Ca Mau: 22-year-old man suffered a brain hemorrhage and stroke due to prolonged shisha smoking

A 22-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with a severe headache. A CT scan showed that the patient had a brain hemorrhage. A thorough medical history revealed that the patient had a habit of smoking shisha regularly.

Recently, doctors at People's Hospital 115 in Ho Chi Minh City saved a stroke case caused by long-term shisha smoking.

Associate Professor, Doctor, Physician Nguyen Huy Thang, Vice President of the Vietnam Stroke Association, Head of the Department of Cerebrovascular Diseases, People's Hospital 115, Ho Chi Minh City, said that a 22-year-old man from Ca Mau was admitted to the hospital with a severe headache.

CT scan images showed that the patient had a brain hemorrhage. When further examined with magnetic resonance imaging, doctors noted blood clots at many locations in the cerebral venous system.

After careful examination of the patient’s medical history, it was found that the patient had a habit of smoking shisha regularly and had been increasing over the past year. After being diagnosed and treated promptly, the doctors were able to help the patient recover completely.

According to Dr. Nguyen Huy Thang, smoking shisha increases the risk of blood clots because shisha smoke contains nicotine and carbon monoxide (CO). Nicotine stimulates the release of clotting factors, making blood more likely to clot (hypercoagulable state).

CO reduces oxygen in the blood, stresses the circulatory system and promotes blood clot formation.

According to research from the World Health Organization (WHO), a shisha smoking session (about 1 hour) causes users to inhale 9 times more CO and 1.7 times more nicotine than a cigarette.

In addition, toxins in shisha smoke such as heavy metals (lead, cadmium) and toxic organic compounds cause inflammation and damage to the venous endothelium.

Damaged blood vessel walls are ideal places for blood clots to attach and grow. Smoking hookah often takes place over a long period of time and in a sitting position, with little movement, slowing blood circulation, especially in the leg veins, creating conditions for blood clots to form.

This is an important factor in the “Virchow triangle” (hypercoagulation, vascular injury, blood stasis).

Previously, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that shisha is as harmful to the cardiovascular system as or more than cigarettes, including the risk of blood clots./.

(Vietnam News Agency/Vietnam+)

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