PAY ATTENTION TO EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF A STROKE:
Case Study: An everyday BBQ at a friends house, where lady stumbles and falls. Someone offers to call an ambulance, but she convinces everyone that she is fine and that it is her new shoe’s that made her fall. She seems a little pale, so her husband helps to brush off her clothes and pick a new plate of food for her. Later, her husband called later to say he had taken his wife to the hospital and that she had died at 11 pm !
She had suffered a stroke
A neurologist says a person who gets a stroke should be treated within 3 hours to be saved this means that we must all be aware of whether a person gets a stroke!
A quick test anyone can do to establish if a person is suffering a stroke is:
- Ask the person to laugh – They won’t be able to do this
- Ask the person to say the alphabet or complete a sentence – They will struggle
- Ask the person to raise both arms – It is not quite as it should be
- Ask the person to stick out their tongue – It will roll and squirm in their mouth
If we share these tips with as many people, we could save more lives – and possibly our own!
I read these tips on a friends status update on facebook, I believe everyone can benefit from knowing this so I invite you to copy the tips and share them with your family and friends!
It could happen to anyone! Stay Safe! Look after each other!
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