Brain hypertension in infants

One of the most common neurological pathologies in infants is considered to be cerebral hypertension (or hypertensive syndrome). This disorder is characterized by increased pressure inside the skull.

It is known that the brain of a person is washed with a spinal fluid, which is called the cerebrospinal fluid. Normally, there is equilibrium between the production of this fluid and its inverse absorption into the blood. For some reasons, the volume of intracranial contents may increase, resulting in an imbalance and, as a consequence, an increase in intracranial pressure. The main reasons for the development of hypertensive syndrome in children include: intrauterine hypoxia , prematurity, ischemic brain damage, intracranial hemorrhage, congenital malformations of the brain, intrauterine infection, and birth trauma.

Signs of hypertensive syndrome in newborns

With craniocerebral hypertension, neonatal children are noted for a rather restless behavior, accompanied by periodic crying and sleep disturbances. Unlike older children, as such they barely feel the headache, but against the background of general discomfort, nausea, vomiting, excessive sweating, as well as fluctuating body temperature of the baby are observed. These children are weather-dependent, so they react to any weather changes and magnetic storms. Among the external signs, there is a too rapid increase in the circumference of the head, a large fontanel, a small closed fontanelle and seams between the bones of the skull, and a network of subcutaneous veins in the child on the forehead, nose, or temples.

Hypertensive syndrome in children - treatment

Children with this diagnosis should be observed and treated by a neurologist at least for one year. Treatment is appointed depending on the severity of the pathology and consists in the use of medicines that are excreted excess of cerebrospinal fluid from the cerebral membranes, or in the appointment of drugs that bring the vascular tone back to normal. In addition, with a sedative purpose, usually prescribed herbal infusions, such as mint, motherwort, valerian, etc ..

To restore the child's nervous system, it should be ensured that the baby is less likely to cry, sleep and eat according to the prescribed regime, and also walk as much as possible in the fresh air.

In most cases, in young children, after treatment by the sixth month of life, everything goes without a trace, but sometimes this violation can last for life and at any critical moment again manifest itself.