Numbness in the limbs

Numbness in the limbs's disease overview

What is

What is numbness in the limbs?

normal limbs will rely on the feeling to adjust activities such as drawing limbs when touching hot objects, adjusting when the terrain changes. If you have numbness in the limbs, it will reduce the feeling and even more energetic can cause completely loss of sensation.

This condition may trigger very gentle as numb at the fingers, feeling like being stinging at the tip of the finger or reducing sensation. These symptoms may be worse, spreading on the hands, wrists, forearms, arms ... and can go to the loss of sensation. numbness in pregnancy, numbness in the elderly is a very common condition in the community. The condition may be temporary or a symptom of other pathology.

Causes of Numbness in the limbs's disease

According to the results of the research from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NinDS), the numbness of the limbs accompanied by painful osteoarthritis pain due to many different causes.

Of which, more than 75% of hands and feet are caused by the following dangerous disease:

Spinal degeneration: Spinal degeneration causes articular cartilage, vertebrae to be eroded, rubbing with nerve roots, causing pain, numbness The back of the leg. The phenomenon of numbness in degeneration often occurs at night or when changing the weather.

Disc herniated disc: herniated disc is the common cause of numbness in the limbs. This is a common disease in the cervical and waist disc. When the disc spill out of the disc bag, the spinal nerve is pinched with the arms of the arm and the legs, limiting the body movement.

Osteoarthritis: joints, knee joints or hip joints are worn out, damage caused by negative factors will limit movement and lead to numbness of the arm, table, table foot.

Rheumatoid arthritis: The condition of the joints, the joints of inflammation, damage will cause numbness in the limbs. This symptom is more common after Lying, sitting for too long at a position and accompanied by stiffness.

Spinal stenosis: This is a form of congenital disease, the spine is deformed, shrink, causing the nerve roots to pass through to be pinched and anesthetized for the limbs. The disease for a long time will cause obstruction of blood circulation, difficult movement

Multi -sclerosis: This is an autoimmune disorder and directly affects the central nervous system, causing myelin -wrapped membranes to lead to numbness, muscle spasms, fatigue tired.

Meomoliditis: Pathological occurs when peripheral nervous system damage causes sensory disorders and limiting movement.

Atherosclerosis: atherosclerosis causes narrowing of the artery, compression of nerves running through and leading to numbness in the limbs.

Causes of injury: Accidents, collisions, falls that cause peripheral nerves to damage also anesthetize limbs, limit movement.

Physiological limbs, encountered in the following cases:

blood vessels and nerves are pinched, making blood difficult to circulate: postpartum numbness in birth or by sitting, standing, sleeping in the wrong posture, maintaining a posture for too long, tuberculosis Heavy dynamic, continuous computer sitting, driving for hours ...

Working posture: carrying heavy objects, sitting, standing for too long in a posture, lazy to exercise and often sitting under the air conditioner will damage nerves. Since then anesthetic limbs.

Wrong posture: Sleeping, lying too high, constantly using high heels, ... will make the limbs numb.

Weather impact: Some people who encounter cold will have sensory disorders, numbness.

stress, fatigue: Stress, fatigue stimulates nerve cells near the surface of the skin numbness and numbness in the limbs .

Hand numbness may be the result of side effects when taking some drugs.

Early detect the cause of numbness in the limbs helps limit complications, improve the effectiveness of healing and recurrent preventive prevention.

Symptoms of Numbness in the limbs's disease

The neck and neck pain spread to half of the body with symptoms of numbness on one side

Numbness /Perseverance face in the arm spread to 4/5 fingers, for example, when lying for a long time /Leave the limbs at a fixed position for a certain period of time Cow ants

The hot, hot limb of polyneuropathy in diabetes, multi -root lesion disease

Losing limbs: The prolonged numbness will cause the arms and legs to lose the feeling, the most common at night.

Numbness spread along the arms and legs: numbness to the end of arms, ankles, lower legs and limit movement

Painful diseases of the toned/Peracental Calcium/Potici syndrome in the hidden blood calcium syndrome

The central numbness is accompanied by changes in sensory, reflexes and nerve damage

Cramps in the limbs: Sudden spasms cause dull aches and pains of biceps, calves.

When the patient has symptoms of numbness in the foot with the following signs, you need to see a doctor immediately:

Legs lasting for a long time continuously over 6 weeks

The feet are accompanied by any other chronic symptoms

Performed legs with changes in color, shape or temperature of the foot and foot

Dizziness

loss of bladder and intestines

Paralysis occurs after a head injury

Severe headache

Difficulty breathing

Convulsions

Prevention of Numbness in the limbs's disease

Some methods that can help prevent numbness such as:

Strengthen exercise, regular exercise for healthy, tough body

For people who have numbness in the limbs, can be soaked in hot water with salt mixed to help circulate blood well, hold the hand to spread strongly straight hands and arms, Use your left hand to massage your right hand and vice versa.

Balanced diet, supplement vitamins and minerals

Avoid working too hard with hard work, working for many hours in front of computers or squatting for too long, leading to difficult blood vessels to circulate limbs. >

Limit drinking a lot of alcohol, no smoking, in the winter, you can use hot compresses in the limbs to reduce aches and pains

Diagnostic measures for Numbness in the limbs's disease

After asking for medical history, history and clinical examination, the doctor will request a number of tests such as:

Electromechanical to measure the level of muscle

MRI resonance imaging

CT scanning comparison

X-ray

Numbness in the limbs's disease treatments

Depending on the cause of the disease, using the appropriate treatment. In general, physiological limbs do not need treatment only need to apply a number of supportive and prevention measures such as increasing sports and sports, massage to relax limbs.

Most cases of numbness in the limbs repeated many times, prolonged or due to pathology, should be treated early and promptly to avoid bad complications.

Symptomatic treatment:

Medicines to treat long -term numbness include:

Antidepressant drugs: Group of pipes treatment due to muscle pain

Corticosteroid drugs: inflammatory drugs, reduced feet due to multiple sclerosis (MS).

Gabapentin and Pregabalin: The drug contributes to prevent and reduce the numbness due to fibrosis, multiple sclerosis, diabetes.

Treatment of the cause of physiological causes: The home remedy when numbness includes:

Avoid sitting a lot, standing for a long time: Note: Note Do not bend to lift heavy objects or squatting, tight sandals, not cold limbs.

Rest: Reduce numbness due to pinched nerves

cold compresses. Apply cold on the feet and feet for 15 minutes/day may reduce swelling, reduce numbness due to pinched nerves.

hot compresses. People with numbness due to pinched nerves may also apply heat.

Massage legs and feet helps improve blood flow and can reduce the symptoms of numbness.

Exercise. Exercises such as yoga, pilates, and aerobic can promote blood flow and reduce inflammation, pain, and reduced numbness.

Epsom salt bath. To reduce the numbness of the patient can bathe in the magne containing magnesium saline to help increase blood flow and circulation.

get enough sleep. People with numbness may be due to lack of sleep, so they need enough sleep.

Healthy diet: Eat enough nutrients, supplement essential vitamins and minerals to enhance resistance and prevent inflammation such as: Group vitamins B, vitamin C, glucosamine, ... Especially, vitamin C and protein help produce collagen to enhance skin elasticity, stability of the vascular wall, prevent atherosclerosis. Due to the pathological cause of

for numbness in the limbs due to pathology, it is necessary to thoroughly treat the cause of the problem. For example:

Diabetes: Need to control blood sugar well by taking medicine, maintaining a scientific diet and daily exercise.

Vitamin deficiency: vitamin supplements.

Poisoning: Treatment of poisoning

Blood lipid metabolism disorders: Safe lipid control

Treatment of spinal degenerative diseases, arthritis

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