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UK: Boy 7, may never fully recover after suffering stroke brought on by chickenpox

Shiloh

Shiloh

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Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ought-chickenpox-suffered-months-earlier.html

Boy, 7, may never fully recover after suffering stroke brought on by chickenpox he had NINE MONTHS earlier

Virus had caused Alex Roantree-Roesch's arteries to harden
He now has splint on leg and has lost dexterity in hand
Speech remains slurred and doctors do not know if he will fully recover

By Emma Reynolds
PUBLISHED: 11:44 GMT, 8 June 2012 | UPDATED: 11:44 GMT, 8 June 2012

A seven-year-old boy collapsed from a stroke brought on by the chickenpox he had nine months earlier.

Alex Roantree-Roesch was found unconscious by his horrified father Mike in the living room of their home in Gosport, Hampshire.

The youngster was taken to hospital and told he had suffered a stroke, and that it had been triggered by the virus, which shrunk his arteries...
 
Re: UK: Boy 7, may never fully recover after suffering stroke brought on by chickenpox

Here's another case of a child believed to have suffered a stroke:

http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk...recovery-after-stroke-at-age-of-two-1-4628275

Sheffield girl?s ?miracle? recovery after stroke at age of two
Published on Friday 8 June 2012 13:00

A SHEFFIELD mother will be running in aid of the Children?s Hospital in September to show her gratitude after her daughter made a ?miracle? recovery from a stroke at the age of two.

Gill Wood believes Erin had the stroke as a complication of chicken pox...
 
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