One and a half year old baby hydrocephalus symptoms?

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Hydrocephalus I believe we have heard, in clinical hydrocephalus is a very common brain disease, can occur in any population. Especially some younger children are the high risk group of hydrocephalus. But in daily life, people don't know enough about the symptoms of hydrocephalus, so they can't find and treat hydrocephalus early. To this end, today we mainly introduce in detail about the baby hydrocephalus symptoms.

One and a half year old baby hydrocephalus symptoms?

Hydrocephalus children's performance: Hydrocephalus children's most typical performance is "big head", dense hair, thin and bright scalp, sometimes visible scalp vein anger. Although the head of the child is large, but the face is relatively small. In severe cases, the eyeball moves down and the sclera is exposed. Some are characterized by growth retardation, vision decline, feeding difficulty, strabismus and hyperopia difficulty, and characteristic high pitched crying. When the patient's condition is serious, the patient may suffer from physical malaise, incontinence, irritability, difficulty in bending his head, simple drowsiness, fainting, even convulsions, and the worst may suffer from cerebral hernia and die.

Hydrocephalus in children usually begins to increase in the head a few weeks after birth, and is gradually found after 3 to 5 months. There are also cases of brain enlargement at birth. In clinical practice, the abnormal progressive enlargement of the head caused by increased intracranial pressure is out of proportion to the development of the whole body. The frontal part protrudes forward, the orbital apex is compressed downward, the binocular ball looks down, and the eyeball turns down, which causes the upper sclera to show white, the anterior fontanel to expand and the tension to increase, other fontanels can also expand, the skull bone suture to separate, and the scalp vein to expand.

Percussion of the head showed "broken pot sound". In infants with patent sutures and increased intracranial pressure, compensatory cranial enlargement may occur, so the symptoms of increased intracranial pressure may not be obvious in the early stage. However, hydrocephalus can also occur when it is serious and develops rapidly, and its symptoms are repeated vomiting. Brain degeneration, brain development disorders, central paralysis of limbs, especially the lower limbs, often with intellectual changes and developmental disorders. Optic nerve compression atrophy, can cause blindness. Nystagmus and convulsion were also common. It is often accompanied by deformities in other parts of the body.

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These are some of the symptoms that most patients with hydrocephalus will have. Most of the patients in the process of treatment, did not take the initiative to understand the consciousness of hydrocephalus, in this case, the treatment is often unable to achieve good results. I hope these can help you cure the disease as soon as possible.