Polyneuropathy of the lower limbs - serious pathology, provoking violation of function of nerve fibers. And the disease has now become too much to meet often, and hit very young people. Try to understand why and how to fight it? After all, if time does not begin treatment, the disease will lead to complications, the worst of which - a complete paralysis of the legs.
The causes of polyneuropathy
So, how can a person become ill polyneuropathy? Hereditary or acquired a pathology? It turns out that the causes of this disease have a lot of. The main physicians include:
- diabetes, a long time remained without attention and proper treatment, correction;
- poisoning by toxic in-you, including alcohol poisoning (due to the quantity and / or quality of alcohol);
- has become critical for the body's deficiency of B vitamins;
- various injuries of different areas, organs of the body (one can never be sure how a "backfire" bruise or wound);
- hereditary factor (it in any way can not be excluded);
- Guillain-Barré syndrome (an acute and one of the most dangerous autoimmune disease).
The symptoms of polyneuropathy
In the event of polyneuropathy of the lower limbs in humans appear quite certain symptoms, which include:
- weakness in the legs (appears suddenly, his feet seemed to "deny" and then return to normal, but some time still trembling, obviously unstable);
- spontaneous muscle twitches (also appears suddenly and can not be self-correcting);
- leg cramps;
- tingling in various places on the legs;
- "goose bumps" in the legs;
- swelling of the ankle joint;
- change of gait;
- increase / decrease of the sensitivity of the feet.
Detection at similar symptoms - a good reason to immediately enroll in medical reception. After all, these signs may well indicate the occurrence of polyneuropathy of the lower extremities, as well as the presence of some other (or others), not less serious disease. So it should undergo a medical examination is mandatory.
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