The next time you find yourself getting intimate, be sure to cover your neck — a hickey might be more dangerous than you thought.
\nThat’s right, a woman in New Zealand suffered a small stroke that partially paralyzed her after receiving a hickey — or as the Kiwis call it, a “love bite” — from her eager bedfellow, reported New Zealand Medical Journal.
\nAt first, doctors struggled to find the cause of the stroke, until they discovered a small “bruise” on the woman’s neck — located very close to a major artery.
\nThe force of the hickey-giver’s suction had caused a blood clot in the artery, which then travelled to the woman’s heart, doctors told the The Press. The woman made a full recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The next time you find yourself getting intimate, be sure to cover your neck — a hickey might be more dangerous than you thought. That’s right, a woman in New Zealand suffered a small stroke that partially paralyzed her after receiving a hickey — or as the Kiwis call it, a “love bite” — from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n