In daily life, beware of four diseases when your fingers feel numb

Some friends may experience numbness in their fingers. In fact, any abnormality in any part of the body may be a sign of physical illness, so everyone needs to pay attention to it. If your fingers feel numb, you need to be alert to four diseases, and timely examination is the best way to protect yourself.

Cervical Spondylosis

This is the most common disease that causes numbness in the fingers, and it is also one of the diseases that are common among middle-aged and elderly people. In recent years, this disease has tended to occur in younger people. Due to long-term sitting and unwillingness to move, abnormal neck posture, especially prolonged use of computers and mobile phones, the cervical intervertebral discs undergo degenerative changes, leading to disc herniation or hyperplasia or hypertrophy of the articular processes. Once these protruding cervical discs or hyperplastic articular processes compress the adjacent cervical nerve roots, numbness of the fingers occurs. In addition to abnormal peripheral nerve sensation, there are other symptoms, such as muscle soreness in the neck and shoulders, radiating pain in the upper limbs, or movement disorders. Taking anteroposterior and lateral X-rays of the cervical spine can help diagnose this type of disease.

Transient cerebral ischemia

This is also a common cause of numbness in the fingers, which is more common in the elderly. This disease should be considered especially when numbness occurs on one side of the limbs. The disease usually starts suddenly, lasts for a short time, and is often accompanied by other symptoms such as limb weakness, dizziness, and headache. The causes and pathogenesis of transient cerebral ischemia are mostly the detachment of microemboli from the cerebral artery wall, a drop in blood pressure on the basis of cerebral artery stenosis, and cerebral vasospasm. If the above symptoms occur, you should go to the hospital in time for a comprehensive screening of risk factors for cerebrovascular disease, such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia, atrial fibrillation, etc., and provide active prevention and treatment.

diabetes

Bilateral symmetric numbness in the fingers is a common symptom of diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Epidemiology shows that the diabetes prevalence rate among Chinese residents has reached 9.7%, with a total number of nearly 100 million. The blood sugar of many diabetic patients cannot be effectively controlled, and various complications appear in the early stages of the disease. Therefore, after suffering from diabetes, you must undergo regular and reasonable treatment, control your blood sugar to a normal range, pay attention to supplementing multiple vitamins, and take drugs to improve blood circulation, and the numbness in your fingers will disappear.

Peripheral neuritis

Numbness in the fingers accompanied by pain and weakness, which occurs symmetrically on both sides, suggests possible peripheral neuritis, which can be caused by a variety of reasons. The clinical manifestations vary slightly depending on the cause of the disease. If it is caused by poisoning, the pain will be more severe; if it is caused by nutritional metabolic disorders, the weakness and numbness will be more obvious. Generally, the disease progresses slowly and recovery is more difficult.