Today I read news about children stroke, which was happened on a 7 year-old healthy children. It just happened without any signs and so unexpected. Most of stroke cases we have heard were on adults, most of which are above forties or fifties. Slurred speech, droopy eyes, stiffness, inability to walk or even on his own, these symptoms can be described when an adult is taken to an emergency room because of stroke. Can you have any ideas when this is happened to 7 year old children? At least, I have never met this scene around of me. Because of children strokes happening much less than to adult, so the data was extremely limited. I think that researches on children stroke have a long way to go. The rate of children strokes has been growing in recent years, partly as a result of increased awareness and better reporting. It is estimated from the experts at children’s hospital of Philadelphia that the rate in children under 18 is as high as 12 per 100,000 or about 9000 cases a year. In newborns, the data is 25 per 100,000- a rate approaching that of elderly adults.
What I have read make me remind of my three times’ seizure when I was between 9-12 years old. I was always sick in my childhood. Three times of convulsion made my parents really mad at that time. I had no awareness about my sickness; eyes rolled up and just lay on the bed with my mom’s calling me. Maybe it was not much related to stroke and less dangerous than it. But you cannot imagine the anxiety and seriousness at that time when it happened in the dark night and the clinic was far away.
Today’s medical condition is much more advanced than 20 years ago. If some cases unexpected happened on our kids, try to send children to the hospital as fast as possible. Maybe it is the only helpful way to lessen the damage to our children.
