What symptom is pontine dehydration?

Update Date: 2022-01-27 Source: Network

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For patients with pontine dehydration, first of all, we should consider the treatment of patients in time. Of course, in certain cases, if we want to better deal with the disease of central pontine myelinolysis, we also need to consider the daily life of patients. In many cases, some adverse factors in daily life will also lead to the formation of the disease.

What symptom is pontine dehydration?

1. The prominent feature of this disease is that the patient is either in the late stage of chronic alcoholism, or often accompanied by a serious life-threatening disease. More than half of the cases occurred in the late stage of chronic alcoholism, accompanied by Wernicke encephalopathy and multiple peripheral neuritis. Other diseases or clinical symptoms often associated with central pontine myelinolysis are: chronic renal failure after dialysis treatment; Liver failure; Advanced lymphoma and cancer; Cachexia caused by various causes; Severe bacterial infection; Dehydration and electrolyte disorder; Severe burns and hemorrhagic pancreatitis.

2. On the basis of the primary disease, patients often have sudden flaccid paralysis of limbs, chewing, swallowing and speech disorders, nystagmus and eye gaze disorders, etc., which may present as silent and complete or incomplete atresia syndrome.

3. Brainstem auditory evoked potential (BAEP) can help to determine the pontine lesions, but it can not determine the extent of the lesions. MRI can find the characteristic bat wing like lesions in the base of the pontine, with symmetrical distribution of T1 low signal and T2 high signal, without enhancement effect.

matters needing attention

There is still a lot of knowledge about pontine dehydration disease. The treatment of the disease needs a certain amount of time, especially for central pontine myelinolysis, which requires a certain degree of confidence and patience. The treatment of the disease also needs multi angle consideration. Only when we fully consider it, can we deal with the patients with pontine dehydration well.