What is cachexia face?

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Looking at the face is looking at the expression of the face. Human facial muscles and blood supply are very rich, twelve pairs of cranial nerves are concentrated here. Healthy people should have a natural expression, a happy look, a moderate proportion of tissues and organs, and a reasonable distribution. When the body is sick, it will be troubled by pain, especially when the disease develops to a certain extent, there will be some characteristic faces and expressions. Therefore, the observation of facial appearance and expression will undoubtedly provide important clues for the diagnosis of some diseases. Cachexia face: extremely thin face, pale complexion, poor skin elasticity.

What is cachexia face?

It is the tumor through a variety of ways to change the metabolism of the body, so that the body can not absorb nutrients from the outside world, the tumor from the body's inherent fat, protein to capture nutrition to build itself, so the body lost a lot of nutrients, especially essential amino acids and vitamins (formed by the decomposition of fat and protein). The process of oxidation in the body is weakened, the products of incomplete oxidation are accumulated, and nutrients cannot be fully utilized, resulting in a state of waste metabolism. The lack of heat leads to loss of appetite, which leads to only a small amount of food or no food at all. The body is extremely thin, skinny, and only bones are left. The body is like a skeleton, anemia, weakness, completely bedridden, and unable to take care of itself, Severe pain, systemic failure, etc.

Hair loss, extremely thin face, painful expression, withered face, high cheekbones, deep socket, severe anemia face. The healthy person's face should be two eyes have God, the eyebrow is delicate, the skin is rich in luster. The bone of sphenoid alar is the most common site of orbital metastases from systemic malignancies. The bone destruction is serious, often accompanied by soft tissue tumors. The patient's general condition is poor, cachexia and rapid progress.

Hyperthyroidism face: thin facial muscles, prominent eyeballs, shining eyes, with a frightened expression, eye fissure increased and less blinking, accompanied by happy, restless, irritable performance, common in patients with exophthalmic hyperthyroidism. The expression is the face is startled, easy to be stimulated by a variety of small sounds from the outside world and show a very frightened appearance; Exophthalmos, similar to goldfish eyes; Excited, restless, irritable. This is a typical manifestation of hyperthyroidism.

matters needing attention

The best treatment for cachexia is to cure cancer, but it is an impossible task for terminal cancer patients. No high nutritional food or high nutritional intravenous injection can help cachexia limited. At present, the drugs used in clinic focus on promoting appetite and reducing cytokine, including metoclopromiclo, steroids and high-dose lutein; Among them, high dose lutein is especially worth mentioning, which can promote appetite, inhibit excessive consumption of energy in the body, increase weight and improve quality of life.