Do vegetative people respond to pain?

summary

In most people's eyes, a vegetative person is a human body without any feeling, but it can still survive, just like a plant, without any thought, language or action. In life, vegetative people may be caused by many reasons, especially in some traffic accidents, if the head is seriously injured, it is easy to form a vegetative person. Do vegetative people respond to pain? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Do vegetative people respond to pain?

First: Generally speaking, vegetative patients do not have any state of consciousness, but they can have swallowing, chewing and other basic physiological reflex, generally without pain response. Loss of voluntary movement, limb pain stimulation sometimes have flexion escape reaction. So this kind of patient can't move or change body position, can only lie on the bed, must be cared for by others.

Second, intelligence, thought, will, emotion and other purposeful activities have been lost; The eyelids can be opened, the eyeballs show aimless activities, can't speak, can't understand the language, sometimes even if the eyes can gaze, but also can't recognize.

Third: the loss of active eating ability, can not tell hunger, sometimes swallowing, chewing, grinding teeth and other actions. incontinence. EEG is flat or appears resting potential. There may be high amplitude slow wave or accidental change several months after injury α Rhythm.

matters needing attention

1. Prevention of respiratory tract infection: keep oral hygiene, remove oral effusion, food residue, etc., turn over and pat back on time, and timely and effective expectoration. 2. Pay attention to intelligence training: be diligent in using brain to delay brain aging. Chatting with friends, playing mahjong, playing chess, etc. can stimulate brain power and nerve vitality.