Saturday, October 13, 2012

How To Identify Stroke Easy Way

Today Stroke is attacking people everywhere anywhere at all age. Not only adult, stroke attack younger too. It is important to understand how to identify people if attacked by stroke.

There are simple understandable method to identify stroke. STR (Smile, Talk, Raise hands).

Smile



Ask him/her to smile. If s/he kan smile properly, then most probably s/he is not getting stroke. But if s/he's smiling and the smile is not symmetric, up or down on the left/right side, you should pay more attention and might suspicious of it.



Talk
Ask her/him to talk some simple words. such "I can see". "I love you" etc




Raise Hands
Ask her/him to raise her/his hands.





If the patient can't do one of those three. Go call an ambulance and explain the condition to the nurse.

This is just a simple method, but it might be useful for you someday if the worst thing happened to the people around you.

Additional Method: Ask the person to stick out its tongue. If the tongue is crooked, or if the tongue is lolled to one side or another, these are signs of a stroke.

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