What is the cause of hemiplegia?

summary

A part of the body completely or incompletely loses the ability of movement / the mechanism is lax and cannot work normally. Paralysis refers to the decline or disappearance of random movements. Clinically, paralysis can be divided into functional paralysis and organic paralysis. Let me talk about the cause of hemiplegia?

What is the cause of hemiplegia?

The common causes include craniocerebral trauma, tumor, inflammation, cerebrovascular disease, degeneration, poisoning, and some medical diseases, such as diabetes, porphyria, macrocytic anemia and vitamin B12 deficiency.

Peripheral nerve paralysis is common in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, single neuritis, multiple neuritis, infection and poisoning. Vascular disease, tumor and systemic disease. Hemorrhage or occlusion of lenticular striated artery supply area, brain tumor, brain abscess, demyelinating disease and glioma in subcortical white matter, which are common in middle cerebral artery branches, affect the internal capsule lesions. Besides hemiplegia, hemiparesthesia and hemianopia can also be found.

Paralysis caused by muscle disease and neuromuscular junction disease is common in myasthenia gravis, polymyositis, progressive muscular dystrophy, periodic paralysis, etc. Most of the cross paralysis are brainstem lesions, which are common in brainstem vascular lesions, inflammation, tumor, trauma and so on.

matters needing attention

Patients should pay more attention to exercise and improve their immunity; Defecate regularly every day to prevent constipation. Never eat hot food or sweet food, because these foods will lead to the transport of the spleen and weaken the ability of water and humidity. At the same time, you can't eat raw, cold, greasy and spicy food that is not easy to digest.