STROKE

STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Steps














STR OKE IDENTIFICATION:

During a party, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00pm , Ingrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the party. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some ?don't die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead. It only takes a minute to read this...

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke... totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.

RECOGNIZING A STR OKE

Thank God for the sense to remember the "3" steps, STR! . Read and Learn!

Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke. Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:

S *Ask the individual to SMILE .
T *Ask the person to TALK , to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently: It is sunny out today.)

R *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS .

{NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out their tongue... if the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other that is also an indication of a stroke}


If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call emergency services immediately and describe the symptoms. This is URGENT

New diabetes drug from lizard

NEW DELHI: The spit of a giant and poisonous lizard will now help control diabetes.

Compounds in the saliva of the endangered and carnivorous Gila Monster, which spends

up to four months digesting its food, have been copied to develop a ground-breaking

injection to treat type 2 diabetes. The drug, which helps the body produce the right

amount of insulin at the right time, was recently approved by India's drug controller

general to help diabetics regulate blood sugar levels after a meal. It will be launched in the

country on October 6. Gila Monsters, native of North America and Mexico, have a

hormone called Exendin-4 in their salivary glands, which increases the production of

insulin when blood sugar levels rise after a large meal. Scientists found that Exendin-4

was similar to a hormone in the human digestive tract called GLP-1 and lasted much

longer. The drug is a synthetic replica of Exendin-4. According to Dr Anoop Misra,

director of the department of diabetes and metabolism, Fortis Hospitals, the drug is not a

first line treatment for type 2 diabetes but has to be used along with known drugs like

Metformin and Sulfonylurea. Interestingly, the new drug, which makes the patient feel

less hungry and therefore eat less, helps reduce body weight as against the commonly

used drugs like Sulfonylurea and insulin that cause weight gain. He said: "The new drug

acts through GLP 1, a human hormone with multiple actions. It acts on the pancreas to

increase insulin production and works on the intestine to decrease its movements,

thereby decreasing glucose absorption and causing a decrease in apetite." Absolving

fears of drug abuse, especially by obese people trying to lose weight, Misra said the new

drug, which improves blood sugar control by mimicking the action of the hormone

incretin, delays the movement of food from the stomach into the small intestine. As a

result, people taking the drug feel full faster and longer, so they eat less.