cerebral stroke

The term cerebrovascular accident (stroke) is applied to events of severe acute cerebrovascular disease. Resulting in both physical and mental paralysis. WHO defines stroke as' rapidly developed clinical signs of focal disturbance of cerebral function, lasting more than 24 hours or resulting in death, with no other apparent cause of vascular origin. "

Causes and symptoms

The interruption of brain function may be due to three morphological abnormalities, ie, stenosis, occlusion or rupture of arteries.

Cerebral dysfunction manifested with different symptoms and neurological signs that are related to the scope and location of the area and its causes. These include coma, hemiplegia, paraplegia, monoplegia, more paralysis, slurred speech, paresis of the nerve, sensory, etc., which is the primary somato hemiplegic neurological disorders in about 90 percent of patients.

Line includes a number of syndromes with different etiologies, epidemiology, prognosis and treatment. These include subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis or embolism, and before occlusion of cerebral arteries, transient cerebral ischemia (more than 24 hours).

Risk Factors

Race does not occur at random, but risk factors like hypertension, cardiac abnormalities, diabetes, high blood lipids, obesity, smoking, blood coagulation and viscosity, and then continue several years.

Diet

The diet should be well balanced, particularly the B vitamins and vitamin C, because of the need for the health of blood vessels. Vitamin E helps prevent blood clots, reducing the need for oxygen. Reduce the weight more sensible diet is extremely important. Whole grains, fruits, vegetables, protein and supplements must be emphasized. All nutrients must meet the demands of stress and lower blood cholesterol

Teens and Blood cancers

No doubt that blood diseases are very common in children and teens to the degree that leukemia is considered the number one cancer in children and lymphoma is also very common but the good news is that they are of the most easy managed and treated cancers with very high survival rate so let's read more about them.

Leukemia

Leukemia is one of the most common childhood cancers. It occurs when large numbers of abnormal white blood cells called leukemic blasts fill the bone marrow and sometimes enter the bloodstream.

Because these abnormal blood cells are defective, they don't help protect the body against infection the way normal white blood cells do. And because they grow uncontrollably, they take over the bone marrow and interfere with the body's production of other important types of cells in the bloodstream, like red blood cells (which carry oxygen) and platelets (which help blood to clot).

Leukemia causes problems like bleeding, anemia (low numbers of red blood cells), bone pain, and infections. It can also spread to other places like the lymph nodes, liver, spleen, brain, and the testicles in males.

The types of leukemia most likely to occur in teens are acute lymphocytic (pronounced: lim-fuh-sih-tik) leukemia (ALL) and acute myelogenous (pronounced: my-uh-ladj-uh-nus) leukemia (AML).

Virtually all people with ALL and AML are treated with chemotherapy, and some also receive stem cell transplants, in which they are given new stem cells from another person. Bone marrow transplants are a common form of stem cell transplantation. Some people also receive radiation. The length of treatment and types of medicine given will vary depending on the type of leukemia.

The chances for a cure are very good with certain kinds of leukemia. With treatment, most patients with ALL and many patients with AML are free of the disease without recurrence.

Lymphoma

Lymphoma refers to cancer that develops in the lymphatic system, which includes the lymph nodes, thymus, spleen, adenoids, tonsils, and bone marrow. The lymph system functions in the body by fighting off germs that cause infection and illness. Most teens with lymphoma have either Hodgkin's disease or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Hodgkin's disease usually occurs in adolescents and young adults. It can show up in lymph nodes in the neck, armpits, chest, or other places. The lymph nodes become enlarged but are usually not painful. Hodgkin's disease is identified by large, unusual cells called Reed-Sternberg cells that are detected under a microscope after a biopsy, a procedure in which a doctor removes a small tissue sample to examine it for cancer cells. Chemotherapy and often radiation are used to treat Hodgkin's disease.

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is similar to leukemia (ALL) because both involve malignant lymphocytes (pronounced: lim-fuh-sytes), white blood cells found in lymph nodes, and because many of the symptoms of these diseases are the same. NHL is usually treated with chemotherapy.

Teens with Hodgkin's disease or NHL who have completed their treatment have an excellent chance for cure.