Clinical symptoms of myasthenia gravis?

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What are the six clinical manifestations of myasthenia gravis? The early onset of myasthenia gravis is hidden, the patients are not easy to detect, easy to miss the best treatment time, which also leads to the treatment of myasthenia gravis is more difficult, causing more harm to patients. Understanding the clinical manifestations of myasthenia gravis can help patients find the disease earlier and receive treatment. So, what are the clinical manifestations of myasthenia gravis? Let's talk about it.

Clinical symptoms of myasthenia gravis?

Extraocular muscle involvement. One or both eyelids ptosis, diplopia, strabismus, etc（ Simple blepharoptosis type is called "ptosis" or "Suimu", "Jinfeng", "blepharoptosis", "eyelid waste", etc., which is the most common type of myasthenia gravis. We can see that the patient's eyelids can not be lifted up, so the eye fission is small, or one eye is big and one eye is small, the eye rotation is not flexible, or even can't move, looking at things into a double shadow.

Facial expression muscle and masticatory muscle were involved. The patient's face is expressionless and often has a wry smile, which is called "mask like face". Some patients can't puff, and they can't chew when they eat, especially when they eat dry food.

Muscle involvement of the extremities. When the upper limbs are tired, it is difficult to lift the arms up, comb the hair, brush teeth and dress; When the lower limbs are tired, they are weak when they go up and down stairs, they can't lift, they feel tired and weak when they lift things, they are difficult to get on the stairs or on the bus, they are easy to fall, they are easy to fall when they get off or go down stairs, they are difficult to stand up after squatting, they are difficult to walk, and so on.

matters needing attention

Myasthenic crisis. Myasthenia gravis patients, if the sudden occurrence of severe respiratory muscle weakness, so that can not maintain ventilation function, is called myasthenic crisis, myasthenic crisis for the development of myasthenia gravis disease itself, accounting for about 95% of myasthenia gravis crisis, manifested as systemic skeletal muscle weakness, dysphagia, coughing, respiratory distress until stop breathing.