When the newborn is well and eats with appetite, enough to sleep, does not always be naughty, then his health is normal. However, it happens that my mother notices some oddities in the behavior of the crumbs. The kid screams for no apparent reason, shows no interest in the breast or the bottle with the mixture, it is difficult to put him to bed. Often the cause is increased intracranial pressure.
If to speak exaggerated, then in the person's head there is a brain, a cerebrospinal fluid, that is, a cerebrospinal fluid, and blood. Likvor circulates through the cerebral ventricles, between the channels of the spinal cord and the ventricles, exerting pressure on their internal surfaces. That is, there is pressure for each of us and does not represent a danger in itself, but its increase often signals the presence of diseases of different etymologies.
The causes of increased ICP
The exact list of reasons that can lead to an increase in the brain of a newborn baby's intracranial pressure is, to date, unknown. However, the relationship between poor oxygen influx and elevated ICP is obvious. If the baby has signs of increased intracranial pressure, then most likely he experienced during the period of bearing a lack of oxygen. Usually, such a diagnosis is put to children whose mothers have experienced acute toxicosis, and have taken prohibited medications. Elevated ICP may also be due to long delivery, rapid maturation or placental abruption, umbilical cord entanglement.
Symptoms
The main symptoms of increased intracranial pressure (ICP) in infants include protrusion of the fontanelle, too rapid growth of the head, a Gref symptom , that is, eye-dropping, strabismus or rolling out eyeballs, hypertonic muscle, tremor of limbs, divergence of the seams of the skull. Of course, every kid can yell and actively swing the handle for up to a year, but to calm down his mother, it is better to consult with specialists to exclude an increased ICP in a child. Symptoms of this disease in infants
Precisely, how to determine if ICP is increased in a child, can only a doctor. For this purpose, ultrasound of the brain (with an open fontanelle), echoencephalography, and, in extreme cases, magnetic resonance imaging, is usually used. But these methods are not 100% confirmation. Only the puncture gives a reliable answer. This manipulation, of course, is serious, but you can not waste time either.