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A woman suffers from a strange disease, cerebrospinal fluid flows out of her nostrils

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A woman suffers from a strange disease, cerebrospinal fluid flows out of her nostrils A woman in Honshu has been experiencing a large amount of fluid gushing out of her nostrils for more than 4 months, and the doctor just prescribed...

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A woman suffers from a strange disease, cerebrospinal fluid flows out of her nostrils A woman in this state had a large amount of fluid gushing out of her nostrils for more than 4 months. Doctors initially thought she was just suffering from a mild allergy. After careful examination, they discovered that the transparent, colorless and odorless fluid was the woman's cerebrospinal fluid. The 35-year-old woman's name is Andrea?#38463; Ragone, a mother of three girls. In the past four months, whenever she looked down or bent down, a large amount of colorless and odorless transparent liquid would gush out of her left nostril. After involuntarily swallowing this liquid, you may experience pain in your ribs. At first, the doctor told Aragon that it was just an allergy symptom, but Aragon knew something was wrong. After she was later examined at the UA College of Medicine Hospital in Tucson, doctors determined that there were two cracks in the back of her sphenoid sinus (one of four pairs of bony cavities that contain air around the nasal cavity), and that cerebrospinal fluid in her brain was leaking from these two cracks. Doctors said that cerebrospinal fluid leakage is rare, usually only 1 in 100,000-200,000 people. Patients generally have high intracranial pressure due to being overweight. In addition, a car accident or brain injury may cause cerebrospinal fluid leakage. But the danger is not the loss of Aragon's cerebrospinal fluid, because the human body will continue to produce cerebrospinal fluid, and when the cleanest brain of the human body is connected to the dirtiest nose of the human body, fatal infections may occur. Fortunately, Aragon had surgery to fill two tears in his sphenoid sinus before the fatal infection developed.

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