What are the general symptoms of vasculitis?

Its clinical symptoms are divided into three stages. Early symptoms: numbness, coldness, pain, fatigue, calf soreness, weakened pulse in the affected area, and may gradually disappear; Interim symptoms:

pain in the lower leg during activity, muscle twitching especially at night, intermittent claudication; Late symptoms: persistent severe pain, dark red, black-brown, ulcers, blackening and necrosis of the feet and toes.

Vasculitis is a disease that can cause inflammatory lesions of small and medium-sized arterioles up to narrowing and occlusion of blood vessels, and the obvious symptoms of vasculitis are numbness, coldness, cold intolerance, soreness, fatigue, heaviness, and mild intermittent claudication of the affected limb. It is more common in young men and adults. Smoking, cold, dampness, malnutrition and abnormal sex hormones are the main causes of this disease, and smoking is particularly closely related to the onset of the disease.

Vasculitis has different symptoms at different stages of onset, and symptoms vary depending on the age group.

Vasculitis is an inflammatory manifestation of the blood vessel wall itself and is not related to bacterial infection. Normal blood vessels are divided into inner, middle, and outer layers. The inner layer is very smooth, and blood flows from the inside; The middle layer is the muscle layer, which is to maintain the elasticity of blood vessels; The outer layer is a very smooth structure separated from other tissues.

The vascular wall of vasculitis is involved in the lesion from the inside and outside of the whole layer, and the inflammatory changes of the inner layer cause vascular stenosis. Changes in the middle layer make the muscles stiff and elastic; The nerves, adventitia, and muscles around the blood vessels are also involved in inflammatory changes, producing a series of symptoms.

The initial symptoms of vasculitis include numbness, coolness, sensitivity to cold, heaviness of the affected limb, spasmodic pain in the toes and calf muscles, intermittent claudication, weak or absent arterial pulses of the affected limbs, migratory superficial phlebitis, and no significant systemic symptoms.

Medium-term symptoms of vasculitis, numbness, chills, cold intolerance, worsening of intermittent claudication, and resting pain. The affected limb is often flushed, purplish red or pale, the foot is dry, peeling, the toenail grows slowly, thickens and deforms, the hair falls out, the calf muscles are atrophied, and the arterial pulse of the affected limb disappears. There may be emotional restlessness, dizziness, low back pain, and weakness of muscles and bones.

In the later stages of vasculitis, ulceration or necrosis of the affected limb due to severe circulatory disorders, most of which are confined to the toes or feet, and rarely spread upward to the ankles or calves. The pain is severe and unbearable, and the patient often sits with his knees crossed, beats his chest and feet, screams, and is in pain. After the toe of gangrene falls off, it often leaves an ulcer that does not heal for a long time.

The whole body is often accompanied by fever, dry mouth, loss of appetite, insomnia, constipation, yellow urine and other symptoms.

Vasculitis, also known as thromboangiitis obliterans, occurs more often in young adults, more in men than in women, and smokers have a higher incidence rate. Vasculitis is a serious disease caused by vascular occlusion caused by intravascular thrombosis in the arteries, resulting in avascular necrosis of the corresponding limbs.

The initial clinical manifestations of vasculitis are the appearance of pale cyanosis of the ischemic limbs, and redness when sagging. Most patients have pain when walking, also called intermittent claudication, and rest to relieve the pain after walking for a while, sometimes accompanied by superficial phlebitis migrans, and eventually severe pain, rest pain, acral necrosis, and eventually continuous amputation.

Arteriography of the lower extremities can confirm the diagnosis of vasculitis, and once diagnosed, it must be immediately ** to reduce the disability rate, and if it is done properly, it is completely possible. Patients must be reminded that smoking must be stopped! Must quit smoking! Must quit smoking!

Main symptoms The main symptoms of vasculitis are intermittent claudication, soreness, swelling, numbness, numbness, chills or fever in the affected limb, rest pain, gangrene in the toes or along with the feet, recurrent migranous thrombophlebitis in the lower leg or foot, and decreased or absent pulses in the middle and small arteries (most commonly dorsalis pedis artery).

The main manifestations of the early symptoms of vasculitis are: (1) coldness, cold intolerance, numbness and paresthesia in the limbs, especially the toes, are common early symptoms; (2) Pain is the main symptom of the disease, which is manifested as: intermittent claudication Rest pain: When arterial ischemia is severe, the pain in the affected limb is severe and persistent, and the pain does not stop at rest, and it is difficult to sleep all night.

Even if the toe is ulcerated and infected, the pain is more severe.

Thromboangiitis is mainly manifested as redness, numbness, cold pain in the patient's fingers or toes, ulceration and necrosis in the later stage, and in severe cases, it will lead to residual ringworm of the hands and feet. Mainly due to the lack of vitality of the patient, the qi and blood can not reach the end of the blood vessels, so that the fingers or toes can not get nutrients and gradually necrosis. Western medicine believes that the power of blood circulation depends on the pressure generated by the heart's beating, but this is not entirely the case, when the human heart dies and suddenly stops beating, the human body still has a certain portal blood pressure, which is the power of the undecayed vitality.

The disease is more common in young adults and is more common in the lower limbs. The affected limb presents temporary or persistent pallor, cyanosis, burning and tingling pain, the skin color of the affected limb becomes red when it hangs, it becomes white when lifted, followed by numbness of the toes, pain in the calf muscles, irritation when walking, and disappearance at rest; Superficial phlebitis and edema often occur in the lower legs. On examination, dorsalis pedis pulse is diminished or absent.

As the disease progresses, intermittent claudication and Raynaud's phenomenon may occur, pain worsens at night, and pain in the toes is severe, cyanosis, and then ulceration or gangrene at the end of the toes and blackening, which gradually spreads to the proximal end.

There are 6 major symptoms of vasculitis.

1. **Color change.

The color change symptoms of vasculitis are due to abnormal pale skin color due to arterial ischemia, and due to the decrease in superficial venous tone, **On the basis of pallor, there will also be symptoms such as flushing or bruising.

2. Migratory superficial thrombophlebitis.

In patients with general vasculitis, before and during the onset of the disease, superficial migratory thrombophlebitis will recur in the superficial veins of the lower leg or foot, and the symptoms of this vasculitis are manifested as red cord nodules accompanied by mild painful symptoms.

3. Pain. Pain is one of the main symptoms of vasculitis, which is manifested in vasculitis patients who feel soreness and pain in their calves or soles after walking a certain distance at a certain speed, and are forced to rest or walk slowly to relieve it. Persistent pain occurs in the later stages of vasculitis, especially at night, which often causes great distress to vasculitis patients.

4. Gangrene and ulcers.

In the later stage of vasculitis, if it is not timely, coupled with mistreatment, trauma, hot compress, etc., it is easy to form the symptoms of ulceration and dry necrosis.

5. Weakened or absent arterial pulse.

After the occurrence of vasculitis, with the continuous development of the disease, the pulse of the dorsum of the foot and the posterior tibial artery disappears or weakens, and at the same time, the vasculitis patients will have symptoms such as dryness, rupture, cessation of sweat, no hair, thickening and deformation of nails, and the formation of nutritional disorders such as paronychia.

6. Chills and paresthesias.

The symptoms of vasculitis are that the affected limbs of vasculitis are cold, sensitive to cold, and very sensitive to cold, especially the fingertips. Because the nerve endings are slightly affected by ischemia, patients with vasculitis may have painful sensations, pinprick sensations, numbness, burning sensations and other symptomatic reactions.

Vasculitis is a vascular lesion in the early stage, and develops into a severe infectious disease in the later stage, which can easily lead to amputation or complicated sepsis. The sooner**, the more thorough, the more difficult it is**. The more representative method of traditional Chinese medicine is the antithrombotic and thrombolytic repair mechanism of antithrombolysis and pulse clearing combination.