Diabetic peripheral neuropathy symptoms?

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We often say diabetic peripheral neuropathy refers to the symptoms related to peripheral nerve dysfunction in patients with diabetes, excluding other reasons. The symptoms of lower limbs were more common than those of upper limbs. The abnormal sensation included numbness, ant walking, insect crawling, fever, electric shock, and often from the distal toe up to the knee. The patient had the feeling of wearing socks and gloves. Patients with severe sensory disturbance may have lower extremity arthropathy and ulcer. The pain is stabbing pain, burning pain, drilling pain, and it seems to be deep in the bone marrow. Sometimes the pain is severe, such as amputation pain, which is light in the day and heavy at night.

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy symptoms?

Diabetes is a common disease caused by the interaction of genetic and environmental factors. Hyperglycemia is the main clinical sign. The common symptoms include polydipsia, polyuria, overeating and emaciation. Diabetes can cause damage to multiple systems of the body.

Peripheral nerve refers to the brain nerve, spinal nerve, autonomic nerve and ganglion besides olfactory nerve and optic nerve. Peripheral nerve disease refers to the primary nervous system structure or function damage of the disease.

Painful peripheral neuropathy spontaneous symptoms, continuous burning, intermittent electric shock or knife like pain, unpleasant feelings: burning, twitching, tearing. The common causes of quadriceps muscle atrophy are disuse, malnutrition, ischemia and poisoning. The lesions of anterior horn, nerve root, nerve plexus and peripheral nerve can cause the conduction disorder of nerve excitation impulse, which leads to disuse of some muscle fibers and disuse muscular atrophy.

matters needing attention

For patients with long course of diabetes, or complicated with microvascular complications such as fundus lesions and nephropathy, they should be reexamined every 3-6 months; Once diagnosed as diabetic polyneuropathy, the loss of sensation of the feet should be specially protected to reduce the risk of skin damage and amputation.