What reason is old person foot hemp

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We found that many elderly people often have numbness of hands and feet. Many people don't know why the elderly have such a situation. What is the reason for numbness of legs and feet? How to care for numbness of old people's legs and feet?

What reason is old person foot hemp

First: malnutrition for a long time gastrointestinal dysfunction, reduced food intake, will cause the body to lack sufficient protein and vitamins. In particular, the lack of B vitamins will lead to nutritional and metabolic dysfunction and slow nerve conduction velocity, resulting in peripheral neuritis and nerve root disease, resulting in numbness of hands and feet. The elderly usually need to strengthen diet conditioning, so that diet easy to digest, promote absorption.

Second: arteriosclerosis patients with cerebral arteriosclerosis, nerve conduction velocity will slow down, the brain's local blood supply, oxygen supply will also reduce, but also lead to central dysfunction. Especially the central part of the ischemia, hypoxia dysfunction, can cause numbness of the corresponding limb parts. This kind of hand and foot numbness often has one side, paroxysmal characteristics. With the improvement of vascular state, numbness can be improved or disappeared naturally after several hours or days.

Third: side effects of drugs, if the elderly have a variety of diseases, they will take a variety of drugs at the same time. Among them, sulfanilamide, furazolidone, ofloxacin and other antibacterial drugs, remifentanil, ethambutol and other anti tuberculosis drugs, and vinpocetine and other chemotherapy drugs may induce nerve enditis and cause limb numbness when the dosage is too large or the medication time is too long. This kind of numbness usually starts from the hands and feet, and then gradually spreads upward, and is often accompanied by hypersensitivity or paresthesia. Therefore, the dosage of these drugs should be strictly controlled.

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The above is the cause of numbness of the elderly legs and feet of the introduction and some nursing measures, hope to help the elderly legs and feet numbness!