For most children with recessive spina bifida, it will not cause obvious symptoms. For asymptomatic children with spina bifida occulta, there is no need to intervene by surgery or other treatment methods. However, some children with spina bifida occulta will have long-term enuresis, especially when they are five or six years old. At this time, we need to consider surgical intervention for children with spina bifida occulta.
Dominant spina bifida can cause motor dysfunction of lower limbs, accompanied by sensory abnormalities. In severe cases, there may even be unequal length of both lower limbs, accompanied by muscle atrophy. Mainly divided into the following types:
1, meningocele
Meningocele is more common in lumbosacral region. After the illness, patients may gradually develop symptoms such as dysfunction of urination and defecation, dysfunction or deformity of lower limbs, and long "small tail" on the back. And as the child grows and develops, the symptoms become more and more serious.
2. Spinal meningocele
The symptoms of patients with meningocele are mainly a soft mass found in the lumbosacral region, the back of the neck or the midline of the back after birth, which gradually increases when crying and the tension of the mass increases, and the lower limbs are deformed, incontinence, enlarged head and mental retardation.
3, myelocele
Meningocele, also known as spina bifida or spina bifida, has cystic masses in the corresponding parts; Sometimes it is scar-like; The broken surface has granulation or infection; In the case of rupture, cerebrospinal fluid flows from the surface of the mass.