How to tell if you have a brain bleed?

As much as we’d like to pretend that our brains are invincible, the truth is they’re not. In fact, they’re quite fragile and can be damaged in a variety of ways. One of the most serious types of brain injury is a brain bleed or cerebral hemorrhage. This occurs when there’s bleeding in the brain tissue itself, creating pressure that can damage cells and affect function. But how do you know if it’s happening? Well buckle up Buttercup because we’ve got some tips on spotting potential brain-busters.

What Causes Brain Bleeds?

Before we start worrying excessively about having an actual bleeding brain let’s look at what causes them. There are several common factors that contribute to this type of injury including different underlying conditions such as high blood pressure, amyloid angiopathy (protein buildup), tumors, or drug abuse. Most cases actually occur spontaneously without any warning signs so topping off your morning coffee with some vodka probably won’t help you detect anything suspicious.

Symptoms

So what symptoms should you watch out for? The reality is – there isn’t just one definitive symptom responsible for identifying whether someone has experienced a brain hemorrhage but rather many signals pointing towards it. Nevertheless these symptoms could still indicate other medical issues thus always seek professional guidance/examination over crowd-sourced diagnosis choices!

Headache

Having headache woes is part and parcel with being human but sometimes headaches have sinister beginnings. Specifically aura-type headaches which might precede additional neurological dysfunction/symptoms around 30% of all haemorrhages or worst yet strike without any prompt whatsoever!

Seizures

Seizure activity after a suspected bleed would likely be traumatic spanning from convulsive movements all the way through hallucinations/euphoria – whatever world your mind takes you on make sure someone else drives!

Vision Problems

This is not necessarily referring to a sudden acquisition of x-ray vision or laser eyesight but instead experiencing one sided blurry or double vision (Although, if you do gain any additional abilities in the process please contact us immediately!)

Weakness and Numbness

If halfway through that basketball game with friends your limbs seem more ‘rubbery’ than rubber then it may be cause for concern. Additionally other issues such as feeling like half of your face lost sensation, tightness across muscles, difficulty speaking clearly etc. might signal something fishy.

Risk Factors

Like most health situations there are certain factors that increase your risk of having a brain bleed, here are some examples:

Age

As lovely as growing old sounds elderly people’s brains get more brittle akin to bones creating many opportunities for problems from everyday injury types and vascular weakening because well – this whole life thing does have an expiry date!

Substance Abuse

Ingesting substances that cause damage previously listed above such as vascular weakening.

High Blood Pressure

One pressure too high should only exist for tyres – logically blood (as amazing as it is) doesn’t fit into this equation quite so smoothly

When to Seek Medical Attention

Whether it’s related to suspected bleeding within the skull or not all aforementioned symptoms should be checked out by professionals pronto however immediate attention via emergency response can mean everything At least until telemedicine robots become standard!

911 Syndrome

When deciding whether medical attention is necessary remember FAST (an alternate acronym in addition being BRAINS). This stands for Facial weakness on one side; Arm drift/Weakness experiencing numb senses down through extremities; Speech gobbledegook highly advanced compared with typical communication attempts; Time Is A Priority always call 911 .

It’s important that you know these essential signs so you’re prepared in case anything happens. Remember rule number 1: Stay positive – unless magnetic sugar really did end up clogging all the neurotransmitter pathways – then promptly call 911.

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