Dangerous symptom: ophthalmologist explained why double vision can be a sign of a stroke

Sudden double vision is not just visual failure or fatigue, but an alarm bell that may indicate the development of acute cerebral circulation disorders. About how to recognize a stroke by concomitant signs and why you can not ignore even short-term doubling, told Russian ophthalmologist Anton Kazantsev, writes sb.by.

The specialist stressed that with a stroke, doubling is specific: it does not disappear if a person alternately closes the right or left eye. In addition, such a violation is always accompanied by neurological symptoms. If you ask the patient to say a complex phrase, his speech is confused, and consciousness can be inhibited.

During physical examination, characteristic deviations can also be detected, the doctor draws attention to:

- For example, if you ask a person to do some exercises, and their performance will be atypical: the patient can not symmetrically hold both arms outstretched upwards - one of them begins to involuntarily fall, or when trying to stick out the tongue, he deviates towards the affected area of the brain.

Anton Kazantsev noted that the clinical picture of a stroke depends on the affected area and the scale of the focus, and in some cases the disease can proceed hidden. However, even if the double went away on its own in a few minutes or hours, a visit to the doctor can not be postponed. Such an episode may be a transient ischemic attack or early development of multiple sclerosis.

- The lack of timely treatment can lead to severe and irreversible complications, he concluded.

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