What is known about intracranial pressure
Our brain, as well as the dorsal, inside containsSpecial, filled with a cavity protecting it from blows. The liquid is called the cerebrospinal fluid, and the cavity is the ventricles. The last one, the fourth one, opens into the subarachnoid space around the brain, where the vein is sucked through the vein system, goes into the kidneys, then is excreted. The size of the space is normal in adults - 130-150 ml, and the daily production of cerebrospinal fluid - 450-500 ml. Such a spinal substrate, in addition to protection, exerts pressure on the brain, which is individual for each person. An increase in the amount of CSF gives increased intracranial pressure, and a decrease - reduced. Pressure is considered:
- normal 10-15 mm Hg. p.
- at a higher (from 15 to 25) treatment is required;
- excess of 25 mm Hg. Art. is critical and requires urgent intervention.
What are the reasons for the increase
Intracranial pressure, like arterial pressure, is notconstantly, during the day can both rise and fall without affecting our health. It is only a persistent change that causes fear, which necessarily manifests itself as certain symptoms that should not be ignored, because we are talking about our health and the health of our close people. Therefore, it is worthwhile to carefully monitor the state of health, not to ascribe a headache only to fatigue, weather or stressful situations, it can be a signal to increase the pressure inside the skull of adults. Persistent signs of a change in pressure inside the skull, if you do not treat meningitis, trauma and tumors, of course, can not appear suddenly if a person has blooming health. In order that they arise, there must always be some long-term changes in the body that violated the metabolic processes in it. They can even become ordinary atherosclerosis or disorders in posture. The physiological causes of pressure changes in adults are an increase in the amount of CSF due to:
- disturbance of circulation, when the cerebrospinal fluid is absorbed into the blood insufficiently;
- when there is a lot of fluid in the body, and too much liquor is released.
Intracranial pressure in adults mayincrease gradually, then the body adapts to it, and the symptoms are expressed implicitly, mixing with the signs of other diseases. In such situations, high hypertension may go unnoticed. 
What is characteristic for pressure changes
In order not to miss the "hidden" increase in ICP, you need to analyze your condition, paying attention to such symptoms:
- the gradual emergence of a headache when its intensity is moderate, but it "gives" to the eye area, and on awakening it is felt as a "bursting" in the head;
- the pain is worse lying, with coughing, with a backward incline, that is, when outflow of venous blood from the cavity of the skull is hampered;
- in the morning, together with pain, there may be a vomiting of relief;
- such manifestations are accompanied by a "noise" in the head;
- there is swelling of the eyelids (with bruises) and face;
- the pain in the head passes, if it is more convenient to lie down, having beaten the pillow and straightening the neck (this improves the circulation of the cerebrospinal fluid).
Over time, compensatory opportunities are running low,convenient positions are becoming less and the person is forced to take bizarre positions to at least partially get rid of the pain. Then they add:
- apathy and drowsiness or excitement;
- palpitation;
- visual impairment (defective nerve) in the form of strabismus, fogging and loss of lateral and central visual fields;
- neurological manifestations - violations of movement and speech, hearing, smell.
Sharply high pressure appears in the following cases:
- cerebral hypoxia;
- strokes;
- meningitis and encephalitis;
- tumors;
- trauma to the skull;
- poisonings;
- methods of high doses of vitamin A.
It must be remembered that separately, by itself, eachthe symptom does not mean intracranial hypertension, it is indicated by the appearance of several symptoms at once. Pressure can be lowered (hypotension) due to injuries, narrowing of blood vessels, treatment with diuretic drugs without the supervision of a doctor. Then it seems to the sick that the head, as it were, is compressed by a "hoop", they may have drowsiness and irritability, nausea and vomiting. Increased intracranial pressure - not a disease, but a set of signs that indicate the appearance in the body of pathological processes that need to be identified and begin their treatment.
What are they doing to cure
If there is a suspicion that we have an increaseintracranial pressure, you need, without delay, to visit an ophthalmologist who, when examining the fundus, will determine the condition of the veins, and on his recommendation to undergo additional examinations. Methods of tomography, echography, x-ray will determine the amount of CSF, the nature of its location and the outflow of venous blood, help clarify the alleged causes and choose treatment. In this case, the doctor will take into account the entire clinical picture, including the person's well-being. It is important to remember that treatment is prescribed only by a neurologist who intelligently interprets the results obtained at the survey. To treat, of course, you need the underlying disease, but always take additional measures to improve your health. Adults are assigned:
- diet;
- a mode of drinking;
- diuretics (eg, furoside), vascular and sedative drugs;
- nootropics, they will improve the nutrition of the brain;
- corticosteroids, in severe cases, for example, prednisolone;
- vitamins of group B, a mode of drinking;
- massage of the collar zone;
- gymnastics;
- can be applied on the advice of a doctor and folk remedies. For example, tincture of mint, parsley, bearberry, clover.
These funds, prescribed for symptoms, will reducethe amount of cerebrospinal fluid inside the brain, improve the flow of blood through the veins, stabilize the well-being. All "facilitating" procedures can be prescribed only by a doctor, it is better to conduct a checkup and all treatment in a complex in a hospital. With intracranial pressure, the symptoms and treatment are directly related to each other, so, in case of a serious condition and life-threatening, artificial ventilation of the lungs and a surgical operation are performed. In the case of hypotension, they treat, stimulating the production of fluid, normalizing the amount of electrolytes in the body. If this does not work, then surgically remove the leakage of the liquor, closing the holes. It is necessary to visit a doctor for suspicion of ICP, to listen to his opinion about the methods of treatment, to undergo a survey. Cure only by folk methods, medications or homeopathy is impossible. You can only put yourself at risk of losing time and wait in the body for irreversible changes, such as hydrocephalus (reducing the volume of the brain, replacing it with fluid), blindness, changes in intelligence. And if the treatment is "for the future," and the disease will not develop much later, no harm is done to the body, as the side effects of drugs will quickly disappear. To save health, you need to listen carefully to the "signals" that our brain gives. Increased intracranial pressure very seriously disrupts the body, creates problems in supplying the brain with oxygen, a threat to life. Our state of health directly depends on whether there has been an increase in intracranial pressure or not. When the pressure is normal, it will be all right with health.
