What are the sequelae of lumbar puncture?

The sequelae of lumbar puncture, as the name suggests, are the sequelae left by the lumbar puncture, which can also be called complications. It should be understood that the full name of lumbar puncture is called lumbar puncture. The main purpose is to obtain some cerebrospinal fluid in the spinal canal for testing. It is a test that is often used by neurologists to determine whether there is a disease such as inflammation or demyelination of the nervous system.

Because during lumbar puncture, it is necessary to extract cerebrospinal fluid from the subarachnoid space. After receiving lumbar puncture, the patient usually feels relatively obvious pain in the puncture area. Generally, this pain will gradually disappear after the patient recovers for a period of time.

Most patients after a lumbar puncture report having a headache after a lumbar puncture. Generally, this kind of headache is caused by the doctor taking some cerebrospinal fluid during the puncture process, resulting in a temporary decrease in the pressure of the cerebrospinal fluid. The characteristic of this kind of headache is that the patient will be relieved or even disappeared when the patient is lying down, and the patient will sit up or stand up. When the headache gets worse. In this case, you can drink more water, and it will gradually disappear within 1-2 days, so there is no need to panic, but if you have a long-term headache, you may need to go to the hospital in time to check whether there is a nervous system disease.

Another representative sequelae of lumbar puncture is the injury of the cauda equina. It is believed that most people know relatively little about the cauda equina. The cauda equina nerve is composed of 10 pairs of nerve roots from L2-5, S1-5 and caudal ganglia. But it does not mean that the cauda equina nerve starts from L2. The cauda equina nerve is connected to the spinal nerve at the position of the L1 conus medullaris. Therefore, after the above nerves are damaged and there is a problem, the cauda equina nerve is equally likely to suffer.

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