Chicken pox could cause strokes in children
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 | 4:54 AM ET
CBC News
There's new research indicating that chicken pox could cause strokes in children.
Doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children looked at 70 young stroke victims, youngsters who ranged in age from six months to 10 years.
22 of the 70 children had chicken pox within a year of suffering the stroke. They also had damage in the area of their brain's that is responsible for movement.
The youngsters who had suffered a stroke but did not have chicken pox suffered damage to a different region of their brains.
Researchers believe the chicken pox virus enters a nerve in the skin and then moves to an artery. It then causes inflammation that results in a clot, which causes the stroke.
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