What causes brain edema and convulsions?

Disease is a factor that affects people's health. Most diseases can have devastating effects on people's bodies. Among them, brain diseases have the greatest impact. For example, cerebral edema is a common disease among middle-aged and elderly people, which can threaten their lives at any time. There are many associated symptoms of cerebral edema, among which, what are the causes of convulsions caused by cerebral edema? Let’s take a look at the explanation below.

Why does cerebral edema cause convulsions?

The symptoms of cerebral edema are generally epilepsy, headache, fever, high intracranial pressure, etc. It is recommended that you go to the hospital's neurosurgery department for examination and treatment. Cerebral edema refers to a pathological phenomenon in which the water content in the brain increases, leading to an increase in brain volume. It is the response of the brain tissue to various pathogenic factors. It can cause intracranial hypertension and damage brain tissue. It is common in clinical neurological diseases such as craniocerebral trauma, intracranial infection (encephalitis, meningitis, etc.), cerebrovascular disease, intracranial space-occupying diseases (such as tumors), epileptic seizures, etc.

Cerebral edema refers to a pathological phenomenon in which the water content in the brain increases, leading to an increase in brain volume. It is the response of the brain tissue to various pathogenic factors. It can cause intracranial hypertension and damage brain tissue. It is common in clinical practice in neurological diseases such as craniocerebral trauma, intracranial infection (encephalitis, meningitis, etc.), cerebrovascular disease, intracranial space-occupying diseases (such as tumors), epileptic seizures, and systemic diseases such as toxic dysentery and severe pneumonia.

Cerebral edema, in medical terms, refers to the addition of excess water in our brain, which causes the patient's brain volume to increase. In fact, there are many reasons that cause patients to become ill, including intracranial infections, tumors and other diseases, which can cause cerebral edema in patients.

Symptoms of cerebral edema

The brain is one of the most important organs in our body. Once it suffers from a disease, it will definitely have many impacts. First of all, it will cause damage to the brain. When our brain is damaged, some paralysis symptoms will appear or it will also affect our language motor center. Moreover, these symptoms will gradually worsen as cerebral edema spreads. Secondly, there will be some symptoms of headache and coma. If the cerebral edema is more serious, the patient's vital signs will weaken and coma will occur.