What are the symptoms of Neural Tube Defects? I Dr. Tanushri Mukherjee I Cloudnine Hospital

The symptoms of the neural tube defect depends on the severity of the disease. If my baby is having anencephaly, most of the times the baby is not born alive. So those are the very severe form of neural tube defect. But luckily most of the time what we seek is a spina bifida. In spina bifida there is a defect in the vertebral column and depending on the level of the defect, the baby will present with multiple symptoms. It can be paralysis of the whole upper limb and lower limb. Because it is affecting the nerve tissue, the baby can have some urinary complaint or stool retention or incontinence of stool. If the lesion is higher up, it can lead to deafness, blindness, as well as it can lead to some developmental delay. Sometimes spina bifida patient can have urinary tract infection because of the urinary incontinence they can have multiple urinary tract infections and that can lead to damage of the kidneys.

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