What is the brain encephalopathy

Encephalopathy - non-inflammatory diseases of the brain. As a result, various diseases and pathologies impaired cerebral blood supply, there is brain tissue anoxia. Due to the lack of oxygen, nerve cells die, the brain areas are turned off from work and there encephalopathy.

The disease is congenital and acquired:

• Congenital encephalopathy, cerebral vessels arises from the generic intracranial injury, abnormalities of brain development during pregnancy transferred infection.

• Acquired encephalopathy occurs in adults as a result of disease or injury.

The symptoms of encephalopathy

Symptoms of the disease include sleep disturbances, fatigue, headaches, tinnitus, irritability, confusion, impaired coordination. Man gets tired quickly, it is deteriorating eyesight and hearing may be seeing double, dramatically change the mood. The patient deteriorated mental ability, memory: he forgets where was going, or does not remember events from the past. In some cases, psychiatric disorders are observed: hallucinations, delusional disorders.

In severe lesions of the brain encephalopathy, the following symptoms: anxiety, headache (usually in the neck), nausea, blurred vision, dizziness, numbness, weakness. Man falls into depression, become apathetic, hardly speaks a few words, it narrows the range of interests.

When you need to see a doctor

Urgently contact your doctor if you:

• sharply felt strong unexplained headache;
• lose his balance, came the urge to vomit;
• feel numbness of the face, legs or arms;
• difficulty speaking and understanding speech;
• suddenly became ill see;
• difficulty swallowing.

The dangerous encephalopathy

Complications of the disease depends on the extent of brain damage. The disease leads to the violation of intellectual abilities, problems with movement, muscle tone and speech. In severe cases of encephalopathy, cerebral vessels can cause coma and even death.

Hepatic encephalopathy is untreated causes swelling of the brain with a hernia. Uremic encephalopathy leads to apathy, hallucinations, muscle twitching, convulsions.

a heart attack or brain hemorrhage often develops on the background of vascular encephalopathy. The severe consequences of the disease - stroke. It leads to violations of sensitivity, coordination, speech and mental disorder.

Diagnostics

The sooner a patient diagnosed with encephalopathy, the more effective the treatment will be. In a variety of symptoms of the disease, it is impossible to determine on their own. When sleep disturbance, memory, lethargy, contact a specialist.