Posted on 05/07/2018 4:20:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin
At first, doctors just said that a Nebraska woman's runny nose was caused by allergies, plain and simple. But the woman, Kendra Jackson, knew it had to be something else.
In 2013, Jackson was in a car accident, and she hit her face on the dashboard, according to KETV-7 ABC. Several years after that, her symptoms started: an endless runny nose, painful headaches and trouble sleeping.
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It wasn't until Jackson saw an ear, nose and throat specialist at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha that she learned her runny nose wasn't from allergies, but in fact cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaking from her brain. Doctors told Jackson that she was losing about 8 ounces (237 milliliters) of fluid a day. (The brain produces roughly 17 ounces [503 mL] of CSF a day, Live Science previously reported.)
CSF is a clear liquid that flows between the brain and its outer covering, and between the spinal cord and its outer covering. The fluid cushions the brain and spinal cord, and helps clear waste from the brain. The clear fluid, if it leaks from a nostril or down a person's throat, can have a metallic taste, Live Science reported in 2015.
Though brain fluid leaking out of your nose certainly sounds alarming, people may have the condition, known medically as CSF rhinorrhea, for years before serious problems emerge, according to the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai. One such complication is bacterial meningitis, a serious infection that causes inflammation of the meninges, or the lining of the brain and spinal cord.
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This type of thing is not unheard of...
At least not at the dinner hour.
At least she aint leaking on both ends.
Reminds me of a story:
Obama rushes to the doctor with a very unusual and distressing condition. It seems that his face, head and shoulders had turned completely white.
The doctor makes a quick diagnosis, runs into a back room and comes out with a beaker of a foul-smelling brown liquid.
“Quick,” says the doctor, “drink this!”
Obama complies, and immediately starts coughing, sputtering, and retching.
“This tastes like Bullshit!!!!” he exclaims.
“It is,” says the doc. “You were a quart low.”
When I was 13 or 14 two teenage boys in my town were killed when they crashed their Pontiac GTO at high speed. The report from rescue workers on th scene was that one of them had spinal fluid coming out of his nose. That really creeped me out to the point where I never had the urge to speed like that, even in my first car, a used. ‘68 Buick GS 400.
How often do I need to change my brain fluid?
She didn’t get the email about seat belts....in 1954?
This can be very dangerous. If the leakage is too much it can cause severe, severe headache. It has even been reported to result in the herniation of the brainstem....killing the patient. It sounds like a LeFort 1 fracture of the basilar. Hope she does well.
Honey- your kisses taste funny. But I always feel smarter after we kiss.
This reminds me of an episode of Mystery Diagnosis. A man was leaking fluid and it turned out it was brain fluid and part of his brain was coming out of his ear.
+2.
Not uncommon after trauma. There’s a significant risk of ascending meningitis/encephalitis. I remember a case in which a ‘nasal polyp’ was biopsied, and the pathology came back as ‘normal brain’ (true story).
I know someone who had that problem from an injury.
The doctors were very concerned about it.
Yep probably.
Kinda 2 parts to skull, the part that holds the brain and the part that makes the face. You crack the bottom of the skull part that houses the brain you can have leakage of spinal fluid into the sinuses or into the ear.
Severe headaches and also a chance for bacterial meningitis.
I’ve had 3 concussions as a kid. The last one was so bad my brain had swollen to the point it was starting to push out the hole in the bottom of my skull (I was vomiting across the room) and the I lost my central vision for about a 1/2 hr. (The artery supplying the blood to the vision part of my brain was cut off.)
And the school nurses sent me home!!
Football players are wimps compared to the 14 y.o. girl!! LOL!
Oh Lordy and then some!!! Bet that woke the doc up!!
I knew this would be a bad thread to go into...I just knew it!
Yeah. I work in medicine and have had bit to do with things human...back in the day, we would inject radioactive isotopes into the spinal fluid at the base of the back, and take pictures of the isotope as it slowly circulated up the spinal canal and into the ventricles of the brain.
We had another exam we would do where you would manually create some radioactive eyedrops and drop them into someone’s eyes, to follow the isotope as it drained into the sinuses so you could check if the tear ducts were blocked.
We used to make radioactive eggs and toast for a patient to eat, and would take pictures over time to see how well their stomach emptied.
The worst one was making orange juice radioactive and extra acidy by adding hydrochloric acid to make sure the valve in the stomach would stay shut (if it is too acid, it won’t open and you get reflux into your esophagus.
But wait...it gets even odder-you now have the poor patient lying on their back, their stomach really full of acidy radioactive orange juice and the gamma camera that sees the radioactive isotope on top of it all looking down. To top it off, you have bound their abdomen with a large elastic corset with a blood pressure cuff between the corset and the patient’s abdomen, which you then...yes...proceed to pump up.
Pump it up 10 mmHg, take a picture. Inflate another 10 mmHg, take a picture. Keep pumping it up until you see the radioactive orange juice begin to leak the wrong way back up into the esophagus. Then you are done. It gives you an idea how the patient’s digestive systems are functioning...or not.
In my career, I did this test...just once. Once.
Worst. Test. Ever.
#ThinkExplodingYakOfRadioactiveAcidyOrangeJuiceCoveringSquareYardsPlusYourFace
Never mind the poor patient who submitted to it, I felt bad enough for them. My clothes had to spend a few days in a bag under a lead lined sink and cabinet (including underwear and shoes) and we couldn’t use the camera for days until the radioactivity died down.
I told them after I didn’t want to do any more of those tests...and they never scheduled one again!
Glad to see you are doing fine now. Good luck.
Sorry I got off track...anyway, that was a sweet ride, your first car there.
We are lucky. Kids are just dumb kids, for the most part. Some are blessed with uncommon sense and maturity, but most of us have to bungle our way through without killing ourselves.
And some of us don’t make it.
I can see where that would creep you out...same reason they had us watch things like “Wheels of Tragedy” or some such thing to scare a little caution into you.
They did the same thing in the military. And seeing that film had a little effect on all of us, and not in a bad way. A lot of young military guys are just big kids, and prone to doing things kids would do, just on a bigger scale, which could get you killed.
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