The consequences of spina bifida
- Spina-bifida occulta: meningitis repeated, motor disorders, slight loss of sensitivity, urinary incontinence (involuntary urine loss), colon disorders.
- Myelomeningocele spina bifida: more or less severe paralysis, great loss of sensitivity in the legs, fecal and urinary incontinence, hydrocephalus (increase in the volume of spaces that contain cerebrospinal fluid), damage to the lumbar vertebrae, motor and mental disorders , deformation of the feet and / or legs, bedsores.
- Meningocele spina bifida: mild or similar disorders of a spina bifida occulta.