do not give the sick person any medicine, food or drink, call 115 and wait for help.
Associate Professor Mai Duy Ton, Director of the Stroke Center at Bach Mai Hospital, recommends 3 absolute things not to do with stroke patients.
Don’t give sick people medicine, including aspirin. This medicine is a blood thinner, but should not be given to patients on aspirin or other medications. A blood clot is just one of the many causes of stroke. A stroke can also be caused by a ruptured blood vessel in the brain. Therefore, when it is not known what type of stroke your loved one has, it is absolutely forbidden to give him any medication.
Do not give the patient anything to eat or drink. Avoid giving food or water to someone with a stroke. This is because stroke patients are often not alert and may have swallowing disorders. Therefore, feeding or drinking the patient can lead to suffocation, suffocation, respiratory failure, and consequently pneumonia.
Do not let the sick person travel alone to the hospital. Symptoms of a stroke are difficult to recognize in the first place. The person may notice that something is wrong, but does not suspect a stroke. If you judge that the patient is suffering from a stroke, absolutely do not allow the patient to travel alone to the hospital, call 115 and wait for help.
Dr. Ton said that stroke can be life-threatening and lead to permanent disability. When detecting that a loved one has signs of a stroke, it is necessary to act quickly to get to the hospital during the golden hour. The golden time to use fibrinolytics is 4 to 5 hours from the start. The opportunity to intervene to remove blood clots in just the first 6-8 hours.
Brain cells will die within minutes without a supply of blood or oxygen. In the case of ischemic stroke, when a large blood vessel in the brain is blocked, 32,000 brain cells die every second and 1.9 million brain cells die every minute and every hour. The number of dead brain cells corresponding to 3.6 years of life expectancy for normal people.
“The sooner you go to the hospital, the higher the treatment success rate,” said Dr. Ton.
Every year Vietnam has around 230,000 new cases of stroke, of which almost 50% of all strokes will die and 90% will leave after-effects because most stroke patients arrive at the hospital after the golden hour. .
The rate of stroke patients arriving at the hospital before 6 am averages around 3.5%, especially in large hospitals like Bach Mai, this rate is 5-7%.
Symptoms to immediately think of a stroke are distorted mouth on one side, lisp, dumbness, weakness or numbness of the limbs on one side, sudden loss of vision in one or two eyes …