What symptom does myelitis have?

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Myelitis is a disease caused by infection or toxin invading the spinal cord. The onset is acute, and complete paraplegia can occur within a few hours to 1-2 days. Therefore, timely treatment is very important. Understanding the symptoms of patients with myelitis is helpful for early treatment. So what are the symptoms of myelitis? Let's talk about it.

What symptom does myelitis have?

In the early stage of onset, it is in the stage of spinal cord shock, limb flaccid paralysis, also known as soft paralysis. After 2~4 weeks, the limbs gradually become spastic paralysis, or * so-called paralysis, and the problem of urination is also changed from urinary retention to urinary incontinence.

When cervical spinal cord is involved, quadriplegia may occur. If it affects the high cervical segment (above C4), dyspnea can also occur. Cervical enlargement myelitis can appear double upper limb soft paralysis, but double lower limb hard paralysis.

When the lesion is located in the lumbar spinal cord, the lower limbs show flaccid paralysis, and muscle atrophy can be seen in the early stage. When the lesion was in the cuboid pulp, the sphincter dysfunction was obvious without obvious paralysis. In addition, there is a kind of ascending myelitis. The onset of this type of myelitis is sudden, and the disease can develop rapidly from the bottom to the top. The disease often reaches the peak within 1-2 days or even several hours.

matters needing attention

Myelitis is a harmful disease, which causes great pain to patients, and even threatens the safety of patients. If it can be treated as soon as possible, it can avoid more harm. Understanding the symptoms of sequelae of myelitis is helpful to find the disease earlier.