Is peripheral neuropathy easy to treat?

With the improvement of living standards, more and more people begin to pay attention to their physical condition. Peripheral neuropathy is a relatively common type, and its main symptoms include neuralgia, arm pain, etc. Some people even experience facial spasms. There are many manifestations of peripheral nerve damage, which require targeted treatment. Many people are concerned about whether peripheral neuropathy can be cured. The following is a brief introduction.

What is peripheral neuropathy?

Peripheral neuropathy is a syndrome of sensory loss, muscle weakness and atrophy, decreased tendon reflexes, and vasomotor symptoms, alone or in any combination.

Symptoms of peripheral neuropathy

When sensory nerve damage occurs, the following symptoms may occur:

As if wearing gloves or socks; numbness in limbs; tingling in limbs; electric shock in limbs; burning in limbs; pins and needles in limbs; knife-cutting sensation in limbs;

When motor nerve damage occurs, the following symptoms may occur:

Weakness and muscle atrophy of the affected limbs; clumsy movements; difficulty opening bottle caps or jar lids; difficulty lifting heavy objects with the upper limbs; abnormal walking with toes dropping; easy falling when walking; difficulty getting up from a chair or toilet seat;

When autonomic nerve damage occurs, the following symptoms may occur:

Dizziness, fainting attacks; feeling of being light-headed when standing up; abnormal increase or decrease in sweating of the hands or feet; (male) sexual dysfunction; long-term constipation or alternating constipation and diarrhea;

When some of the above symptoms occur, the possibility of peripheral neuropathy should be considered. Most patients with peripheral neuropathy experience a combination of the above symptoms caused by damage to different nerve fibers, but few patients experience all of the above symptoms.

Is peripheral neuropathy treatable?

1 Patients must know that peripheral neuropathy is divided into two categories: neuralgia and neurological diseases. Common peripheral neuropathy includes trigeminal neuralgia, facial paralysis, neuritis, acute infectious polyradiculoneuritis, brachial plexus injury, ulnar nerve injury, radial nerve injury, median nerve injury, tibial nerve injury, common peroneal nerve injury, lateral femoral cutaneous neuritis, and sciatica.

2 Patients must be aware that the treatments for these lesions include medication, surgery, and rehabilitation. Generally, drug treatment is mainly used in the early stages of the lesion, surgical treatment is used for injuries that are not effective with conservative treatment but are suitable for or require surgical treatment, and rehabilitation treatment should be performed both in the early stages and recovery stages of peripheral nerve lesions and before and after surgical treatment.

3 Patients must remove their psychological barriers. Patients with peripheral neuropathy often have psychological problems. For patients with peripheral nerve injury who are not responsive to conservative treatment but are suitable for or need surgical treatment, surgical treatment should be performed in a timely manner. If the function of the affected limb cannot be fully recovered or cannot be recovered at all, assistive devices should be designed and prepared according to the specific circumstances, and compensatory functional training should be carried out.

Peripheral neuropathy precautions:

Patients must go to a large hospital to receive formal treatment and do a comprehensive examination. Patients must actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment. Patients must pay attention to personal hygiene in daily life, relax, pay attention to rest, don't be too nervous, try not to eat spicy and irritating foods, and eat more fresh fruits and vegetables.