Love bite from girlfriend kills male Mexico City teen

A hickey is not only embarrassing but also deadly. A 17-year-old Mexico City resident convulsed at dinner with his family after he spent time with a 24-year-old woman, his girlfriend, who gave him a love bite on the neck.

It is believed that the hickey made by the lover of Julio Macias Gonzalez caused a blood clot which traveled to his brain and triggered a stroke. The family, who blames the girlfriend – who has disappeared - for his death, called paramedics but it was too late.

It was also a hickey that caused a 44-year-old New Zealand woman in 2011 to lose movement in her left arm after she had a stroke. Doctors noticed a faded love bite on her neck and linked the damage to a major artery in her neck and the resulting paralysis, reports The Sun.

Similar to Gonzalez’s case, the hickey caused a blood clot that moved to her heart and caused a stroke, sending the woman to Middlemore Hospital in Auckland. Dr Teddy Wu, the doctor who treated her said it was the first case of a hickey causing a stroke in the hospital’s history.

Sucking on an area of another person’s skin – usually on the neck – causes blood vessels under the skin to bruise which could be up to two weeks. Hickeys also cause swelling, treated with an ice pack.

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