Posted on 06/14/2009 5:38:02 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Blood Clots/Stroke - They Now Have a Fourth Indicator, the Tongue!
I will continue to forward this every time it comes around!
STROKE:Remember the 1st Three Letters....S.T.R.
My nurse friend sent this and encouraged me to post it and spread the word.
I agree.
If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks.
Seriously..
Please read:
STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics). She said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes.
They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening.
Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00 PM Ingrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps! Ingrid would be with us today. Some don't die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.
It only takes a minute to read this...
A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.
RECOGNIZING A STROKE
Thank God for the sense to remember the '3' steps, STR . Read and Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:
S *Ask the individual to SMILE.
T *Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently)
(I.e. It is sunny out today.)
R *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call emergency number immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
New Sign of a Stroke ------ Stick out your Tongue
NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out his tongue.. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other, that is also an indication of a stroke.
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.
I have done my part. Will you?
BUMP!
Bump
thanks
To the best of my knowledge, no one’s face is exactly symmetrical. Just that if someone you know at work, or at home, cannot smile in their usual normal way—straight, lopsided, or whatever is normal for them, it could be a sign.
As I mentioned, this is just basic first aid. Nothing substitutes for a competent medical examination and treatment.
That’s excellent!
Once a stroke starts, it progress’s pretty fast...While passing out breakfast trays in the hospital, (nurses job and you could not treat any patient once you started handling the food until all patients had their trays), one patient got quite hostile (unlike her previous behavior) and I told her I would be right back after passing trays. 5 minutes later I returned and her tray was in front of her and she hadn’t touched it..I ask her if she felt alright as she hadn’t even picked up her fork. In those 5 minutes she became aphasic, (couldn’t talk, due to L. sided stroke) Her right arm was paralyzed and then she couldn’t move any part of the r. side of her body...doctor was called stat and I was told to keep notes and sit with her until he got to the hospital...(there were no medications at that time to use for intervention). It can happen quite quickly, or for some over a period of hours, depends on what is causing the stoke, slow bleed or blood clot..NEVER IGNORE ANY WARNING SIGNS. Severe headache, dropping a glass or cup without warning, inability to talk or form intelligent words, severe dizziness, these are just some of the warnings. Also if you have a tendency to have TIA’s.
They have developed a range of drugs that can dissolve clots, but if the cause is a small bleed in the brain, not much can be done except an brain operation and that is not done on stroke victims that I know of.
Good point. This one looks OK though.
I have done my part. Will you?
Sorry you cheated. By posting this on a board you did not email.
Ronald McDonald in drag will visit you at the stroke of midnight.
I’m sorry for your dad, but I know you would agree that not all strokes are the same severity or the same nature.
I do agree with you that no doctor can guarantee 100% that he or she can always totally reverse the effects of a stroke if they can get treatment in three hours. In many cases I am sure it is possible but I would not be so overly-confident that it can ALWAYS be done. Medicine is art, science, luck, training and skill.
“A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally.”
DMSO (dimethylsulfoxide), a natural liquid that comes from trees, will reverse a stroke by dissolving the blood clot, or clots. If EMT units were allowed to give an IV injection of DMSO to a stroke patient on the way to the hospital, 95% of them would walk out of the hospital with no after-effects. This won’t happen, of course, because the FDA does not like DMSO. DMSO has no side effects, other than a garlic-like body odor on some people.
Everyone should have DMSO in their medicine cabinet. It can be taken orally, but topical application works. Vets use in rather routinely in treating animals, especially horses because it is very effective in treating sore joints and muscles.
We know personally of instances where a person who had a stroke was treated with DMSO and recovered completely.
We also know absolutely from personal experience that DMSO does dissolve clots. Several years ago my father-in-law had blood clots in his groin. He was having to give himself heparin injections every day. The doctors said it would take 6 - 9 months to get rid of the clots. We gave him DMSO to apply topically two or three times a day. The clots were medically determined to be gone in 4 weeks. A friend of mine had blood clots in his lungs and had been hospitalized because of them. He was on coumidin (warfarin) and the docs told him it would take 6 months to dissolve the clots. We gave him some DMSO for knee problems, and he was using that topically on his knees. His clots were gone in a month.
Heparin and coumidin help prevent clot formation, but these do not dissolve clots. DMSO dissolves blood clots.
Back in the early 60’s, Dr. Stanley Jacobs, MD was head of the organ transplant team at the University of Oregon Medical Center. DMSO was brought to his attention and he studied it thoroughly. He found that the best way to preserve organs between donor and recipient was immersed in DMSO. The FDA accepts this use, but does not like it otherwise. It is low cost, and can’t be patented - it would take the place of many prescription drugs for many applications, and the drug companies/FDA want it outlawed.
If it is natural, if it works, and it can’t be patented by the PharmaNazi’s, ban it - and the FDA is at their beck ‘n call.
ping
“Medicine is art, science, luck, training and skill.”
Allopathic medicine today is “do what the drug companies teach.” Science and Skill have little to do with the treatment of disease today.
Trauma is different - when it comes to putting things back in place after an accident, doctors do it well.
“Every year in the United States, 700,000 persons have a stroke; in 200,000 of these patients, the strokes are recurrent. Of the 500,000 patients with a new stroke, 14 percent will have a another stroke within one year. Approximately 270,000 persons die each year because of stroke, ranking it third in mortality behind heart disease and cancer. Stroke leads to more long-term disability than any other disease process, and it directly and indirectly costs the United States $57.9 billion a year.” This is quoted from “American Family Physician”. http://www.aafp.org/afp/20070801/382.html
Seems to me that a simple, low cost, effective treatment should be used, since one exists, to save the lives of 270,000 people, and to save that $57.9 billion a year. See my post #31 on this thread.
thanks, bfl
BTTT!
I agree with you when it comes to non-emergency medicine (drugs), but emergency medicine is different than that.
Back when I was in high school, I suffered from sports-related shoulder pain. Dad brought home some DMSO; worked great...feels really strange....you can actually feel it going deep down into your joint (as I’m sure that you know...LOL).
DMSO is somebody’s get-rich quick snake oil.
An ischemic stroke can be reversed if a clot-buster (NOT DMSO) can be used within 3 hrs of treatment - so it is important not just to get to a hospital quickly, but to document the time.
There are contraindications for its use, and my personal observations are that it is far less effective than 85% - more like 40%-50% if it can be used, and that is only about 50% of the time.
I would rate the overall chance of successful and complete reversal with medication after initiation of a stroke as being about 15-25%. Still, much better than the alternative.
For that matter, the chances of CPR in the field saving a life is less than 15% - again, much better than the alternative.
I work in an intensive care that treats, among other things, neuro care status post thrombolytics for stroke. Those clot busters are the SAME medications used for treatment of a heart attack - a clot attack in a different location. They are a vast improvement over what we used before. I’ve seen miracles with them. But - nowhere NEAR 85% of the time.
Exactly. An ischemic stroke (caused by a clot...a lot of times in people with high cholesterol) can take some time to manifest. Can be painless and the person doesn’t even realize it’s happening.
An hemorrhagic stroke (caused many times by hypertension) can go very fast...can cause death almost instantly. It’s basically an arterial blowout. It is marked by a sudden excruciating headache.
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