Symptoms of a mild stroke

Stroke is a group of diseases characterized by local neurological loss caused by impaired blood circulation in the brain. It mainly manifests itself in the elderly, with mild stroke and many recurrences. Severe stroke can cause limb paralysis, inability to stand and walk, etc. The symptoms of mild stroke are somewhat different from those of stroke. Let us take a look at the symptoms of mild stroke.

Because strokes mostly occur in the elderly, elderly people over a certain age must focus on prevention. If they find themselves with mild stroke symptoms, they need to pay attention and actively receive comprehensive examinations and treatment.

(1) Headache and dizziness, which may be accompanied by spinning vision, nausea, and vomiting. The form and feeling of the headache are different from the past, the severity increases and becomes persistent, and sometimes it is fixed in a certain part of the body. This is a manifestation of blood pressure fluctuations or cerebral vasospasm, and is often a precursor to hemorrhagic stroke.

(2) Various movement disorders: such as weakness on one side of the limbs, or difficulty in movement, unstable holding of objects, sometimes accompanied by muscle spasms. Although there is no roadblock when walking and the consciousness is clear, the person may suddenly fall to the ground, or want to walk in the middle of the road, but involuntarily lean to the side of the road and become unstable; suddenly slurred speech; difficulty swallowing, choking and coughing; crooked mouth and drooling. There is another symptom called "one and a half syndrome", which is also a common symptom in the early stages of cerebral stroke. It is characterized by the inability of one eyeball to move up and down or to rotate left and right, and the other eyeball cannot rotate in other directions except to move outward. The mechanism is that the extraocular muscles of one and a half eyes cannot move.

(3) Sensory impairment: numbness of the lips, face, tongue, limbs, ear canal, hearing loss, transient blurred vision or blindness.

(4) The individual suddenly changes his/her normal personality, behavior, and intelligence, such as becoming withdrawn and taciturn, depressed and anxious, or irritable and talkative, losing normal comprehension and judgment, laughing or crying for no reason, and having difficulty controlling himself/herself. Sometimes, when he/she suddenly sees an acquaintance and knows who he/she is, he/she cannot call out his/her name, or even the name of daily necessities, and feels drowsy all day long. The latter three manifestations can be transient, recurrent, or gradually worsen, and are often precursors to ischemic stroke.

The above are some symptoms of mild stroke. If you find that the elderly in your family also have such problems in life, then you need to pay attention to it, because this may be an early manifestation of stroke. You must actively take countermeasures to reduce the possibility of stroke to the lowest point.