What are the early symptoms of brain tumors

Brain tumor is a type of malignant tumor located in the brain. Once this type of disease occurs, it will have a great impact on the patient's physical and mental health. Therefore, friends must learn some of its symptoms, especially for some elderly people. The chance of developing this type of disease is very high, so you must pay more attention. Let us take a brief look at it below!

The brain is located inside the skull. Intracranial tumors are divided into two categories: primary and secondary. Primary brain tumors account for 80-90% of primary tumors of the central nervous system. Intraspinal tumors account for 10-20%. Primary intracranial tumors originate from the brain, meninges, cranial nerves, blood vessels, embryonic remnants, pituitary gland, etc.; secondary ones include metastatic tumors and invasive tumors. Brain tumors can occur at any age. Most brain tumors in adults are gliomas, meningiomas, pituitary adenomas, metastatic tumors, and acoustic neuromas. In children, most of the diseases are astrocytomas in the cerebellum, medulloblastomas in the midline of the cerebellum, ependymomas in the fourth ventricle, and craniopharyngiomas in the sella turcica.

Early symptoms of brain tumors:

1. Diplopia. That is, the images formed by the two eyes cannot overlap, and any object appears as double. Initially, diplopia only occurs when the eyes are looking in a certain direction. Later, it may develop to occur in any direction. Finally, when the positions of the eyeballs on both sides are significantly asymmetrical, the diplopia may be alleviated or even disappear.

2. Visual field loss. It usually presents as bitemporal hemianopsia, which can impede the patient's behavior in severe cases.

3. One eye is bulging. That is, one eyeball protrudes forward, which may cause incomplete closure of the facial fissure in severe cases. 50% of cases of unilateral eye proptosis are caused by intracranial diseases, the most common cause of which is brain tumor.

4. Unilateral deafness. If a middle-aged person has no history of otitis media or trauma, but only has progressive hearing loss in one ear, with or without tinnitus on the same side, it is mostly caused by a tumor compressing the auditory nerve.

5. Headache. The nature of the headache is usually quite severe, often occurring in the early morning, and sometimes waking the patient up from sleep with pain. However, the headache will gradually ease or disappear after getting up and doing some light activity.

6. Vomiting. Due to the increase in intracranial pressure, the respiratory center in the medulla oblongata is stimulated, resulting in vomiting. Vomiting often occurs after a headache and is in the form of a jet.

7. Mental disorder. Brain tumors located in the frontal lobe of the brain can destroy the mental activities of the frontal lobe, causing abnormal mental manifestations such as excitement, agitation, depression, repression, amnesia, and fabrication.

8. Late-onset epilepsy. For patients who begin to develop the disease after adulthood, if there is no trauma or other predisposing factors, intracranial tumors should be considered first. If seizures are limited to one side or begin in one limb, a brain tumor should be considered in both adults and children.

9. Hemiplegia. It includes two different situations. One is hemiplegia or hemiplegia, which is characterized by less movement or immobility of the affected limbs. The other is unilateral limb ataxia, which is characterized by clumsy or unstable movements. If these two symptoms appear slowly and gradually worsen, they may be signs of a brain tumor. The former is more common in cerebral hemisphere tumors, while the latter is a unique sign of cerebellar hemisphere tumors.

The brain controls the functioning of our entire body, so if the brain is damaged it will have a huge impact on the health of our entire body. Friends, you must protect it. We should maintain a happy mood and not worry too much, otherwise it will increase the burden on our brain, which is very bad for our brain.