What are the symptoms of a brain tumor?

Everyone is very scared when talking about tumors. In fact, tumors are not the most terrible thing. What is terrible is that tumors spread in our bodies but we don’t know it. Many brain tumors are already in the late stage when they are discovered. In fact, if brain tumors can be discovered as early as possible, timely surgery will not cause much harm to our bodies. The following introduces the symptoms of brain tumors. Understanding the symptoms can help us detect and treat them early.

Common symptoms of a brain tumor

①Symptoms of increased intracranial pressure: Because the cranial cavity is a closed bone box with only one exit, called the foramen magnum, which allows the spinal cord to pass through. If a tumor grows in the brain and the contents of the skull increase, it will cause increased intracranial pressure. Although some tumors are not large in size, they block the cerebrospinal fluid circulation pathway, causing the ventricles to expand and may also cause a significant increase in intracranial pressure.

② Headache: The brain tissue itself has no sense of pain. The pain is caused by stretching the meninges and blood vessels in the skull. It often occurs in the early morning and worsens paroxysmal headaches based on persistent headaches. Taking painkillers has little effect and sometimes delays the disease.

③ Vomiting: It is often projectile, with no obvious nausea before vomiting, and has little to do with eating.

④ Optic disc edema: Doctors can use an ophthalmoscope to observe that the boundaries of the optic disc are unclear, the veins are tortuous and dilated, and in severe cases, flame-shaped fundus hemorrhages may occur, and even secondary atrophy of the optic disc may occur, resulting in decreased vision or even blindness.

⑤Epilepsy: Epileptic seizures are also one of the common symptoms of brain tumors. Convulsions occur because the tumor stimulates the cerebral cortex and causes abnormal discharge reactions.

⑥ Polydipsia and polyuria: mostly caused by hypothalamic lesions, and also accompanied by water and salt metabolism disorders, such as diabetes insipidus (polydipsia and polyuria), high or low sodium in the blood, etc.

⑦ Changes in vital signs: Moderate and severe acute increase in intracranial pressure often causes slower breathing and pulse, and increased blood pressure.

⑧ Mental and consciousness disorders and other symptoms: dizziness, diplopia, amaurosis fugax, cataplexy, confusion, mental restlessness or apathy, epilepsy, and even coma.

If you find yourself or someone around you has any of the above symptoms, we would like to remind you to go to a cancer hospital for examination in time and actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment to avoid missing the best treatment time. At the same time, it is also important for doctors to provide spiritual care to patients with tumors, encourage them, and stimulate their will to survive.