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Reason For Recurrent Paralysis Attack After Long Periods Of Time?

My mother recently had a paralysis attack. This is her second paralysis attack. The first time she had when she was 13 and since then her right side half body is paralyzed. She could still do her work but her right hand and leg did not work. Now she had another attack after around 50 years. She is 65 now. Can you please help me understand why it happened? What can we do to help her recover from this attack and make sure that it doesn t happen again going ahead?
posted on Sat, 22 Feb 2014
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Hi,

Thank you for posting your query.

Your mother needs to be investigated to find out the reason for paralysis. A brain scan such as MRI would confirm the location and type of blood clot in the brain.

In addition, she should be screened for risk factors such as high BP, sugar, cholesterol, homocysteine, etc.

If we treat her risk factors and use aspirin, we can prevent the recurrence of brain stroke.

I hope my reply has helped you.

I would be pleased to answer, if you have any follow up queries or if you require any further information.
     
Best wishes,
Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology)
Senior Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad,
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Reason For Recurrent Paralysis Attack After Long Periods Of Time?

Hi, Thank you for posting your query. Your mother needs to be investigated to find out the reason for paralysis. A brain scan such as MRI would confirm the location and type of blood clot in the brain. In addition, she should be screened for risk factors such as high BP, sugar, cholesterol, homocysteine, etc. If we treat her risk factors and use aspirin, we can prevent the recurrence of brain stroke. I hope my reply has helped you. I would be pleased to answer, if you have any follow up queries or if you require any further information. Best wishes, Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology) Senior Consultant Neurologist Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, For DIRECT QUERY to me: http://bit.ly/Dr-Sudhir-kumar My blog: http://bestneurodoctor.blogspot.com/