What is numbness? Despite its seeming harmlessness, it can be one of the first symptoms of the disease. Many people note that they periodically have a numb leg, arm, or fingers. It is very important not to leave the disease unattended, especially if such a condition is repeated more than once. As a rule, numbness can be accompanied by a feeling of tightness of the skin, needle pricking, burning. These symptoms may indicate the presence of intervertebral hernias, beginning diabetes mellitus, osteochondrosis. Also, numbness often accompanies migraines, some genetic diseases associated with nerve damage, rheumatism, and in some cases can even be a harbinger of a stroke.
Common symptoms
Often people do not take such a fact as numbness of a part of the body seriously. Others hesitate to go to the doctor in the hope that everything will go away on their own. Nevertheless, if symptoms recur frequently, it is simply necessary to see a doctor. It is especially important to pay attention if numbness attacks are accompanied by loss of sensitivity and impaired coordination of movements. This also includes poor sensitivity to temperature changes (for example, inability to distinguish between hot and cold water). Awkwardness, pain and weakness in a numb limb are also an alarming bell to call on specialists.
Numb hands
The reason in such cases is the compression of the nerves that supply our limbs with blood. This disease only worsens over time. Most often, its symptoms appear at night. It all starts with numbness of the pads or phalanx of the fingers. If you do not pay attention in time, numbness of the hands can spread to the palms and hands completely. Then the disease begins to appear at any time of the day, and is expressed not only in the loss of sensitivity, but also in pain, especially when raising hands. There are many reasons for the occurrence of this disease. It is necessary to highlight the "carpal tunnel syndrome" common among office workers and programmers . It consists in squeezing the nerve, which is responsible for the ability of the hand to feel. This syndrome manifests itself in the daily performance of the same type of work, which causes a large load on the wrist. Most middle-aged people are affected by it, and mainly according to the statistics of women. If you do not start timely treatment, then the muscle dies, and a person forever loses the ability to move his thumb.
Numb leg
This disease often manifests itself in people of working age. And in most cases, anxiety is more than justified. Often such numbness means serious problems with the spine, especially in its lumbar region. It can be intervertebral hernia or osteochondrosis. The leg becomes numb and loses sensitivity to pain if the patient has a disease such as diabetes. For a correct diagnosis and appropriate treatment, an X-ray of the spine is required here.
If a person has a numb leg below the knee (for example, only fingers) - this indicates a violation of blood circulation in the body, metabolism. In more serious cases, we are talking about tuberculosis of the spine or even the development of a cancerous tumor. People with radiculitis also often complain that they have a numb leg, tingling in the extremities and “cottoniness”. In many such cases, a person has a serious risk of becoming incapacitated. Moreover, the disease can pass quickly and develop over the years.
As can be seen from the above, numbness of the limbs is not such a harmless factor. Its symptoms can be harbingers of many dangerous diseases. It is always much easier to prevent a disease than to treat it in a neglected form, therefore it is recommended to contact a hospital in a timely manner. Only there they will be able to conduct the necessary studies to identify the cause of numbness, and then prescribe the appropriate treatment and save you from the negative consequences.