Symptoms of acute myelitis

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Acute myelitis is a common disease in the nervous system, suffering from acute myelitis will bring serious damage to patients. Understanding its early symptoms will help us to treat it in time, so as to avoid unnecessary trouble. So what are the early symptoms of acute myelitis? Let's give you a detailed introduction.

Symptoms of acute myelitis

Dyskinesia: early common spinal cord shock, performance paraplegia, limb and low tension and tendon reflex disappeared, no pathological signs. The shock stage is usually 2-4 weeks or longer, and the patients with severe spinal cord injury, pulmonary and urinary tract infection complications and bedsore are longer. During the recovery period, the muscle tension increased gradually, the tendon reflexes increased, pathological signs appeared, and the muscle strength of the limbs gradually recovered from the distal end.

Sensory disturbance: all sensory loss below the diseased segment, there may be hypersensitive area or band like sensory abnormality at the upper edge of the sensory loss level, and the sensory level gradually decreases with the recovery of the disease, but it is slower than the recovery of motor function.

Dysfunction of autonomic nervous system: early urinary retention, no bladder filling, tension free neurogenic bladder, bladder overfilling and filling incontinence *; With the recovery of spinal cord function, the volume of bladder shrinks and urinates autonomously when the urine is filled to 300-400ml, which is called reflex neurogenic bladder. There was no or little sweat below the lesion level, skin desquamation and edema, stent crispness and hyperkeratosis.

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Through the introduction, I believe you have some understanding of the early symptoms of acute myelitis. When you have the above conditions, you must go to the hospital for diagnosis in time, so as not to delay the disease and cause more serious consequences.