This is truly terrifying.
A teenager has died after a hickey from his girlfriend caused a blood clot that eventuated in a fatal stroke.
Paramedics were called to the home of Mexico City teen Julio Macias Gonzalez, 17, after he started convulsing at the dinner table; he was treated at the scene but couldn’t be saved.
It’s believed his 24-year-old girlfriend gave him a love bite earlier that evening, which triggered the clot that travelled to his brain and caused the stroke.
Gonzalez’s death comes after what doctors thought to be the only documented case of a hickey-related stroke occurred in New Zealand.
A 44-year-old Maori woman was left with a paralysed left arm, reported doctors in a case study published in the New Zealand Medical Journal last year, after an overzealous hickey by her partner.
Doctors couldn’t work out what triggered the minor stroke until they pinpointed a clot in an artery on the right side of her neck, directly underneath an area of skin that was still bruised from the love bite.
Of course, blood clots and strokes are much less common a side effect of hickey-receiving than unsightly bruises and a bit of swelling – but it pays to be conscious of how hard you’re getting bit.
Source: The Sun.
Photo: Tumblr / FreddyGrit.
