Sugar Friends should alert “paralysis”
Posted on September 25, 2009
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“Diabetes is not terrible, terrible its complications,” more and more people with diabetes have begun to recognize this, but the harbinger of complications, “Friends of Old Sugar,” be prepared for whether they have been out?
Aunt Lin is 10 years of “Friends of Old Sugar”, and usually because of a stable blood glucose control, diet, daily life are also cautious with added, physical condition has been good in recent years as patients who do not like to live Youziyouwei , comfortable mood. However, the most recent period, Aunt Lin found himself more a “competent” is usually knock a, Peng Zhao did not painlessly, and are not afraid of hot water and feet of the. But his wife said that this phenomenon is not normal, is the sense of insensitivity, and it should go to the hospital to see.
Test results so that Aunt Lin surprised, because she’s this “ability” is a complication of diabetes – peripheral neuritis.
Peripheral neuritis is a common complication of diabetes mellitus, diabetic neuropathy complicated by the prevalence rate of 20% ~ 30%, peripheral neuritis is one of the most common kind.
Silently the “paralysis”
Diabetes, peripheral neuritis (mainly referring to the symmetry of peripheral nerve disease) onset hiding, slow progress in a short time do not think that is a disease caused by attention, with the extended duration of diabetes, peripheral neuritis, symptoms will become more apparent, the incidence rate of more to the higher. Signs and symptoms of patients when the diagnosis is easy, however, some patients although the peripheral nerve has been damaged, but not yet shown any signs of discomfort and abnormal, easily missed diagnosis, delayed treatment.
Diabetic peripheral neuritis mainly for hand-foot paresthesia, mostly starting from the toe, after a few months or years gradually move upwards, usually to upper extremity symptoms occur when the knee is a finger to the wrist from the development. In his hands was “glove-like” distribution, while in the feet of the bad feeling was “sock”-like distributed. Professor Hu pointed out that the symptoms of diabetic peripheral neuritis is a prominent spontaneous paresthesia, including pain, temperature sensation and pressure sensation abnormalities.
Pain: foot showed mild to touch the pain or discomfort becomes intense discomfort, is a feature of the disease symptoms. A typical pain for burning, dull, crushing like pain, tingling, pain or spasm-like pain, tearing, lower limbs than the upper weight increased at night. Your hands touch the line items have a lot of ants, or a sense of numbness. Early multi-appear in the fingertips, from the beginning can not live up to later fine sewing and so on can not even grasp objects.
Temperature sensation: the majority of patients except pain, there will be numbness, chills feeling. Cold feet a little bit of fat in patients with even feet directly into the open heat source, which led to serious harm to both feet.
Self-examination and self-test self-care
Patients with diabetes should be an early sense of self-examination and self-test function in the foot, the physical examination of both lower extremities of foot pain, pressure sensation, temperature sensation, tactile inspections are abnormal. Is usually carried out by the skin feeling physical examination, can be discovered early peripheral neuropathy and peripheral neuritis.
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