Watch out, Parasites Can Cause Stroke

Stroke, which occurs more often in people with high blood pressure, it can also occur due to parasitic infection Trypanozoma cruzi. This bacterium is a major cause chagas disease. People who are infected have a risk of stroke, especially if they suffer from complications of heart and blood clotting.

Actually chagas disease is more prevalent in Latin American countries. However, the migration of millions of people across the country led to the spread of this disease occurs in many countries. A person can be infected with the disease when bitten by an infected insect cruzi parasites.

Most people do not realize they are infected so that would unknowingly spread the infection. In a study conducted Dr.Francisco Javier Carod-Artal from Spain known chagas half the patients who had no previous stroke diagnosed chagas infected.

According to Ahmed Sharlin from the Stroke Association, chagas disease can trigger a variety of cardiac disorders that eventually lead to stroke. "The heart became weak and unable to pump blood strongly. In the end will be a blood clot if the clot is carried to the brain and consequently brain is clogged artery stroke," he explained.

That's why experts recommend the doctors from endemic countries to conduct screening chagas disease in stroke patients.