Is the 75-year-old Shaoxing old lady's brain "watered" into dementia?

"Your mind is flooded"

We often use this sentence to diss people

But in fact, everyone has water in their head

It’s just that too much water will cause big problems

There is a disease called "hydrocephalus"

This is the case

Hydrocephalus is not only common in patients with cerebral hemorrhage and traumatic brain injury

Normal people may also appear with age

For example, a disease called "reversible dementia"

Is caused by hydrocephalus

Shaoxing's 75-year-old grandmother Sun (a pseudonym) was hit

Too much water in my head

The 75-year-old woman became "dementia"

Mrs.

But since last year, Mrs.

"How should I put it, I always feel that my mother has become a child in an instant, and she can no longer take care of herself.

In order to make a further diagnosis, the family drove to the Department of Neurosurgery at the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine on the recommendation of a local doctor.

Normal adults have roughly 100-150ml of cerebrospinal fluid in the cranial cavity, and 300-500ml is newly produced every day.

Treating "more water" in the brain

"Dementia" can also be reversed

Like the common central nervous system diseases in the elderly such as Alzheimer and Parkinson, reversible dementia is also a degenerative disease of the central nervous system.

After receiving a lumbar puncture and drainage experiment (a certain amount of cerebrospinal fluid was released through a lumbar puncture), Mrs.

In the traditional treatment mode, it is necessary to drill a hole on the patient’s skull to puncture the brain and place one end of the drainage tube into the ventricle, while the other end is placed in the abdominal cavity to drain the excess cerebrospinal fluid from the ventricle to the abdominal cavity, the greater omentum of the abdominal cavity and other structures.

"The shunt of the lumbar cistern and abdominal cavity has been slightly improved at the surgical site.

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Dementia caused by hydrocephalus is not a true pathological dementia.

Pay attention! These conditions can cause hydrocephalus

Don’t underestimate this inconspicuous cerebrospinal fluid.

So, under what circumstances will hydrocephalus occur? What are the symptoms of hydrocephalus? In fact, there are many diseases in life that may be caused by hydrocephalus that are often overlooked by us.

01

Hydrocephalus is most common in the complications of some central nervous system diseases, such as cerebral hemorrhage, brain trauma, meningitis, brain tumors, etc.

02

If the child ’s head is very large, like a big-headed doll, it may also be hydrocephalus.

03

Elderly people over 60 years old who have symptoms like senile dementia such as unsteady walking, poor control of urine and bowel, cognitive impairment, etc.

Due to the chronic onset of hydrocephalus and its different causes, its symptoms are not universal.

So, don’t use "brain in water" to diss people in the future.

After all, everyone has water in their head

Moreover, under normal circumstances, this water is quite useful