Hydrocephalous is a severe neurological condition in children and adults. In hydrocephalus, there is excessive brain water. Hydrocephalous is two types: communicating Hydrocephalous and non-communicating Hydrocephalous or obstructive hydrocephalous

Hydrocephalous is caused in in premature infants, children with neonatal sepsis, neonatal meningitis, and neonatal pneumonia. In adults it can be caused by tuberculoma, cancers, medulloblastoma, astrocytoma, glioma, glioblastoma multiforme, ICSOL, SOL, brain cancer, lymphoma CNS, space occupying lesion, neurocysticercosis, and ependymoma, haemorrhage in ventricles

Children with hydrocephalous manifest with large head, macrocephaly, seizures, stiffening, tightening, irritability, downward down going eyes. In adult, they can cause repeated headaches, vomiting, difficulty in walking, recurrent seizures

Hydrocephalous treatment includes medicines and surgery. Hydrocephalous surgery involves VP shunt or omaaya shunt. In VP shunt, a pipe is placed (by a neurosurgeon) in brain which connects brain to abdomen. This VP shunt drains excessive water into abdomen. Complications of VP shunt include blockage, repeat shunt, repeat surgery, VP shunt breakage, VIP shunt infection

Children with hydrocephalous may have

• Delay in sitting and standing
• Speech delay
• Seizures
• Stiffness
• Spasticity
• Hypertonia
• Eye deviation
• Squint
• Toe walking

Comprehensive treatment of hydrocephalous by best child specialist and best neurologist in Chandigarh includes physiotherapy at home, home speech therapy, occupation therapy, behaviour therapy and special education.

Hydrocephalous treatment also needs for

• Seizures treatment
• Epilepsy treatment
• Spasticity treatment
• Tightness
• Constipation
• Medicines to reduce brain water production (CSF)
• Constipation treatment

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