HIDROCEFALIA NATURAL TREATMENT - CHILDREN

IS A SERIOUS DISEASE
Hidrocefalia is the excessive accumulation of cefalorraquídeo liquid in the cerebral ventricles. When the liquid cannot drain naturally, the accumulation brings about a pressure detrimental for cerebral weaves and an abnormal enlargement in the size of the head. The person with this suffering needs an operation to be able to survive. Hidrocefalia presents/displays risks for the cognitive development as as much physical of the person. It is important to work with an interdisciplinary group to improve the quality of life of the boy. The operation and the therapies of rehabilitation can lead it to a life with few limitations.

Forms to acquire
Hidrocefalia can congenital or be acquired. Hidrocefalia acquired is developed later at the time of the birth or in a point. This type of hidrocefalia can affect the people of all the ages and can be caused by an injury, tumor or a disease.

Symptoms
• The capacity of a child to tolerate the pressure of the cerebrospinal liquid differs from the one of an adult. The skull of the boy can expand to  lodge the increase of the cerebrospinal liquid because the sutures (the fibrous meetings that connects the bones of the skull) have still not been closed.
• In the childhood, the most evident indication of hidrocefalia is typically the fast increase of the circumference of the head or a size of the    extraordinarily great head.
• Other symptoms can include vomits, dream, irritability, deflection of the eyes downwards (also called “sun putting”) and convulsions.
• Children majors and adults can undergo different symptoms because its skull cannot expand to lodge the increase of the cerebrospinal liquid. In these cases, symptoms can to include headaches followed of vomits, nauseas, papiledema (swelling of the optical disk that is part of the    optical nerve), blurred vision, diplopía (double vision), deflection towards underneath the eyes, problems of balance, deficient coordination,    upheaval in the style to walk, urinary incontinence, reduction or loss of development, lethargy, drowsiness, irritability or other changes in the    personality or the knowledge, including the loss of the memory.

Treatment
The boy with hidrocefalia must be hospitalized to realise an operation to him. The operation consists of placing a tube that makes possible the drainage of the accumulated liquid. This catheter, that is placed underneath the skin, turns aside the flow of the head to another zone of the body where it is absorbed like part of the circulatory process. In some cases drugs and evacuator lumbar punctures of cefalorraquídeo liquid are required to temporarily lighten the intercranial pressure until being operated. After the intervention, the boy will have to be watched periodically over the specialist to review if there are obstructions or infections. Sometimes, the derivation system can even require some type of adjustment or substitution of the catheter.

When to call to the doctor?
If a boy with the derivation system raises fever, feels pain in muscles of the neck or shoulders or begins to develop to a reddening or sensitivity throughout the derivation conduit, then he will have to go to the nearer center of health.