Lumbar puncture after-effects, to put it bluntly, are the after-effects of the lumbar spine at the time of the puncture surgery, which can also be called complications. It is important to understand that the full name of lumbar puncture is lumbar puncture, the key significance is to be able to get part of the cerebrospinal fluid in the spinal canal to carry out laboratory tests. It is often used by neurologists to identify neurological inflammation or demyelination.
Because in the case of lumbar puncture, the cerebrospinal fluid is extracted from the subarachnoid space, and after undergoing the lumbar puncture procedure, the patient usually feels a relatively significant pain in the area of the puncture procedure, which usually subsides after the patient recuperates for a while.
Most patients after a lumbar puncture have responded to headaches that occur after a lumbar puncture. Generally speaking, this kind of headache is due to the doctor in the process of puncture surgery to extract part of the cerebrospinal fluid, resulting in a temporary reduction of cerebrospinal fluid pressure, and this kind of headache is characterized by the patient in the case of lying down will be reduced or even subside, and the patient sitting or standing up will be exacerbated by the headache. In this case, you can drink a lot of water, usually in 1-2 days will slowly subside, do not need to panic, but if accompanied by long-term headache that may need to go to the hospital as soon as possible to check whether there is a neurological problem.
Another representative of the after-effects of lumbar puncture is cauda equina injury, which most people know relatively little about. The cauda equina is a combination of 10 pairs of nerve roots from the L2-5, S1-5 and caudal ganglia. However, the cauda equina does not unfold from L2, but is connected to the spinal cord nerves at the L1 spinal cord cone, so the cauda equina has a high probability of suffering from nerve damage inside.
Why is there a relationship between lumbar puncture and cauda equina injury? Because the patient in the lumbar spinal puncture process, due to part of the puncture surgery is likely to cause the puncture surgery site of the subcutaneous bleeding, which is related to the patient's physical quality of content, health, blood clotting is not routine and other reasons. If the puncture surgery caused subcutaneous bleeding is more serious, then due to the special location, it is easy to directly lead to cauda equina injury or cauda equina nerve by subcutaneous bleeding extrusion occurs after the cauda equina syndrome.
After the cauda equina is compressed, there will be tingling or numbness in the lower limbs, and these two sensory abnormalities are more common symptoms. If very obvious damage to the cauda equina in the case may also jeopardize their mobility, the more serious may cause hemiplegia or paralysis. Naturally, paralysis from the cauda equina is a relatively small percentage of the total number of cases.
The cauda equina belongs to the peripheral nerves, which not only jeopardize the mobility and sensory functions, but also jeopardize the sensory problems of the patient's bowel movement and saddle area, and can make the patient suffer from urinary incontinence, urinary retention, and difficulty in defecation, etc. Therefore, the cauda equina is very important to the patient's health. So the cauda equina is a very critical innervation area for the body.
The cauda equina syndrome that results from damage to the cauda equina is one of the more serious complications of the lumbar spine.
Currently, lumbar puncture is required for inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system, cerebrovascular accidents, and for intrathecal administration of drugs for central nervous system diseases. As a result, there is an increasing chance of complications, but it is generally not easy for doctors with good user ratings and sufficient experience to make mistakes. This greatly reduces the likelihood of patient complications due to the means.
So what are the circumstances under which a patient will experience the after-effects of lumbar puncture? This is to be combined with the patient's own condition, if the patient has to take a long time to take puncture surgery, constantly take puncture surgery, the muscles of the waist and back will be part of the unavoidable injury, so the chances of such a slightly unprofessional or skillful doctor will cause the patient to have complications.
Because all of the puncture surgeries performed in large hospitals are performed by residents or trainees, there is a difference, so even if a lumbar puncture is necessary, it is important to select an experienced surgeon to perform the procedure. There is also the possibility that the puncture procedure is not sterilized, and in some unprofessional "hospitals" the medical equipment may not be sterilized properly, so there is a high risk of bacterial infections during the puncture procedure that can lead to other complications.
Of course, cauda equina syndrome is only one of the serious sequelae of lumbar puncture, lumbar puncture may induce brain hernia, once induced occipital foramen magnum hernia, respiratory and cardiac arrest will occur, resulting in the death of the patient. So do lumbar puncture patients try not to stay up at night, to work and rest regularly, can not play a long time cell phone computer.
This is not to scare you, because there are various conditions that can cause cauda equina syndrome after lumbar puncture in the past, and some of them have been reported by patients. It is not enough to know the good things about a particular treatment modality, but it is equally important to be informed about the bad things that can happen.
But lumbar puncture is indeed an indispensable clinical diagnostic modality for many conditions, and if the precise indications for lumbar puncture are selected and the procedure is accurately and skillfully mastered, lumbar puncture is unlikely to pose a risk to health, nor is it likely to make a person stupid after having cerebrospinal fluid pumped in, and it is unlikely to cause complications.