2023-10-29 10:15:01
It strikes one person every four minutes in France: stroke affects 140,000 people each year. The day to combat this disease is September 29. This weekend in Amiens, health professionals raised awareness of the signs and behaviors that can save people.
In front of a central square in Amiens, stands in which health professionals take blood pressure, test blood sugar levels and approach passers-by. This action aims to fight once morest strokes, because 90% of them are due to preventable risk factors.
However, stroke kills 40,000 French people per year, the third cause of death. Amiens University Hospital staff and people who have had a stroke took to the streets to provide information regarding this disease on Saturday October 28, 2023, the eve of the world day once morest this pathology.
In the stands, several people of a certain age are being tested. “I have loved ones who have died of stroke, so I think regarding it as I get older“, concedes a man before taking a blood pressure test. “I’m not worried regarding myself, but I came to find out what to do when you’re a witness“, explains another, younger. And yet.
“If we arrive more than 4:30 a.m., there is a treatment that we cannot administer in the event of a heart attack”
Dr. Chantal Lamy, neurologist at Amiens University Hospital
These awareness-raising actions are also an opportunity to fight once morest this preconceived idea, because “stroke is not just a pathology of the elderly, it is completely falsesays Jérôme Lalot, neurovascular intensive care nurse at Amiens University Hospital. In our department, 40% of beds are occupied by people between 20 and 50 years old. In young and female subjects, it is generally the combination of the pill and tobacco. There are also risk factors that can be controlled to significantly reduce risk. They are always the same: high blood pressure which can be treated very well, cholesterol, diabetes which is a painless pathology, so many have it without knowing it. Then obesity, which induces other risk factors.”
Dr. Chantal Lamy, neurologist at Amiens University Hospital, is also present to remind you of the warning signs of stroke. “Sometimes a facial deformation, paralysis of an arm, a leg, difficulty speaking, articulating or understanding or an extremely sudden headache“, explains the neurologist.
She also emphasizes the importance of the first hours following symptoms appear. “You must go to a consultation as quickly as possible to initiate emergency treatments. If we arrive more than 4:30 a.m., there is a treatment that cannot be administered in the event of a heart attack.underlines Chantal Lamy. There is a treatment that can be administered within 24 hours, but it is really important to go as quickly as possible.“
A piece of advice echoed by Philippe Monnet, victim of a stroke: “I had had a transient ischemic attack two days before, because of this, I might no longer see to my left. I told myself I would go see the doctor on Monday and on Sunday morning I wake up and have a stroke.“
However, he points out that some people, like him, can recover the abilities lost during the stroke. “I was completely hemiplegic on the right, I no longer spoke and I no longer saw. They took me to the hospital, I stayed there for a week, then I started rehabilitation and look where I am, I can do everything!“
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Stroke is the leading cause of acquired disability in adults.
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To share this experience, Philippe Monnet regularly speaks at the University Hospital to encourage stroke victims to hang on to recover. Stroke is the leading cause of disability and dementia in France.
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