ICH: Symptoms and Treatment

ICP (intracranial pressure) is the pressure of the cerebrospinal fluid (a fluid that is located in the ventricles of the brain, as well as in the channel of the spinal cord and in the interval between the spinal cord and brain, cranial and bones of the spine). Liquor is also called cerebrospinal fluid. It is constantly updated.

Periodically, all people are getting high ICP. Stress, physical stress - all this contributes to a temporary increase in eq. Symptoms manifest themselves in all different ways. Someone is dizzy, someone is sick, and so on.

The increase in ICP causes a variety of reasons. In infants this can be associated with hypoxia at the stage of pregnancy and childbirth, tumors, early closure of the fontanel, traumas and transferred brain diseases (eg, meningitis). Hence the conclusion - elevated ICP is not an independent disease, but merely a symptom of another, more serious illness.

How to find out what is the baby VCHD ? Symptoms

If the baby grows too fast, he refuses to drink water, often rolls out his eyes, strongly pulling them down (a symptom of "Gref" or the setting sun), often vomits and sometimes it tears, mows the eyes, cranial seams diverge and protrude Fontanel - these are all signs of a fetus in infants.

Older children complain of headaches, they quickly become tired, sometimes there is vomiting and often the mood changes, they are prone to convulsions. Such children often have developmental delay and strabismus, they can not concentrate, they are restless. Sleep disturbance and hyperactivity are not symptoms of an EH! Excitability, frequent crying, sleep disturbances are often signs of completely different diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to show such a child to a neurologist.

How are symptoms diagnosed in children? Babies are made uzi (neurosonography) through the fontanel, if it has not yet closed. This is an absolutely safe method of diagnosis, allowing to check the condition of the ventricles of the brain and cerebrospinal fluid. Children with a closed fontanel make a computer tomography and examine the fundus. Often the symptoms are detected by the oculist, he will notice the edema of the optic nerves, which indicates an increased incidence. A computer tomogram of the brain should be done only if there are serious problems and suspicions, because this method of diagnosis is not so harmless. Echocardiography is also determined with the help of ECHO-EG (brain echo encephalogram), but it is less accurate, but almost harmless. During the ECHO-EG, the child is not exposed to radiation.

How is it treated? Symptoms that speak of the disease can disappear after reaching the baby for half a year, because babies have huge resources for self-healing of the body, in comparison with adults. An open fontanel is needed for them precisely to combat the leaps of echinoderm, and the seams of the skull slightly decrease the pressure of the cerebrospinal fluid on the brain. To remove excess fluid from the brain, diuretic drugs are prescribed. Treatment is individual, children are prescribed medications, nutrition and blood circulation of the brain. Good massage, acupuncture, physiotherapy and physiotherapy help.

Only a highly qualified specialist can prescribe a cure for diarrhea and pick up diuretics and vascular drugs. Self-medication can not be categorically avoided, because very often one has to treat not the illness itself, but a disease that provokes its increase. Untimely treatment of such congenital diseases as encephalopathy, hydrocephalus or a brain tumor can lead to very bad consequences. Any pathology of the brain in a newborn child requires strictly professional treatment. And the earlier the disease is revealed, the more effective the treatment will be.