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Intracranial hypertension (IH) is a build-up of pressure around the brain.

It can happen suddenly, for example, as the result of a severe head injury, stroke or ruptured brain aneurysm.

It can be caused by a condition that affects your brain, such as a brain abscess, brain tumour, meningitis or encephalitis.

IH can also develop as a complication of another condition such as high blood pressure.

Treatment for these types of IH depends on the cause.

Sometimes though there is no obvious reason why pressure builds up around the brain.

Build-up of pressure with no known cause is known as idiopathic intracranial hypertension.

This page is about idiopathic intracranial hypertension.

Symptoms of intracranial hypertension (IH) can include:

a constant throbbing headache which may be worse in the morning, or when coughing or straining; it may improve when standing up
temporary loss of vision – your vision may become dark or "greyed out" for a few seconds at a time; this can be triggered by coughing, sneezing or ben