Saturday, January 12, 2008

ACCIDENTAL NERVE DAMAGE :


Definition

  • Nerve damage is a problem of the transmitting information that helps in carrying out from brain to the spinal cord. They produce pain, absence of sensation, and involuntary muscle movements. There are different names for nerve damage, they are peripheral neuropathy, automatic neuropathy, etc.. The term neuropathy means abnormality in your nerves.

Causes

    • The nerves are the once who transmit information to our nerves to the central nervous system particularly the brain and spinal cord, muscles, and some organs, if in peripheral.
    • This condition can cause you to have failure in the functions of nerves, thus there is pain, feelings loss, they also cause problems on eating, absence of basic processes in the body. They can damage some nerves to all the nerves of the body.
    • There are many causes to have abnormalities of the nerves like hereditary disorder, the systemic or metabolic disorder and infectious or the inflamed conditions, it can possibly cause by hepatitis, Colorado tick fever, diphtheria, guillain-barre syndrome, HIV infections, leprosy, Lyme diseases, polyarteritis nodosa, rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidisis. Systemic lupus erythematosus, amyloidosis, those exposed to toxic compounds and several miscellanous causes.

This condition is very common, due to the fact that there are many types and cause of nerve damage, scientist typically does not agree on the similar definitions of this disease, because of the incident that are not able to precisely determine. While, there are some people who have inherited neuropathy. The pressure on the nerves is risky cause to have nerve damage. These pressures are bought by long immobility sickness.

Symptoms

We have 3 main types of nerves they are sensory, motor and autonomic. This condition can have an impact to the damage of nerves. Nerve damage may be cause by an affected nerve or all the nerves in the body. They vary in symptoms from only one nerve to affecting whole body. The symptoms depend on which type of nerve is affected.

Treatments

This type of disease is difficult to handle. Some drug to remedy is the opioids which can give the patient a partial relief. This are considered to be a tertiary treatment. Some of the orders in drugs is more effective in treating nerve damage in one or combinations of it. They are tricyclic antidepressants, amitryptyline, anticonvolsants like gabapentin and pregabalin. Those drugs have been researched that they block serotonin reuptake which does not enhance the pain in the nerves. Antidepressants are not treatment to immediately cure this type of disease they are only pain relievers reducing nerve pains.

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