Jessica Alba rushed to hospital over 'stroke fear'

Hollywood star Jessica Alba has said she was rushed to hospital in the middle of the night last week fearing she was suffering from a stroke. The 31-year-old actress was at home with her husband Cash Warren when she lost feeling in her hand and began suffering a headache and heart palpitations, reported E! Online. "Basically I thought I was having a stroke last week. I really, really thought I was. It was 2.30 in the morning and I woke up and my hand started to go numb. The whole entire thing went numb," Alba said on talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live. "It was dead, I couldn't move it. My whole arm went numb, I got cold sensations in the back of my neck to the front. I can't move my face." Panicked Alba then looked up her symptoms on the internet, and discovered they were consistent with a stroke. So she turned to the only medic she knew she could count on in the middle of the night � her daughters' paediatrician. "I texted my paediatrician. It's my kids' paediatrician, but it's the only person who will answer me at 2.30 in the morning. I texted him and I said, 'I have these symptoms... it's all going downhill!' He was like, 'You're a little young for this...'" Alba was eventually taken to a hospital for an MRI scan, which revealed she was suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome, a relatively common condition that causes pain, numbness and a tingling sensation in the hand and fingers.