What happens if muscle weakness is left untreated?

Myasthenia gravis is actually an autoimmune disease, which affects the normal functioning of the body, resulting in weakness of the limbs and other problems in the patient's body. Moreover, if the disease is not treated, it may cause eye muscle problems, difficulty swallowing, difficulty breathing, etc., which will also affect the patient's normal life and social interaction.

Myasthenia gravis is caused by a disorder of the body's immune system, which may be related to infectious factors, drug factors, etc. And because the symptoms brought about by the appearance of the disease will affect the normal life of the patient, therefore, it is necessary to use the right drugs to ** the problem of the body. So, what happens if myasthenia gravis is not **?

1. If myasthenia gravis is not effective, it may lead to problems with the patient's whole body skeletal muscles, such as weakness and weakness of the whole body muscles, and the symptoms are generally aggravated after labor or at night, so the impact on the patient's life is quite large.

2. If the disease is a problem in the upper limbs, it will cause the patient's arms to be unable to lift up, which will affect normal activities such as dressing, brushing teeth, and washing face. If it appears in the lower limbs, it will cause the patient to have weak feet when going upstairs, and gradually it will become difficult to climb the stairs, and it is easy for the patient to fall and stand up after squatting.

3. And due to the severity of the disease, it will also lead to problems with the patient's eye muscles, such as the patient's eyelids will droop on one side or both sides together, and it may even be difficult to lift the eyelids, which will also affect the patient's normal vision. Moreover, the severity of the disease may also cause the muscles of the neck to be affected, causing patients to have neck soreness and other problems.

Myasthenia is a chronic condition caused by impaired neuromuscular transmission. Clinical features are muscle weakness and fatigue. There are many patients with muscle weakness in life who feel lost in the face of the disease, which is due to not knowing the ** of muscle weakness and not knowing how the disease occurs.

Moreover, it is especially important for people who want to prevent and manifest muscle weakness to understand the symptoms and manifestations of muscle weakness. Let's take a look at how muscle weakness is caused. What are the main symptoms?

What causes muscle weakness?

1. Nerve and muscle junction transmission disorder is an autoimmune disease of acetylcholine receptors on the postsynaptic membrane at the neuromuscular junction. It has a certain relationship with heredity.

2. Food contamination and poisoning: A considerable part of the patients are caused by eating unclean fried fritters, inferior drinks contaminated by chemicals, and some are caused by patients eating mushrooms.

3. Viral infection: This disease is related to immunocompromise and infection with thymic chronic disease virus.

4. Mental factors: excessive fatigue is caused by playing mahjong and computer games for a long time, so it is necessary to combine work and rest to maintain a comfortable mood.

5. Other factors; Endocrine disorders, hyperthyroidism , autoimmune diseases, polymyositis , **inflammation, lupus erythematosus, etc.

What are the main symptoms of muscle weakness?

1. Fatigue. Fatigue is a common early symptom of muscle weakness. The patient was indistinguishable from an ordinary person in appearance, with no muscle atrophy or obvious body surface abnormalities.

However, patients often have a severe sense of fatigue and often feel fatigued. It is mostly manifested as difficulty in lifting hands, weakness in movement, etc. In addition, this feeling of fatigue is mild in the morning and heavy in the evening.

When the patient is very tired, he or she will feel relieved after resting.

2. Drooping eyelids.

This symptom is most common in the early stages of muscle weakness and can manifest as unilateral or bilateral ptosis, weakness of the upper and lower eyelids, etc. This symptom can manifest at any age, but is more common in children.

3. Double vision. Double vision, which is double vision, when two eyes look at the same thing together, they will see one thing as two or more; Covering one eye, on the other hand, will see a thing. The main cause of double vision is weakness of the eye muscles, and similarly, patients may also suffer from symptoms such as strabismus.

Fourth, the breath is insufficient, and the lips and teeth are weak.

When the patient speaks for too long, the voice becomes deep and nasal, making it sound like the person is out of breath. In addition, due to the involvement of swallowing muscles, intercostal muscles and other muscles, patients often have symptoms such as difficulty chewing and dyspnea, and severe dyspnea often coughs and speaks weakly. Due to the weakness of the facial muscles, patients often have symptoms such as an apathetic expression and extreme difficulty in blowing on the cheeks.

The course of myasthenia is mostly slow, but there are also a very small number of patients with rapid onset and acute disease, such patients will have symptoms such as bulbar muscle weakness and dyspnea in a short period of time, and in complex cases, all of the above symptoms can be reflected.

There are many ways to treat muscle weakness, Chinese medicine advocates taking Chinese medicine and moderate exercise, while Western medicine mainly uses anticholinesterase drugs and.

The patient's symptoms will gradually worsen, and the fatigue and weakness of the skeletal muscles of the whole body will appear, which will seriously affect work and life. In addition, there may be swallowing disorders, such as difficulty swallowing and choking on water, which can lead to malnutrition and possible complications such as lung infections.

The most important thing is that if myasthenia gravis is not intervened**, the patient is at risk of myasthenic crisis, and once myasthenic crisis occurs, the patient's respiratory function will be affected, and respiratory failure may occur.

Therefore, considering myasthenia gravis, it is still necessary to go to the hospital as soon as possible for a clear diagnosis and related **. **Mainly cholinesterase inhibitors and immunosuppressants.

If the disease is not treated, it may cause eye muscle problems, difficulty swallowing, difficulty breathing, etc., which will affect the patient's normal life and social interaction.

If not in time, muscle weakness crisis and reflux crisis can occur, which can paralyze the skeletal muscles of the whole body and lead to respiratory and circulatory failure.

Myasthenia generally refers to myasthenia gravis, which includes symptomatic symptomatic relief and causal modulation of immunity.

For causes**, including medications** and surgical removal of the thymus. Cholinesterase inhibitors, the symptomatic drug for symptomatic relief, are the first-line drugs for all myasthenia gravis, which are used to improve the symptoms of weakness, especially as the initial drug for newly diagnosed patients, and pyridostigmine bromide is commonly used in China. For the regulation of immunity**, glucocorticoids are the first-line drugs for myasthenia gravis, including prednisone acetate and methylprednisolone, and the medication mode includes starting with a small dose and gradually increasing the amount straight and sufficient, if the condition is critical, glucocorticoids can be used to shock**, but it may be possible to induce aggravation of the disease in the early stage, and preparations should be made for crisis treatment.

Critically ill patients in the acute phase may be considered for high-dose gamma globulin shock** and plasma exchange if both are inadequate. Long-term oral immunosuppressants in remission include azathioprine, cyclosporine A, tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, etc., which can be selected according to the condition and drug tolerance. If thymoma is found, thymectomy should be performed as soon as possible.

Muscle weakness is a symptom, not a specific condition. Therefore, muscle weakness is easy and not easy**, and it depends on the specific disease. Diseases that tend to cause muscle weakness can be broadly divided into the following categories:

The first disorder, in children, is congenital muscle weakness, which is a genetically related disorder. The second case, some diseases in neurology, can also cause muscle weakness. For example, myasthenia gravis, which cannot be completely **, but can be well controlled with oral medications.

The third condition is that there are some internal diseases, which are also prone to muscle weakness, such as fever and hypokalemia caused by diarrhea. This condition requires an active primary condition, and muscle weakness is very easy to recover from.

Muscle weakness can occur in a variety of conditions. If it is a patient with hypokalemic periodic paralysis, the symptoms may be relieved after potassium supplementation, most patients are caused by enzyme deficiency, and the patient's general condition is reversed, and if the patient has hyperthyroidism, it can also be caused.

If hyperthyroidism** occurs, the patient's symptoms may be relieved. If it is myasthenia gravis, the main thing is hormones**, prednisone and dexamethasone are commonly used, most patients have thymoma and thymic hyperplasia, and anterior chest contact surgery can also be performed**, and patients may be clinical** after menstruation**. If Guillain-Barré syndrome is considered, it is a demyelinating disease of peripheral nerves, and most patients can be treated positively and correctly**, while some patients may involve respiratory muscles, which may also lead to death.

Generally speaking, if some people have muscle weakness, then they mainly have the following two options, the first option is to use traditional Chinese medicine to regulate their body, the second option is to use Western medicine to carry out the way, the reason why a person will use traditional Chinese medicine to carry out muscle weakness is mainly because of the cause of muscle weakness, is caused by the weakness of the spleen and stomach, so many people will choose to use traditional Chinese medicine to regulate, after all, the use of traditional Chinese medicine to regulate, It won't hurt much for your body.

Therefore, when a person is taking Chinese medicine, there are many things to pay attention to, that is, when a person is taking Chinese medicine, he must continue to eat, don't eat today and tomorrow, if he does not eat continuously, then the effect of the medicine will not be so obvious, and when a person is taking medicine, he can not drink alcohol, because if a person is drinking, the effect will be greatly reduced, and it may make all the effects of the medicine you took a while ago disappear. In this case, the gains outweigh the losses.

In fact, if a person finds that he has muscle weakness, then the best way is to go to the hospital to see the doctor, so that the doctor can see which ** plan is suitable for him, because there are still more ** schemes, the choice is up to you, the doctor will judge according to your specific situation, so for this situation, don't worry too much, This symptom can be relieved by recuperation for a period of time.

Generally speaking, if some people have muscle weakness, then they mainly have the following two options, the first option is to use traditional Chinese medicine to regulate their body, the second option is to use Western medicine to carry out the way, the reason why a person will use traditional Chinese medicine to carry out muscle weakness is mainly because of the cause of muscle weakness, is caused by the weakness of the spleen and stomach, so many people will choose to use traditional Chinese medicine to regulate, after all, the use of traditional Chinese medicine to regulate, It won't hurt much for your body.

Therefore, when a person is taking Chinese medicine, there are many things to pay attention to, that is, when a person is taking Chinese medicine, he must continue to eat, don't eat today and tomorrow, if he does not eat continuously, then the effect of the medicine will not be so obvious, and when a person is taking medicine, he can not drink alcohol, because if a person is drinking, the effect will be greatly reduced, and it may make all the effects of the medicine you took a while ago disappear. In this case, the gains outweigh the losses.

In fact, if a person finds that he has muscle weakness, then the best way is to go to the hospital to see the doctor, so that the doctor can see which ** plan is suitable for him, because there are still more ** schemes, the choice is up to you, the doctor will judge according to your specific situation, so for this situation, don't worry too much, This symptom can be relieved by recuperation for a period of time.

The prognosis is not exactly the same depending on the severity and severity of muscle weakness. Some patients with muscle weakness can **, while some patients are more difficult**, need long-term medication or surgery**, and also need limb function training.

If muscle weakness is related to extraocular muscle paralysis, symptoms such as strabismus, diplopia, and ptosis of the upper eyelid may occur. It can be carried out under the guidance of a doctor with drugs such as pyridostigmine bromide and prednisone**, and if it is not particularly severe, it is usually possible to adhere to **; Patients with muscle weakness who have thymic hyperplasia and thymoma should be treated with surgery as soon as possible.