Myasthenia gravis left eyelid ptosis

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Some time ago, the eyelids began to droop, and later both eyes began to droop. To the local eye hospital for treatment for a period of time, but the situation did not improve. The doctor said it might be myasthenia gravis. Now I feel that I have no strength to chew. Now the situation is stable. Do you know that myasthenia gravis has drooping left eyelid? Let's talk about myasthenia gravis with drooping left eyelid.

Myasthenia gravis left eyelid ptosis

Treatment 1: corticosteroids are commonly used. It can be treated with high-dose pulse therapy, such as prednisone, or with high-dose methylprednisolone. After the symptoms are improved, gradually reduce the dosage, and then use the maintenance dosage. The medication can last for several years. This method is suitable for severe patients. At the beginning of medication, the symptoms may worsen, which should be observed. Hormone therapy is effective for most patients, can alleviate the condition for several months to several years, some patients can gradually stabilize the condition. If the hormone effect is not good, cyclophosphamide and azathioprine can be considered.

Treatment 2: hormone or immunosuppressive therapy. The patients over 35 years old with poor therapeutic effect or continued deterioration can be treated with thymectomy regardless of thymic tumor. Most patients have good curative effect after operation.

Treatment 3: the difference between myasthenic crisis and cholinergic crisis should be distinguished first in crisis management. If it is difficult to distinguish between myasthenic crisis and cholinergic crisis, epenol ammonium chloride can be used, but assisted breathing should be prepared. If the symptoms worsen, it is cholinergic crisis, and atropine should be injected immediately. If it is myasthenic crisis, neostigmine can be injected, combined with ephedrine and potassium chloride.

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We suggest that you should pay attention to: in addition, myasthenia gravis diet cooking method: we should according to the nature of myasthenia gravis patients' diet, choose steaming, cooking, pulp and other cooking methods, in order to enhance the patient's appetite, the food should be delicious, variety should be diverse. For myasthenia gravis eye muscle type and some symptoms of motor neuron disease, can take long-term sand lotus root powder, silver fish porridge, lotus seed glutinous rice soup and so on.