Hydrocephalus: Symptoms, Cause and Treatment

What is Hydrocephalus?

Hydrocephalus is a situation in which abnormal fluid develops in the brain of the baby. Hydrocephalus is a mixture of two words i.e. hydro means water and cephalus means head there it is also called as "water on the brain".

Causes of Hydrocephalus

• Hydrocephalus may cause Stenoses of the aqueduct of Sylvius which is because of deformity.
• Dandy-Walker malformation this affects to the infants.
• Congenital toxoplasmosis may responsible for this disease in new born.
• It can also occur because of mall lesion, cysts, abscesses, or hematoma.
• Prematurity, head injury can also be result in hydrocephalus.
• Infection of bacteria and cysticercosis may cause to this disease.
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage cause this disease in adults.
• Idiopathic hydrocephalus and head injury may also responsible for this disease.
• Prior posterior fossa surgery is also responsible for this disease.

Symptoms of Hydrocephalus

• Inflammation of the head and expansion of skulls.
• Irritability and poor feeding
• Lethargy.
• Headache
• Vomiting and Weakness
• Visual problem
• Blurred or double vision
• Walking difficulties.
• Poor coordination

Treatment of Hydrocephalus

• Medical treatment is useful only for avoiding surgical treatment because medical treatment is not success in the the treatment of chronic hydrocephalus.
• Surgical treatment is very useful for this disease.
• Choroid plexectomy or choroid plexus coagulations are effective for the treatment of this disease.
• Cerebral aqueductoplasty is used to treat membranous and short-segment stenoses of the sylvian aqueduct.
• Shunts are effective treatment for this disease.
• Ventriculoperitoneal shunt is a treatment which is usually used to treat.

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