Baby brain bleeding in very dangerous because it can cause disability later. Doctors in the UK using brainwashing techniques or brain washing to minimize the damage.Two doctors in the UK using the technique of 'brain washing' to pump and remove toxic products due to bleeding that can minimize the damage. Toxic liquid contained in the brain can produce pressure which can poison the brain and the skull deforms.
This technique has been done on Isaac Walker-Cox, who was born prematurely at 13 weeks of age and have the problem of bleeding due to rupture of blood vessels in the brain that cause the condition hydrocephalus (enlarged head) and is often fatal.
Nine years later, Isaac has grown rapidly over the average that is able to read well and have little paralysis on his left part of body.
"Earlier the doctors said that he will experience physical and mental disabilities are severe, but now it is not proven. He did not have any mental disability, can be a normal school and had experienced a physical disability does not inhibit the activity at all," said Steven, the father, as quoted from the TimesOnline.
"Premature babies are at risk of bleeding, because in the middle of pregnancy the fetus has many fragile blood vessels in the brain. With this technique is expected to further increase the number of premature babies can survive due to a brain hemorrhage," said Andrew Whitelaw, professor of neonatal medicine at the University of Bristol.
Some children who experience bleeding in the brain resulting hydrocephalus conditions or enlarged heads. The standard treatment is done by inserting needles into his head to remove fluid, but the treatment is not too successful.
With technical 'brain washing', a baby who suffered a brain hemorrhage and anesthesia was given two tubes inserted into the brain ventricles. A tube used to drain fluid that is full of toxins due to bleeding, and the other tube to enter the same artificial fluid.
By allowing the flow of fluid loss (fluid) in it, so doctors have to reduce the existing pressure to allow the healing process. Usually after three days of the tube can be removed.
In this study involving 77 preterm infants who received treatment for a brain bleed, with 38 babies undergoing treatment while the standard technique of 39 infants undergoing 'brain washing'. Obtained about 71 percent of babies who undergo standard treatment had died or suffered severe disability, whereas the new technique for only 54 percent.
"This is the first time a treatment has been shown to have benefits to the baby," says Whitelaw.
Expected technical 'brain washing' it will be widely applied as a treatment for conditions such as bleeding in the brain of a stroke in adults.