What is congenital sensory neuropathy?

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Congenital sensory neuropathy is a group of diseases with various manifestations and easy to be confused. It's genetic. It is autosomal dominant inheritance. The pathogenesis is not clear. Recurrent acral ulcers occur from birth. Hand foot ulcers are often caused by malnutrition and repeated injuries. What is congenital sensory neuropathy? Let's talk about it

What is congenital sensory neuropathy?

Recurrent acral ulcers occur from birth. Hand foot ulcers are often caused by malnutrition and repeated injuries. The pain of the extremities decreased and the sense of touch existed. Some patients have no sweat at all.

The degree of hypothermia was more significant than that of pain, but the tactile sensation was rarely affected; The lower extremities were more severe than the upper extremities. This disease is associated with the following diseases: foot penetrating disease, syringomyelia, Thevenard syndrome, familial autonomic dysfunction and congenital sensory neuropathy with anhidrosis.

Because the skin, muscle and tissue lose the nutritional support of nerve for a long time, it is easy to cause atrophy of skin mucosa and muscle. Therefore, in the process of clinical treatment, we should pay attention to strengthen functional exercise to avoid further aggravation caused by muscle atrophy. As the disease is congenital dysplasia, the patients who have been diagnosed with the disease should be examined by head CT to determine whether there are intracranial abnormalities.

matters needing attention

There was no special treatment. Reasonable diet is recommended to ensure comprehensive and balanced nutrition. Diet should be light, eat more fruits and vegetables, quit smoking and drinking, eat less spicy food. In daily life should pay attention to avoid scald, trauma and other accidents. Pregnancy should be done regularly check, strengthen the diet nutrition, if the child has the tendency of abnormal development, should do chromosome screening in time, clear after should be timely abortion, in order to avoid the disease of children born.