Health care measures for spinal muscular atrophy

Many people don't pay much attention to spinal muscular atrophy, which is a fatal neuromuscular disease that can affect both men and women. Spinal muscular atrophy must be treated early, and necessary health care measures must be taken.

1. Maintain an optimistic and happy mood. Intense, long-term or repeated mental stress, anxiety, irritability, pessimism and other emotional changes can cause an imbalance in the excitation and inhibition processes of the cerebral cortex, aggravate muscle twitching and cause muscle atrophy to develop.

2. Rationally adjust the diet structure. Patients with muscular atrophy need high-protein, high-energy dietary supplements to provide the substances necessary for the reconstruction of nerve cells and skeletal muscle cells in order to enhance muscle strength and grow muscles. They should adopt high-protein foods rich in vitamins, phospholipids and trace elements in the early stage, and actively cooperate with medicated diets, such as yam, coix seed, lotus seed heart, tangerine peel, pseudoginseng, lily, etc., avoid spicy foods, and quit smoking and drinking. For patients in the middle and late stages, a high-protein, high-nutrition, energy-rich semi-liquid and liquid diet is the main diet, and small and frequent meals are adopted to maintain the patient's nutrition and water and electrolyte balance.

3. Combine work and rest. Avoid forced sexual exercise, because forced sexual exercise will cause skeletal muscle fatigue, which is not conducive to the recovery of skeletal muscle function, regeneration and repair of muscle cells.

4. Strictly prevent colds and gastroenteritis. Because patients with muscular atrophy have low immune function or some kind of immune deficiency, once they catch a cold, their condition will worsen, the course of the disease will be prolonged, and muscle atrophy and muscle twitching will worsen. Especially patients with bulbar palsy are prone to lung infection. If not treated in time, the prognosis will be poor and even the patient's life will be endangered.

5. Gastroenteritis can lead to dysfunction of intestinal bacteria, especially viral gastroenteritis, which can cause varying degrees of damage to the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord, thereby causing increased muscle twitching, decreased muscle strength, and recurrence or aggravation of the disease in patients with muscular atrophy. Maintaining normal digestive function for patients with muscular atrophy is the basis for recovery.