Causes of muscle atrophy, serious diseases need attention

Muscular atrophy is a very serious disease and will bring a lot of inconvenience to life. Therefore, everyone should understand its causes. Common ones include the invasion of toxic substances into the body, especially some heavy metals, and genetics.

1. Causes of muscle atrophy:

1. Toxic substances: The cause of this disease is that some toxic substances invade our body. Such as lead, manganese and other heavy metals. Excessive amounts of activated amino acids and free radicals can stimulate motor neurons and cause their death.

2. Genetic factors: Another reason for leg muscle atrophy is that patients with this type of disease account for 5-10% of all motor neuron patients, but there is currently no way to explain the causes of sporadic patients.

3. Autoimmunity: This is because unknown factors activate our body's immunity, causing it to fight against motor neurons, leading to the death of motor neurons, thus causing this disease.

4. Virus invasion: Many experts point out that this disease may be caused by damage to motor neurons, just like the polio virus invading motor neurons, and is caused by the virus.

5. Lack of neurotrophy: The results of current medical experiments have shown that the survival of motor neurons depends on certain substances, such as FGF, CNTF, BDNF, etc.

Second, the prevention method of muscle atrophy:

1. Prevent gastroenteritis: Patients should pay attention to preventing gastrointestinal diseases and maintaining normal digestive function, because gastroenteritis can lead to dysfunction of intestinal bacteria and cause varying degrees of damage to the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord, thereby aggravating muscle twitching, decreasing muscle strength, and causing repeated or aggravated disease. Therefore, patients should do a good job of prevention in daily life. Preventing gastrointestinal diseases is the basis for treating muscular atrophy.

2. Maintain an optimistic mood: A good mood plays a positive role in preventing muscle atrophy. If the patient is under strong and repeated mental tension, irritability, pessimism and other emotional changes, the balance of the cerebral cortex's excitation and inhibition processes may be disturbed, causing muscle twitching to increase and promote the development of muscle atrophy. Therefore, patients should maintain an optimistic mood. This is one of the daily prevention methods for muscle atrophy.

3. Reasonable diet: For patients with muscular atrophy, a high-protein, high-energy diet is needed every day, because the reconstruction of nerve cells and skeletal muscle cells requires such nutrients, which is good for enhancing muscle strength and growing muscles. Patients should also avoid spicy foods. For patients in the middle and late stages, they can be given semi-liquid or liquid food that is high in protein, nutrition and energy, and they should also pay attention to daily nutritional combinations.

This shows that effective prevention is necessary. Of course, if you do not suffer from the disease, you should go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible.