The risks of draining spinal fluids into stomach?
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Death man. Bad chit losin spinal fluid.
I was told by doctors when I went thru a breaking my neck that if I had lost spinal fluid I would have died when it got in my system. How r U goin 2 get it in Ur stomach?
Good luck
need more info please - are you talking about a shunt system to relieve pressure along the spinal column or brain?
I answered your post to me but thought I would post here as well.
There is no concern of spinal fluid being drained into the stomach.
The stomach will pass it through the kidneys which then passes it as waste (urine).
That of course is the point.
Drainage is generally for two reasons--to relieve pressure or to drain an injury/surgical site of possible contaminated fluid that could cause an infection.
PS--you will not die from fluid drained into your stomach.
There are no risks of draining spinal fluid into the abdomen. (I assume you mean abdomen, and not really into the stomach itself). It is done all the time to relieve pressure on the brain. The fluid is sterile as is the inside of the abdomen. It gets reabsorbed across the abdominal wall, and passes out of your body without any trouble.
You are talking about a shunt (ventriculo peritoneal) because of hydrocephalia, or any other condition that rises the pressure of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain-..
There is a valve (either half shpere or Pudenz type, or a cylindric type or Holter valve), that tells you wheter the shunt or derivation is working or not.
Risks are:Infection of the abdominal wound (the head burr hole very, very rarely gets infected), and the drainage of the CSF is not properly to the stomach, but to the `peritoneum cavity. (the covering of the organs inside of the abdomen), the risk is peritonitis if there is an infection along the catheter that carries the fluid frome the head, to the peritoneal cavity (not the stomach proper)...
The main risk after the infection (which is indeed, rare), is the obstruction of the valve, that is suspected when there is headache, vomiting, blurred vision, and clumsy gait..
The golden rule, is, get checked by the neurosurgeon every time you have your appointment
There is no danger in draining fluid from the brain to the peritoneum, as it is, unless an infections complicates the picture..or an obstruction comes to complicate it.otherwise, with a working valve, its quite safe...
Good luck
dont be a guineapig
Dear friend if you have ventriculo peritoneal shunt than you must careful about peritoneal infection, displacement of shunt, blockage of shunt, electrolyte imbalance.
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