What are the sequelae of stroke?

Stroke can be said to be a relatively serious disease, and its sequelae cannot be ignored. Therefore, when patients suffer from symptoms of stroke, they must be carefully cared for, not be lax, strengthen physical activities, and provide more nutrition in the diet. Since there are sequelae, we naturally need to take better care of the patient after recovery from a stroke and pay attention to whether there are any symptoms of sequelae in his daily life.

When talking about stroke, most people's first impression is that it is difficult to recover and very serious, and may even cause paralysis. But what people don’t know is that the sequelae of a stroke are also a heavy blow. Next, let’s take a look at the symptoms of stroke sequelae.

Common sequelae of stroke are as follows:

1. Numbness: The affected limbs, especially the extremities, such as fingers or toes, or the cheek skin on the hemiplegic side have a crawling sensation, a tingling sensation, or a slow response to stimulation. Numbness is often related to weather changes. The numbness is particularly obvious when the weather changes suddenly, when it is hot and humid, before and after rain, or when the weather is cold.

2. Crooked mouth and slanted eyes: paralysis of the facial muscles below the eye bag on one side. The symptoms include shallowing of the nasolabial groove, drooping corners of the mouth, and exposed teeth. When puffing the cheeks and whistling, the corners of the mouth tilt toward the healthy side and drool, which is more obvious when talking.

3. Central paralysis: central paralysis. Due to damage to the upper motor neurons, voluntary movements are weakened or absent, and the main clinical manifestations are increased muscle tone, hyperreflexia of the tendons, pathological reflexes, and spastic paralysis.

4. Peripheral paralysis: Peripheral paralysis is clinically manifested as decreased muscle tone, weakened or absent reflexes, accompanied by muscle atrophy, but no pathological reflexes.

Therefore, if a patient shows signs of stroke, he or she should go to the hospital for examination and receive drug treatment immediately. In addition, in daily life, we should also pay attention to the diet therapy of stroke sequelae in order to speed up the pace of alleviating the disease. At the same time, you should relax and not be too tense. Being impatient for success will bring the opposite effect.