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Cerebral stroke

It is a brain disease that occurs suddenly. Its apparent symptoms include an inability to move the body voluntarily, and a loss of sensation that may amount to loss of consciousness.

The Arabs call it a stroke, especially a cerebral stroke. It is a word that expresses illness. It is silence that comes after noise.

The Franks call it a stroke, like hitting a man on the head with a stick and causing him to lose consciousness. It is also an expressive word.

The medical name for this disease is Apoplexia, which is a name given to it in the past by the first Greek physician Hippocrates, which means blow or blow, and from it the Franks took the colloquial name for this disease.

- The causes of disease ;

In people with sick hearts, it may happen that the blood clots in one of the heart’s reservoirs or above one of its valves, and then carries this clot (or blood as they sometimes call it, or clot, which is an Arabization of the English word clot), and then carries this clot through the blood stream, even if it reaches the brain. It seemed to her that it would settle in one of his blood vessels, blocking it, and as a result, the blood would be blocked and would not reach the part of the brain that this blood vessel was supplying with food and oxygen, and thus the work of this part of the brain would be disrupted. All functions in the body that originate from this part of the brain are disrupted.

Embolism occurs suddenly, and all the symptoms of a stroke appear immediately.

This is one of the reasons why stroke occurs.

The elderly, where disease has spread in the blood vessels and where blood circulation has weakened, suffer from a type of stroke that occurs more gradually. This occurs due to a blood clot that occurs within the blood vessel in the brain itself, causing the vessel to become thrombosis.

These cases of the disease are usually easier and more hopeful of recovery than those strokes that occur due to bleeding in the brain resulting from the rupture of a blood vessel in it.

The most dangerous and common form of stroke is the one that occurs due to a rupture of a blood vessel in the brain. Many of those who write about modern medicine limit the meaning of the term “apoplexia” to that stroke caused by a burst artery in the brain.

The blood vessels in the brain undergo what happens to the blood vessels in the rest of the body, and as a result they undergo changes that spoil them after middle age. These are changes that affect small vessels as well as large ones, making them easily broken, and reducing their fulfillment of nourishing the brain. This means that the brain substance adjacent to these vessels becomes corrupted and becomes soft. This condition returns to the vessels themselves, as they lose the rigidity that supported them around them, so they tend here and there to expand, expand, and swell (Aneurism), which ultimately means blood coming out of the vessel.
And its melting in the brain.

This bleeding may be small in amount, or it may be in a place in the brain that does not cause major disturbance. But if the bleeding is due to the bursting of a large blood vessel, and especially if the bleeding blood seeps into important structures found in

(When corruption affects the arteries of the brain, they become prepared for one of two things: either because they are blocked by a blood clot like the one you see in the figure, or they are torn and blood flows from them into the brain. In both cases, the part of the brain, which was irrigated by the artery, loses its supply of blood, and then restlessness occurs. Cerebral palsy, which usually results in paralysis of the other half of the body corresponding to the half of the brain in which the blockage or bleeding occurred.

At the base of the brain, a stroke occurred, and death may follow after a short period. But it may also happen that the leaking blood is absorbed by the brain, or it surrounds it with a capsule that it makes from the brain material that surrounds it exclusively to cause damage to it, and then the condition does not get worse. And the patient gets sick because of that. But even with this, some paralysis often remains, which was a promise. The nutrition of this side of the brain may be damaged as a result to such an extent that the return of the explosion and bleeding becomes possible with some recovery... and of course hope for life decreases with the recurrence of these injuries.

- Disease of advanced age;

This disease can be considered a disease of advanced age, and this is how Hippocrates considered it, saying that it usually occurs between the ages of forty and sixty. Modern medicine believed what Hippocrates said more than 13 centuries ago. However, it may occur at any age.
It occurs more frequently in men than in women.

- The direct cause of this disease;

There is no harm in saying that the direct cause of this disease is, in general, anything that tends to cause blood pressure in the brain to rise. For example, we cite exaggeration in food and drink, excessive effort exerted by the body or mind, violent emotion, even bending over, a room that has become too warm, and exposure to the heat of the sun - all of these may cause an explosion. The stroke.

We have often seen this disease come to the elderly while they are exerting hard effort, or while they are running to catch a train that has arrived, or even while they are suffering in the rest home due to severe constipation.

- Symptoms of stroke;

Symptoms vary depending on the severity of the disease, the cause,
And its extent, as well as its aftermath, but we can describe the symptoms of a clear and specific injury, so we say that the injury usually comes to the patient suddenly or so, and the patient immediately loses consciousness and all voluntary movement. He lies as if he is deeply asleep, his face is red, his heartbeat is slow, his breathing is snoring, and his pupils are not affected by light and are narrowed.

Paralysis usually involves one side, and is evidenced by raising the arm, for example, while the patient is unconscious. It then falls if the carrier leaves it, just as a stone falls.

During this loss of sensation, death may occur after a few hours, or the patient may gradually return to consciousness, and in this case the paralyzed side remains hemiplegia. Sometimes it is noted that some mental faculties have been damaged, as evidence of damage to the brain itself.

But injury may occur and the patient does not lose consciousness. Paralysis affecting half the body is the entire symptom. Sometimes, when bleeding occurs in the brain gradually, symptoms appear gradually, even lasting several hours (Ingravescent apoplexy).

The most dangerous time for a stroke is the two or three days following the injury, and the most dangerous is in these first twenty-four hours. During this period, the bleeding may increase, or it may return after it had stopped, due to moving the patient or disturbing him in a way that is rejected by wisdom. Or because it was transported a long distance. The danger remains for three weeks or so.

- treatment ;

While the patient is unconscious, nothing can be done except nursing and care. Then complete stillness with the body lying down, and the head raised on a pillow that is not high. Warmth is necessary for the surface of the body, and coldness is beneficial for the head.

All of this is necessary even if the patient returns to consciousness.

As for the rest of the treatment, it is up to the doctor, who prescribes it according to the case if he is present. He must be summoned urgently.