What is brain edema

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Most people are relatively unfamiliar with brain edema. What is brain edema? What are the symptoms? How to treat it? Do you know all about it? Let's take a look at some knowledge about brain edema.

What is brain edema

First, the symptoms of brain damage. Local brain edema often occurs around the local brain contusion, laceration, brain tumor and vascular disease. The common symptoms are aggravation of epilepsy and paralysis, or motor aphasia caused by the expansion of water quality, which affects the speech motor center. After brain injury, if the symptoms worsen gradually, more attention should be paid to brain edema. Diffuse brain edema may continue to spread to the whole brain due to the uncontrolled local brain edema, or diffuse brain edema at the beginning, such as diffuse axonal injury. 　　

2. Symptoms of increased intracranial pressure. The symptoms were headache, vomiting, restlessness, drowsiness and even coma. Fundus examination showed papilledema. Early changes in vital signs, slow pulse and breathing, high blood pressure, such as brain edema and intracranial pressure continue to worsen can lead to cerebral hernia. 　　

Third, other symptoms. Brain edema affects the frontal lobe, temporal lobe and anterior thalamus, which can cause mental disorders, and in severe cases, unconsciousness and coma. Increased intracranial pressure can also cause mental symptoms. Sometimes the body temperature increases moderately, the brain edema involves the hypothalamus, may cause the hypothalamus damage symptom.

matters needing attention

It is suggested that active treatment of primary disease, symptomatic treatment, albumin treatment if necessary.