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[|Human|] My aunty has devolped sudden loos of speech, and weakness of one arm...she was admitted...in ICU..there was no history of accident also..the doctor said she had develpoed stroke...i want to know what is stroke ? will it come ? Is there any cure ?
[|AI|]  Hi, thanks for writing to Chat Doctor, stroke by definition is loss of some localized part of brain due to ischemia (lack of blood into brain cells)or hemorrhage (leakage of blood from the brain arteries or vessels thus blood could not reach up to brain cells).common factors that can develop into stroke are commonly - high BP, high lipids (cholesterol levels), smoking, tobacco chewing etc. Features that can be seen in the patient are hemiparesis (sudden weakness or loss of function of half side of the body) or sometimes only one arm or leg. Loss of sensation on that part (unable to feel touch and hot or cold)there may be involvement of speech, vision, memory, and face paralysis also. If the symptoms appear and fortunately return to almost normal within 24 hours then it is called a transient ischemic attack ...TIA (this literally means temporary loss of blood to brain cells).but if the symptoms stay for more than 24 hours and doesn't improve it is a STROKE. In both cases of TIA & Stroke prompt treatment is required to lessen the impact on brain cells. In the treatment of STROKE a multidisciplinary approach is required....this means that the patient must be treated by a no. of specialist like neurologist, neurosurgeon, physical therapist, speech therapist, ophthalmologist, occupational therapist, nursing care etc. The recovery of patient will definitely depend on the extent of brain involvement and other associated features age of patient, any other medical problem.a multifaceted treatment can bring the patient back to normal life. The family and the caregiver should be extremely patient, supportive, and caring towards the patient and should trust the doctors treating the patient.I would also like to mention here after reading the comments below that heat stroke is entirely different from this stroke. And aging is not a cause of stroke, it just makes few individuals more prone to get stroke.I hope this helps