Patient's question:
My friend's granddaughter has hydrocephalus and is always sleepy and unable to wake up. Her eyes are squinted, and she can usually eat dinner. She doesn't understand adult speech. I want to ask what symptoms are there in a 5-year-old child with hydrocephalus?Doctor's answer:
Common causes of hydrocephalus include intracranial inflammation, cerebral vascular malformations, traumatic brain injury, various endogenous or exogenous neurotoxins, aspiration, water and electrolyte disorders, acidosis, liver and kidney failure, and so on. All of these may be caused by the accumulation of fluid in the brain tissue through different mechanisms. The clinical manifestations are inconsistent. The main symptoms of hydrocephalus are related to the age of onset, the severity of the pathology, and the duration of the disease.