Symptoms and hazards of pituitary tumor

summary

Pituitary tumor is a kind of intracranial tumor, which occurs in the anterior and posterior pituitary and residual cells of craniopharyngeal duct epithelium. The harm to patients is great, serious will appear some complications, such as water, electrolyte disorders, cerebrospinal fluid leakage and cerebral palsy, meningitis, vascular damage, etc., serious will endanger life, we need to pay attention to timely treatment, pituitary tumor symptoms harm, below I tell you.

Symptoms and hazards of pituitary tumor

There are many symptoms of pituitary tumor, according to the specific type of patients will have different clinical symptoms need to pay attention to. For example, excessive growth hormone can cause acromegaly, the main performance of patients is face change, hands and feet become thick and so on are common.

In addition, most patients will have persistent headache symptoms, and some will have changes in vision and vision, such as the eyes can not see clearly, easy to hit the door frame, and so on. Serious cases will lead to blindness. In addition, menstrual disorders, menopause, lactation and so on are also common symptoms that need attention.

The patient's sexual function will gradually decline, body hair will gradually reduce, if it belongs to adrenocorticotropic hormone cell adenoma, there will be body centripetal obesity, full moon face, as well as the skin with purple lines, hair increase are common symptoms, we need to pay attention to.

matters needing attention

Patients usually need to strengthen their own physical exercise, enhance their physical fitness, and patients also need to pay more attention to diet, such as alcohol, stimulating food or drink, etc. These foods that have an impact on the disease should be prohibited.