By Sara G. Miller, Staff
Writer | August 26, 2016 07:21am ET
People's reactions to getting stung
by a bee or wasp can range from a feeling bit of pain to a suffering a deadly
allergy reaction — and now a recent report of one man's
case highlights a particularly rare complication of a sting: having a
stroke.
The 44-year-old Ohio man was
working at a construction site when he was stung by
a wasp on his leg, according to the report. Initially, the man
developed a rash and hives. But about an hour later, the man displayed several
telltale signs of a stroke — difficulty speaking, paralysis on one side of his
body and a facial "droop" — and was rushed to the hospital.
A stroke occurs when a part of a
person's brain is starved of blood, typically because of a blood clot or a
leaky blood vessel.
Dr. Michael DeGeorgia, who
treated the man, told Live Science that he had never before seen a case
where a stroke was
caused by a wasp sting. DeGeorgia is the director of the Neurocritical Care
Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Ohio.
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