Numbness of hands and feet
Introduction
Introduction The numbness of the hands and feet, also known as the numbness of the limbs. Refers to the sense of organ disorders in the hands and feet, Chinese medicine explained: hemp, skin ants walk feeling, or such as touch inductance; wood, skin is not as good as wood thick. From the qi and blood to the virtual, the meridians lost in support, or qi and blood stagnation, meridian loss, or cold and dampness retention caused by venous. "Danxi Heart Law" Volume 4: "The hands and feet are qi deficiency, the hands and feet are wet and dead." The numbness of the limbs here does not mean that in a short period of time caused by long time, incorrect sleeping position, etc. Symptoms that can be eliminated, numbness of the hands and feet for a long time (generally more than one day) is a disease, and you need to go to the hospital.
Cause
Cause
More due to qi deficiency, blood deficiency, glory, rheumatism, phlegm blockage. A numbness card, based on qi and blood deficiency, wind and cold dampness and phlegm, although the cause of numbness is arbitrarily ill, and its pathogenesis is caused by qi and blood can not run normally, and even the flesh and blood meridians are dying. Insufficient blood, cold block, blood circulation, blood and blood can not support the meridians is the basic cause of numbness.
1 diabetes;
2 Some side effects of western medicine such as trifluralin, metronidazole, rifampicin, streptomycin and other antibiotics and postoperative chemotherapy drugs;
3 hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hyperviscosity, etc.;
4 rheumatism and cold, joint strain;
5 inflammation infection, trauma, all kinds of poisoning.
Examine
an examination
Related inspection
Electromyography CT examination
Diagnosis can be based on the clinical manifestations of hand and foot numbness and the patient's medical history. The patient often attacks during sleep at night, and even wakes up, or both hands become bloated after getting up in the morning, numbness is not stiff, and can be relieved after a little activity. The above symptoms are often affected by cold and tiredness. With the fatigue of the gods, the hands and feet are afraid of the cold and other performance tests to check the nervous system and no significant damage to the lesions (individual patients with abnormal EMG). The disease is in a chronic progression and can last for several years to more than ten years.
Diagnosis
Differential diagnosis
Hand and foot trembling: -receptor hyperthyroidism is a normal secretion of endogenous catecholamines, while -receptors are overly sensitive to their stimulation, resulting in increased heart rate, increased ventricular contractility, and increased cardiac output. - The receptor blocker has a good therapeutic effect. There are signs of anxiety, but most of the appearance is still good. There are hand and foot trembling and tendon reflex enhancement. The age of the disease can be 7 to 80 years old, 80% between 20 and 40 years old, more women than men, 3:1 to 6:1. Most of the pre-existing mental factors such as overwork and height Tension, trauma, post-illness, etc., there are also some iatrogenic, and a few have no incentives.
Hand and foot cleft palate: Where the skin of the hands and feet causes dryness and cleft palate for a variety of reasons, collectively referred to as the cleft palate. Whether the cleft palate is an independent disease, the view is different: some people think that cleft palate is not an independent disease, but a secondary damage. However, according to this disease, the incidence rate is high in some factories and rural areas, and there is no primary disease. It is considered that the hand, foot and cleft palate is an independent disease.
Both sides of the hand and foot Xu move: hand and foot arrhythmia (athetosis) also known as finger movement, or variability (mobilespasm), characterized by limb distal walking muscle tension increased and reduced movement, the emergence of slow as a creeping twist Creeping. Similar to dystonia, it is not an independent disease unit. It is a relatively slow, untargeted, continuous involuntary motor syndrome in the fingers, toes, tongue, or other parts of the body.
Neonatal hand and foot movement: It is the sequelae of the clinical manifestation period of neonatal bilirubin encephalopathy (usually occurring 2 months or later after birth). Performance: manifested as hand and foot movement, eye movement disorder, deafness, mental retardation or teeth Enamel dysplasia and so on.
Diagnosis can be based on the clinical manifestations of hand and foot numbness and the patient's medical history.
