Journal article
Treatment of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypotension With Tea: A Case Report
Iranian red crescent medical journal, Vol.18(6), pp.e24620-4
06/01/2016
DOI: 10.5812/ircmj.24620
PMCID: PMC5002997
PMID: 27621920
Abstract
The syndrome of spontaneous intracranial hypotension has been increasingly diagnosed since its discovery through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It is a rare syndrome that is due to the leakage of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from a tear in the dura and can occur at any age, even among adolescents, but is most frequently seen among females in late middle age.
Here, we describe a 32-year-old woman with a two-month history of headaches and occasional nausea and vomiting (N/V). MRI without gadolinium was normal, but meningeal enhancement was seen in MRI with gadolinium. The lumbar puncture revealed a low opening pressure. Computed tomography myelography (CT myelography) showed no leakage; Therefore, idiopathic intracranial hypotension was diagnosed. Treatment was started using tea, and the patient's headache got significantly better in about a day.
Conservative therapy, such as bed rest and caffeine treatment with eight cups of tea daily, yielded a significant improvement in our patient. Effectively, the patient constitutes a case of idiopathic intracranial hypotension due to undetectable CSF leakage or hyper-absorption, with good response to conservative management through tea-drinking. Further investigations with an appropriate sample size are needed in order to confirm this intervention in the treatment of idiopathic intracranial hypotension.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Treatment of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypotension With Tea: A Case Report
- Creators
- Peyman Petramfar - Shiraz University of Medical SciencesS Saeed Mohammadi - Shiraz University of Medical SciencesFarideh Hosseinzadeh - Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Iranian red crescent medical journal, Vol.18(6), pp.e24620-4
- DOI
- 10.5812/ircmj.24620
- PMID
- 27621920
- PMCID
- PMC5002997
- NLM abbreviation
- Iran Red Crescent Med J
- ISSN
- 2074-1804
- eISSN
- 2074-1812
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Neurology
- Record Identifier
- 9985013729802771
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