What does the symptom of infantile brain tumor have

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Infantile brain tumor is a common disease, but nearly half of the patients with infantile brain tumor were misdiagnosed before diagnosis. Of course, there are some extreme cases. They went through five or six departments including gastroenterology department, endocrinology department and nephrology department, and finally transferred to neurosurgery department. In some primary hospitals, not to mention special wards, there are not even professional doctors in pediatric neurology department. General pediatric doctors are not familiar with brain tumors and are easy to make mistakes, so they miss the treatment time. The high misdiagnosis rate leads to the delay of the best treatment time of brain tumor in infants, resulting in serious consequences. Here are the symptoms of brain tumors in infants.

What does the symptom of infantile brain tumor have

Symptom 1: unstable walking. Many parents think that unstable walking is just a step backward in their children's development. They have learned to walk, but they suddenly want to "step back". They walk around like a drunk. This may be caused by a brain tumor. In serious cases, they may even be unable to stand and basically lose their ability to move independently.

Symptom 2: vision loss. Similarly, many people mistake a baby's vision loss for myopia. Due to the increase of intracranial pressure caused by infantile swelling tumor, it is easy to cause optic nerve papilledema, so a considerable number of patients will have vision loss, some even blindness. In addition, there may be "cross eye" or "cross eye".

Symptom 3: vomiting and abdominal pain. Never treat gastrointestinal discomfort. As one of the most common manifestations of brain tumors in infants, the incidence of vomiting is very high, and vomiting is even the only early symptom of some children. Especially in the morning or after breakfast, after vomiting can eat immediately, but soon vomiting. A few children will also have abdominal pain.

matters needing attention

Because most of the children with brain tumors in infants are very young, especially those less than three years old, radiotherapy will have long-term side effects on the development of brain tissue, which may cause radiation brain necrosis, hypothyroidism, growth retardation, IQ reduction and other complications, which need high attention.