What it's like to have a nervous attack

Currently, the rate of people suffering from neuropathic disease is increasing. This disease not only seriously affects the health, but also affects the quality of life of the patient.

1. What is neuropath pain?

Usually, when your hands touch too close to the fire, the nerves send a signal to the brain and tell you the burning sensation. However, when you have neurological pain, the nerves will be damaged and not working effectively, leading to the transmission of false signals to the brain, causing you to lose pain when you are traumatised.

Neuropathic pain in each person manifests it in different ways. For some people, the disease usually occurs in the middle of the night accompanied by throbbing pain. For others may appear symptoms such as stinging, tingling or burning throughout the day.

2. Causes of neuropathic pain

Neuropathy is derived from a variety of causes, including:

  • Diabetes: more than half of people with diabetes experience neurological damage that causes nerve pain.
  • Peripheral neuropathic pain: the result of aging leads to some damaged nerves.
  • Trauma: also one of the main causes of neuropathic pain. Some head injuries can strain, jam, or rupture nerves.
  • Cancer: patients who are in the process of treating cancer with methods such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy can damage the nerves.
  • Neuroblastitis: includes diseases such as Lou Gehrig or sclerosis on the side of muscle atrophy. These types of diseases can gradually affect and damage the nerves.
  • Autoiectic diseases: include Guillain-Barré syndrome, multiple sclerosis, lupus, myalniania or inflammatory bowel disease. These conditions can attack nerves and cause neurological pain.
  • Infectious diseases: including Herpes virus, Lyme disease, hepatitis C or HIV.
  • Use of drugs or exposure to toxic substances: drugs used to treat cancer and HIV, or exposure to toxic substances to the body such as lead, mercury, arsenic can also cause nerves to damage.

Lack of nutrients: when the body is not adequately supplemented with essential nutrients, especially vitamin B12 or vitamin B6 can also lead to neuropathic pain

Expert nutrition

Lack of nutrition is one of the causes of neuropathic pain

3. Factors that increase the risk of neurological pain

Neuropathy can occur for all ages, however some underlying factors can increase the risk of this disease, namely:

  • Gender: women are more likely to suffer from neuropath pain than men
  • The higher the age, the higher the risk of disease
  • Someone in the family has a neurological disease.
  • Has suffered nerve damage before
  • Work characteristics: people who regularly do limbs work, or heavy work
  • Regularly play sports with a high degree of collision

4. Signs and symptoms of neuropathical pain

The signs and symptoms of neuropathic pain often manifest very diversely. Depending on the location and type of damaged nerves, the symptoms will vary in each person.

Autonomical nerve pain: Will make the body's activities uncontrollable or the person uncontrollable, some of the symptoms you can see when you have autonomical neuropath pain, including:

  • The body is phosphate
  • Dysfunctional bladder function
  • Do not feel chest pains or myocardial infarction
  • Out too little or too much sweat
  • Suffer from constipation
  • Dry mouth or eyes
  • Disorders of sexual functions

Motor nerve pain: Seriously affects the body's ability to control motor activities. Some of the symptoms that you can easily notice, include: convulsions, muscle atrophy, muscle weakness, loss of sense of balance or paralysis of the limbs.

Sensory nerve pain: causes the person to lose awareness of pain or other sensations. Some manifestations when sensory nerves are damaged, include:

  • The body is too sensitive
  • Encountering invisible injuries (self-injury without recognition)
  • Sensation of stinging, tingling or burning
  • Loss of sensation or numbness at the tip of the finger
  • Activities such as lingling, shoe fastening or knitting become difficult
  • Feel dull touching your fingers at objects around you

In addition, neuropathic pain seriously affects the sleep of the person, especially at night, the pain will become more unpleasant and intense. When you touch your back on the bed cushion or lie down there is also pain. If neuropath pain occurs for a long time and affects the quality of sleep; it is best to see your doctor as soon as possible for timely diagnosis and treatment.

If left uns treated, nerve damage will tend to deteriorate over time. The disease usually begins in the most distant nerves from the brain and spinal cord, which can then move to the legs and arms. However, you can completely control and treat medical conditions that cause nerve damage if you change your lifestyle and have the right treatment.

Convulsions

Motor nerve pain can cause seizures

5. Treatment of neuropath pain

5.1. OTC Treatments

Over-the-counter painkillers may be the first treatment your doctor recommends to relieve the symptoms of pain caused by nerve damage. These include non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) – such as ibuprofen, or other analgesics – such as acetaminophen or prescription drugs. Other treatment options include analgesic creams, ointments, oils, gels or sprays used on the skin.

5.2. Prescription drugs

Currently, there are many prescription drugs that can help relieve neuropathic pain. Your doctor may prescribe you antidepressants or anti-seizure medications to alleviate the pain caused by the disease.

5.3. Natural treatments

In addition to the use of analgesic drugs for the treatment of neuropathic pain, patients can opt for additional or alternative treatments to improve the symptoms of the disease. Studies have explained that acupuncture can relieve neurological pain. In addition, in certain cases, nerve pain is caused or aggravated due to the body's vitamin B12 deficiency; therefore, the patient can add this vitamin in accordance with the dosage prescribed by the doctor.

Besides strictly following the doctor's treatment guidelines, patients can take a number of other methods to combat chronic pain, among them changing their lifestyle habits such as exercising regularly, keeping weight at a reasonable level and improving their diet : low fat, rich in vitamins, limiting the use of stimulants such as alcohol, beer.

Neuropathic pain can leave many disease complications for sufferer, so examination and detection of neuropathic pain is important. At Share99 International Health Hub, there is currently a general health examination package, in the package with a neurological examination to detect many related diseases. With a system of modern facilities and equipment and medical team, neuropsychies at home and abroad will give the best treatment advice to patients.

Customers can directly go to Share99 Health System nationwide for medical examination and treatment or contact the hotline HERE for assistance.

Source: webmd.com

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