Julio Macias Gonzalez, a 17-year-old Mexican, dined quietly at his family home in Mexico City, when he was suddenly convulsed. Despite the rapid arrival of relief on the spot, the young man unfortunately died of a stroke, relays the information site Hoy estado de México .

The cause of this accident according to the medical team? A hickey in the neck. If the case is extremely rare, the pressure exerted by the lips can indeed cause a hematoma, causing the formation of a blood clot which, going back into the brain, creates stroke.

The same day Julio Garcia Gonzales had spent the afternoon with his girlfriend, says the local press.

A similar case of stroke caused by a hickey in New Zealand

In 2010, a similar case could be handled on time in New Zealand. Worried, a 44-year-old woman presented to the hospital with sudden paralysis of her left arm. The diagnosis is then irrevocable: thrombosis of the internal carotid due to "an unusual case of cervical trauma".

In short, a hickey, noted as a "small vertical echosis raised on the right front of the neck," in the report of doctors and retrasnicted in The New Zealand Medical Journal . Supported quickly, the patient could be treated without any sequelae.

For its part, the family of the young Julio Macias Gonzalez would consider filing a complaint against the girlfriend at the origin of the fatal hickey.