Many believe that entering coma is like falling asleep. From the outside it looks the same, although what happens inside the body is totally different. How long can a person in a coma live? Before this “dream” becomes eternal.
The story of the “sleeping prince”
If you believed that the dream of 100 years of the Sleeping Beauty it was just a story. Well, you find something wrong. It exists in real life (of course it’s a decade, not a century), but this young man has been 17 years without waking up.
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This is Prince Al Waleed bin Khaled bin Talal, who was 18 years old when he suffered a spectacular car accident in London, which led him to stay in a coma.
During the first 10 years after the event, the young man baptized as “the sleeping prince” he remained in a prestigious hospital in Riyadh. However, the resounding refusal of his parents to disconnect him from the machines that keep you aliveThey decided to move him to the family residence.
To this day, the prince is still in a coma Although his father uploaded a video to his social networks in which his son can be seen making a movement with his head.
The post was accompanied by the following comment “God who guarded his soul for more than a decade is able to bring him back to life.”
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How long can you be in a coma?
He coma is a state in which the person has lost consciousness for a long time. The causes can be diverse; head injury, stroke, brain tumor, addictions, diabetes and more, according to the Mayo Clinic Medical Institute.
On very few occasions a person remains in a coma for more than 2 to 4 weeks. However, people have been reported to remain in this state for decades. Although people who remain in a coma for a long time may develop into a brain dead persistent vegetative state.
What does a person feel when they are in a coma?
In a comatose people do not respond to painful stimuli, sometimes what we interpret as a response is actually a reflex movement. Actually it is a condition that is distinguished in that the individual remains with his eyes closed, weakened brainstem reflexessuch as pupils that do not respond to light.
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What happens in the body when you spend years in a coma?
In it coma brain it does not present any knowledge, thought or cognitive process. Over time it can degenerate into a vegetative state. The body depends on machines for its survival, therefore over time there is a general deterioration of the organism.
Al Walid, “the sleeping prince” is one of the nephews of the main fortunes of Saudi Arabia, the billionaire Al Walid.
Anyone can go into a coma, which is why it is important to know, How much of can live in this state and its effect on the body?