That sucks.
A hickey may have killed a Mexico City teen, who suffered a fatal
stroke not long after his girlfriend gave him the kiss of death.
Julio Macias Gonzalez, 17, went into convulsions and died while having dinner with his family, according to Mexican news site Hoyestado.com. His 24-year-old make-out partner, who has not been identified, is reportedly in hiding.
If you’ve never necked before, hickeys are caused when a someone sucks
on or aggressively kisses someone’s skin hard enough to break the blood
vessels located beneath the surface of the skin. According to local
media reports, doctors believe that the suction which forms the
tell-tale mark also created a blood clot that traveled to the young
man’s brain and caused the massive stroke.
A similar love bite famously caused a 44-year-old New Zealand woman
to lose movement in her left arm in 2010. Emergency responders couldn’t
figure out what was causing her stroke — until they noticed a hickey on
the right side of her neck. They concluded that the aggressive kissing
session had damaged a major artery and formed a blood clot that traveled
to her heart and caused a minor stroke.
“To my knowledge, it’s the first time someone has been hospitalized by a
hickey,” wrote Dr. Teddy Wu, the doctor who treated her, in the New
Zealand Medical Journal.
But not the last. In 2014, a 35-year-old Dutch woman suffered an embolic stroke from a hickey she’d received 12 hours before on the left side of her neck.
It’s unlikely that your next love bite is going to send you to the
hospital. After all, these three extreme examples are the only widely
reported strokes from heavy necking. But you can play it safe by
directing your paramour to nibble you away from major arteries — like
the ones in your neck — and treating any blossoming bruises with ice.
Or, now you’ve got a great excuse to discourage your partner from leaving these annoying marks in the first place.
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