Symptoms of hydrocephalus in the elderly

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What is the condition of senile hydrocephalus? Hydrocephalus is a very serious disease, so when hydrocephalus occurs, patients will cause headache and vomiting symptoms, but also affect the patient's vision, will cause optic nerve papilledema. Hydrocephalus is a very common disease in children. Now the elderly will also have hydrocephalus. What are the symptoms of hydrocephalus in the elderly? Let's have a specific understanding today.

Symptoms of hydrocephalus in the elderly

First: the most typical symptom of hydrocephalus in the elderly is to cause certain mental disorders. At the beginning of the disease, it will cause mental reactions and frequent forgetfulness. As time goes on, it will cause speech disorders and also lead to the influence of computational power.

Second: the elderly often fall when walking, and do not have a certain drag phenomenon, the limbs will become too rigid, the movement will become very slow, especially in the lower limbs will cause the sperm and eggs are not lifted, when the disease reaches the peak will cause the independent activity to be limited.

Third: when the elderly have hydrocephalus, it will also cause urinary incontinence, mainly after mental and gait disorders. With the development of the disease, it will gradually cause the deterioration of the disease, and the symptoms will be very obvious, which will directly cause urinary incontinence. This situation is very serious.

matters needing attention

What we said above is the symptoms of hydrocephalus in the elderly. When the patient has hydrocephalus, we should seize the time to treat it. After the patient's symptoms have improved, we must pay attention to the conditioning in life.