Here are three things to know.
1. The patient, who also suffered from chronic headaches that greatly impaired her sleep, had been diagnosed with allergies. Her symptoms began after a 2013 car crash in which her face hit the dashboard.
2. In March, Carla Schneider, PA, diagnosed the patient with a CSF leak at Nebraska Medicine. She was losing half a liter of CSF a day.
3. According to the CSF Leak Association, the leaks affect at least 5 in 100,000 people each year.
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