Fluids Hypertension Syndromes: Migraines, Headaches, Normal ...
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<strong>Fluids</strong> <strong>Hypertension</strong> <strong>Syndromes</strong> – Dr. Leonardo Izecksohn – page 197<br />
XIII- h - Cerebrospinal Fluid <strong>Hypertension</strong> squeezing the 7 th cranial nerve: Bell palsy (Peripheral<br />
Facial Palsy): The acute squeeze of the Facial nerve (seventh cranial nerve) presents with sudden peripheral<br />
hemi-facial palsy at morning (Bell palsy). Its pathophysiology is similar to that of the NAION<br />
described above: The cerebrospinal fluid higher pressure and the caffeine cause the 7 th nerve edema; as<br />
the nerve pass by a bone's canal, the rigid bone cranial foramen strangles the nerve, the pressure in the<br />
canal surpasses the arterial pressure, and the ischemia causes the infarction of the nerve. We knew their<br />
etiologies, by asking to the patients about their drinks the nights before the palsies.<br />
It is possible that some peripheral facial (7 th . Cranial nerve) palsy be consequent to the cold exposure<br />
at night, or the cold can be only a trigger in a caffeinated patient. We could not clarify this.<br />
Bell palsy caused by caffeine and excessive water: We had a 32-year-old man, weighting 160 Kilograms<br />
(352 pounds), drinking beer and plenty of water daily, added by coffee, mate and tea. He only<br />
complained of small photophobia. His eyes were normal On the examination, with intraocular pressures<br />
of 18 mmHg in both eyes, and the Optic Nerves shown no cups and a little borders edema of 0.25<br />
diopters, classified as 0/0/0/0.25. We prescribed him to stop drinking beer, coffee, mate and tea, and reducing<br />
the water drank, but without being obeyed.<br />
After two years, he returned presenting peripheral left facial palsy, and his Optic Nerves show<br />
0/0/0/0.5 and 0/0/0/0.75 right and left eyes (cup diameter/ cup depth/ lamina Cribosa’s pores visibility/<br />
borders edema), which is typical of the Cerebrospinal Fluid <strong>Hypertension</strong>.<br />
After more one year, with medication and diet to weight-loss, he presented with only 135 Kilograms<br />
(297 pounds), drinking 5,500 milliliters of water, coffee 1,000 milliliter and tea 1,000 milliliter daily.<br />
His Optic Nerves show 0/0/0/1 in both eyes. This is a dangerous situation, and unless he reduces his<br />
drinking habits, he is prone to present more anyone of the many sicknesses consequent to the<br />
Cerebrospinal Fluid <strong>Hypertension</strong> Syndrome.<br />
“Allergic” rhinitis and tearfulness: The chronic compression of the Facial nerve (seventh cranial<br />
nerve) by the Cerebrospinal Fluid is one of the etiologies of the tearfulness we frequently found on our<br />
migraine patients, as a migraine variant. It can be also the etiology of some “allergic” rhinitis. Other<br />
etiologies of “allergic” rhinitis, are:<br />
A- Rhinitis with coryza, secondary to the tearfulness caused by the Ocular <strong>Hypertension</strong>, as a neural<br />
reflex.<br />
B- Rhinitis without coryza, caused by the Cerebrospinal Fluid <strong>Hypertension</strong> stretching the Olfactory<br />
nerve (the first cranial nerve) at the Ethmoid's lamina cribosa.<br />
Dry eye syndrome: The definitive damage of part of the seventh cranial nerve caused by the<br />
Cerebrospinal Fluid <strong>Hypertension</strong> can cause definitive tears reduction and consequent real Dry eye<br />
syndrome.<br />
<strong>Migraines</strong>, facial palsy, beer, excessive water and caffeine: We had a 48-year-old white man, 1.78<br />
meters (5 feet and 10 inches) tall, 80 Kilograms (176 pounds). For more than the last 10 years, he used<br />
to drink daily 300 milliliter of coffee, 600 milliliter (20 fluid ounces) of cola soft drink and 4.500 milliliter<br />
(more than a gallon) of water. He also used medication for arterial hypertension. His father had<br />
Glaucoma. He felt chronic Maxillary aches classified as “sinusitis” and sometimes nasal obstruction.<br />
Suddenly, he woke with inferior left facial palsy. After one week, on the examination we found Optic<br />
Nerves’ disks edemas of one diopter and without any cup in both eyes, which we classified as 0/0/0/1.<br />
His intraocular pressures were 30 and 28 mmHg right and left eyes, which are high. With these high<br />
intraocular pressures, any “normal” person should be presenting increased cups in his Optic Disks.<br />
The fact that he presents no cups, but on contrary, he has disks edemas, is the evidence that his<br />
Cerebrospinal Fluid pressure is bigger than these pathological high intraocular pressures. This is the<br />
Pseudotumor cerebri (Benign Intracranial <strong>Hypertension</strong>) added with the Bell palsy, consequent to the<br />
Cerebrospinal Fluid <strong>Hypertension</strong> Syndrome, caused simultaneously by heredity, caffeine, excessive<br />
water and beer drank daily.<br />
Remarkably was the endurance of all his nerves to this Cerebrospinal fluid hypertension for more