Any disease can be determined by the symptoms that are characteristic of it. This makes it possible to speed up the treatment of the patient, and in some cases, surgical treatment helps save lives.
One such neurologic symptom is the symptom of a sail, which in most cases can be caused by a stroke and appear after an attack.
Features of
Symptoms Sail syndrome or smoking syndrome is most common in patients who are comatose after an ischemic stroke.
Appears on the side of paralysis. At the same time, the patient's cheek is passively inflated. The patient can not control this process and does not even feel it.
The process itself is similar to pipe smoking, from where the name came from. It is worth paying attention to the fact that the rest of the muscles on the victim's face may not move, the facial muscles are paralyzed and at such moments the face simply freezes.
The cause of the symptom of the sail is also a partial lesion or complete paralysis of the facial nerve. The manifestation of this symptom in the victim makes it possible to determine the presence of the disease, and a lesion of the brain.
Symptom display on the opposite side is typical when the cortical pathway is affected. But it is also possible the appearance of the 
symptom on the affected side, this indicates peripheral paresis of the facial nerve.
Syndrome smoking pipe is one of the most common stroke in a person with stroke.
It allows not only to determine the presence of a disruption in the brain and the focus of the disease, but also provides an opportunity to monitor the effectiveness of treatment of the patient.
Diagnosis of stroke:
How is
syndrome characterized? The characteristic feature of stroke is the defeat of nerve endings and partial paralysis of the human body, the main neurologic stroke comes at first after the attack, which can be determined by a number of symptoms, one of which is paralysis of facial nerves or severe violationtheir functionality.
After an attack, the patient can not perform a number of such actions, as to inflate the cheek, open the mouth, move the eyebrows or wrinkle the forehead. But at the same time the involuntary movement of the facial muscles can be displayed, this is the sail syndrome.
The person after a stroke
The syndrome of a smoking pipe also is similar to a neurological disease. But there is some peculiarity, so neuritis and other lesions of the facial nerve are also characterized by involuntary movements of the muscles, but they are displayed from two sides. And also there is a mimicry on the face, and not a fixed face, as in a stroke.
Paralysis of the facial nerves can manifest itself in a number of diseases, and at home it is not possible to determine the cause and even more so to choose a method of treatment. But these symptoms are a serious reason for urgently calling an ambulance and giving the patient emergency care.
