Recently, some media reported that a woman in Yueyang, Hunan Province suddenly fainted while attending the funeral of the younger generation. After waking up, she kept chanting "ghosts" and began to attack people around her. Many family members were bitten and scratched by her.
According to the local custom, the elders can't attend the funeral of the younger generation. Therefore, the local people suspected that Ms. Huang had "hit a ghost" at the funeral. Finally, after hospital examination, it was found that there was a meningioma the size of a meatball deep in the anterior skull base.
Abnormal mental behavior is one of the early warning signals of brain tumors.
The doctor introduced that because frontotemporal brain tumors can lead to personality changes, abnormal behavior patterns and obvious emotional fluctuations, which are different from previous manifestations. Compression of the cerebral cortex can also lead to epilepsy symptoms such as be absent-minded and convulsions. If you find that your family members have different manners and ways of thinking, you must pay attention to it. It is likely that brain tumors are making trouble.
In addition, what are the warning signals for brain tumors?
The early warning signal of brain tumor depends on the nature, size and growth position of the lesion. When it grows in a limited intracranial space, it often causes compression of the adjacent brain tissue, which in turn causes neurological dysfunction, increased intracranial pressure and other abnormalities. Common early warning signals include headache, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, epilepsy and impaired vision, among which mental and behavioral abnormalities are one, and also include:
1. Headache
About half of patients with brain tumors have headache symptoms, which is caused by the tumor stimulating meninges and blood vessels. As the tumor gets bigger, normal brain tissues will also be severely compressed. Although there are many causes of headache, many patients with non-brain tumors may have headache symptoms due to fatigue, nervousness, migraine and other reasons, if your headache becomes more and more frequent, it is obvious when you exercise or change your posture, or when ordinary painkillers are ineffective in the morning, you should be alert to the possibility of brain tumors.
2, fatigue
Patients suffering from brain tumors will feel tired most of the time, even drowsy, with prolonged nap time, heavy limbs and obvious fatigue after exercise or work. Fatigue caused by normal physical fatigue is related to lifestyle and mental stress, which can be improved after rest. However, it is difficult for patients with brain tumors to relieve their fatigue after rest. This abnormal fatigue may be caused by the tumor itself, physical resistance and disease consumption.
3. Nausea and vomiting
Nausea and vomiting are common symptoms of many diseases. Different from other diseases, brain tumors cause nausea and vomiting due to increased intracranial pressure, and lesions located in the posterior cranial fossa are more common, and there are often problems of choking and aspiration. If your nausea intensifies in the morning, you vomit frequently, or you often choke, feel sick and vomit for no reason, there is a possibility of brain tumor.
4. Visual impairment
Brain tumors in the sellar region, pituitary gland or skull base will directly compress the optic nerve, and patients will consciously have blurred vision, impaired vision, and often bump into others or even doorframes when walking. In addition, chronic intracranial hypertension caused by other brain tumors will indirectly lead to optic nerve edema and decreased vision. Many people will treat it as an eye disease, but they have never found anything abnormal after repeated examinations. If your vision becomes blurred, it is difficult to read or watch videos, and there is no obvious abnormality in eye examination, you need to be alert to brain tumors.
5. Clumsy limbs
Brain tumors can compress the functional areas of the cortex, such as the motor center of the body, resulting in weakness of the contralateral body, decreased coordination, affecting sports and daily life, and may be accompanied by facial paralysis. If the lesions are located in the dominant hemisphere, there may be speech disorders. Patients can lose their balance or even fall when running or walking, and their limbs are clumsy. Those who have no neurological diseases in the past should go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible if they have similar symptoms.
6. Hearing impairment
VIII Patients with brain tumors originating from or near cranial nerves may have paroxysmal tinnitus and hearing deterioration. When the tumor is large, it may be accompanied by ipsilateral facial numbness and facial paralysis. In severe cases, it may be accompanied by symptoms such as dysphagia, unsteady gait and even blurred vision. If you have similar symptoms, you need to be highly suspicious of brain tumors.
7. Abnormal hormones or appearance
Young women stop menstruating and lactation for no reason, and their hands, feet, nose, chin, full moon face, buffalo back and shoes are gradually unable to fit on, which may be related to pituitary adenoma. These hormones secreted by pituitary adenoma can lead to abnormal hormone secretion in human body, which in turn leads to abnormal appearance and menstruation.
Early identification and diagnosis are very important in the process of tumor prevention and treatment.
The prevention and treatment of brain tumors is an important issue worthy of world attention! However, we know that when the tumor reaches the advanced stage, it is an unsolved problem whether from the family cost or from the body recovery. Therefore, early identification and diagnosis is very important in the process of tumor prevention and treatment, and we should also pay attention to it. Patients with two or more symptoms need to go to the hospital neurosurgery as soon as possible to carry out relevant examinations and tests to assist diagnosis. In laboratory examination, blood tests such as blood routine, liver and kidney function and hormones need to be completed for brain tumors. In imaging, common tests include CT and MRI. For patients involving functional areas, nerve fiber tracking and functional magnetic resonance imaging need to be completed to help make surgical plans. In addition, MRV, CTA or DSA should be completed for cases with abundant blood supply and close to large vessels or venous sinuses.
We believe that with the in-depth understanding of brain tumors, the incidence and mortality will be reduced, the early diagnosis rate and survival rate will be improved, and the health level of people all over the world will be improved.
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