A Mexican teen has suffered a stroke, apparently brought on after his girlfriend gave him a love bite. It is believed that the hickey caused a blood clot which traveled to his brain.
17-year-old Julio Macias Gonzale, from Mexico City, started having convulsions at the dinner table with his family after spending an evening with his girlfriend.
Paramedics were called to the scene but they were unable to resuscitate the boy.
The boy’s parents blame Julio’s 24-year-old girlfriend for his death. The woman has absconded since his passing.
Five years ago, a 44-year-old woman was left seriously injured after a similar incident.
The woman was left partially paralysed after a stroke. The woman lost the use of her arm very shortly after receiving a hickey, but Doctors in New Zealand could not figure out a cause. When they noticed a fading bruise on the woman’s neck they discovered an artery had been damaged underneath.
In this incidence, a blood clot had formed and traveled to the woman’s heart
According to The Mirror, the New Zealand woman was treated with warfarin, an anti-coagulant, which resulted in the clot disappearing almost entirely within a week.
Her doctor at the time, Teddy Wu said:
“To my knowledge, it’s the first time someone has been hospitalised by a hickey.”
