Symptoms of Stroke



Cerebral stroke, or stroke, can be divided into ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke. Its symptoms are related to the location of the lesion, the size of the lesion and other reasons, and can be manifested as dizziness, headache, slurred speech, hemiparesis, and so on.

1. General symptoms: dizziness, feeling of drowsiness in the head, or severe headache, nausea, vomiting and so on.

2. Consciousness state: If the patient’s lesion is small, he/she is generally conscious, while larger lesions may appear drowsiness, lethargy, coma and so on.

3. Speech impairment: patients may show unclear speech, incoherent speech, inability to speak and so on.

4. Cranial nerve damage: patients may manifest vision loss, hearing loss, eye movement disorder, chewing difficulty, choking on drinking water.

5. Limb symptoms: including hemiparesis, hemiplegia. The limbs on the opposite side of the patient’s lesion often show numbness, weakness, dyskinesia and myasthenia.

After the onset of this disease, we should go to the hospital in time to improve the cranial CT or MRI and other examinations to clarify the cause of the disease and timely treatment.