Living with Hughes Syndrome
by Triona Holden
Hughes syndrome ('sticky blood') is a common if little-known condition in which blood is prone to thickening and clotting. The range of serious health problems this can cause is alarming: recurrent miscarriage, stroke, deep vein thrombosis ('economy class syndrome'). Fatigue, migraine, joint pain, speech difficulties and memory loss may also be consequences – symptoms which can be mistaken for multiple sclerosis or early onset Alzheimer's disease.
If you think you may be affected Living with Hughes Syndrome will explain the simple diagnostic test that is used to identify the condition and the measures that can be taken to control it, sometimes as straightforward as junior aspirin. The chapters are illustrated with moving stories from those who have struggled to live with the syndrome and whose lives have been transformed once it was diagnosed.
Triona Holden is a journalist and patron of the Hughes Syndrome Foundation. She formerly worked as a BBC TV news presenter and correspondent.
128pp
216 x 138 mm
ISBN: 978-0-85969-884-9
Price: £6.99
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