What should I pay attention to in life with myasthenia gravis?

Attention Issues:

Diet: Patients should follow a healthy diet and maintain an appropriate weight. The diet should be rich in protein, vitamins and minerals to help maintain muscle health.

Rest: Patients need adequate rest and sleep to reduce symptoms of fatigue and muscle weakness.

Exercise: Proper exercise can help patients maintain muscle health, but balance requires avoiding over-exercise and fatigue.

Medications**: Patients need to take medications** as recommended by their doctor to control symptoms and reduce fatigue.

Avoid infection: Patients need to avoid infection as it may worsen symptoms.

Safety: Patients need to be safe from falls and other accidents.

Mental health: Patients need to maintain good mental health and avoid emotional issues such as anxiety and depression.

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1. After discharge, the patient insists on taking the medicine on time, and cannot change the dosage and usage of the drug at will, and carries a card with him, including age, gender, address, diagnosis certificate, all current drugs and doses, so as to refer to them when necessary.

2. Pay attention to safety, do not go out alone, in case of trauma and sudden onset, such as aggravation of symptoms and dyspnea, etc., you must seek medical attention immediately.

3. Increase or decrease clothes according to the weather to prevent colds and colds.

4. Avoid excessive fatigue, ensure adequate sleep, and insist on napping.

5. Maintain optimism and seek medical attention in time when the condition worsens.

6. Women of childbearing age should pay attention to contraception, give patients a diet of high protein, high vitamin, high calorie, high potassium and high calcium, supplement nutrition, reduce glucocorticoids, chew weakness or difficulty swallowing, soft food, semi-liquid, paste and liquid are appropriate, and after the drug takes effect, eat slowly in small mouths, and if the cough is obviously not relieved, give nasogastric liquid diet to avoid suffocation or aspiration.

Patients with myasthenia gravis should pay attention to their nutritional intake in life. First, eat more protein, properly supplement fruits and vegetables, and have sufficient dietary nutrient intake to maintain a balanced nutrition. Second, pay attention to nutrition and cook food softer.

Third, myasthenia gravis should maintain physical strength, rest more, do not be overly tired, do not be nervous and anxious. Also watch out for infections.

Myasthenia is a chronic disease caused by neuromuscular transmission disorders. The affected musculoskeletal muscles are clinically characterized by extreme fatigue and partial recovery with rest and anticholinesterase drugs**. The occurrence of the disease has a certain relationship with genetic factors, it can occur at any age, but it is most common at the age of 10 to 35 years, and there are also middle-aged and older patients.

Patients with muscle weakness have spleen and stomach deficiency, and it is advisable to eat more sweet and warm tonic products, which can play a role in tonic, neutralizing and alleviating urgency

Meat: beef, pork, dog, rabbit, chicken, etc.;

Fish, eggs, and milk are all important foods in the daily diet of patients with myasthenia gravis;

Vegetables: cabbage, leeks, ginger, lotus root, tomatoes, potatoes, chestnuts, walnuts, peanuts, etc. Fruits: Patients with myasthenia gravis are suitable for eating the following fruits: apples, oranges, grapefruits, grapes, bayberry, pomegranates, peaches, loquat fruits, longan, etc.

Myasthenia gravis should be aware of these:

First, there is a constant daily life, a combination of work and rest;

2. Dietary regulation Myasthenia gravis is closely related to qi deficiency, so it is more important to regulate the diet, not to be too hungry or too full, and at the same time, various nutrients should be appropriate, and not partial eating.

3. Avoid wind and cold, prevent cold. 4. The influence of emotional regulation and seasonal changes on the disease Patients with myasthenia gravis tend to be aggravated in poor mood and in the cold season of winter and spring. Patients must maintain a comfortable mood, improve their confidence in overcoming the disease, pay attention to cold protection and warmth in winter and spring, and rationally use effective drugs for myasthenia gravis to prevent the recurrence of the disease.

Usually we should pay attention to a few points, we should be cautious about taking some drugs, benzodiazepine sedative sleeping drugs should be banned as much as possible, because they can have the effect of inhibiting breathing. For patients with myasthenia gravis and dyspnea, they must not take sedative sleeping pills, and should take some sleep-improving and relatively gentle ones under the guidance of a doctor. There are also some drugs, such as aminoglycoside antibiotics, tetracyclines, quinidine, methyl, propranolol, and so on.

These may aggravate the symptoms of muscle weakness in patients, so they must be taken with caution or forbidden and under the guidance of a doctor**.

In addition to the precautions of drugs, patients with myasthenia gravis should regularly take pyridostigmine bromide to improve symptoms or take immunosuppressants, and do not miss the dose. In addition, it is necessary to maintain a regular work and rest time, try not to stay up late, do not overwork, quit smoking, stop drinking, and avoid fever and cold. Because these conditions may induce myasthenia gravis, or even myasthenic crisis, which may cause danger to the patient's life, he should go to the hospital regularly for examination.

The precautions for myasthenia gravis are as follows: First, some drugs should be taken cautiously, such as sedatives, sleeping pills, and aminoglycoside antibiotics. Second, take some palliative medications to improve sleep under the guidance of your doctor.

Third, take your medication regularly and don't miss a dose. Fourth, maintain a regular work and rest time, try not to stay up late, do not overwork, quit smoking, stop drinking, avoid fever, and cold.

Myasthenia gravis can choose conservative**, the so-called drug**, which mainly includes two major classes of drugs: cholinesterase inhibitors, of which pyridostigmine bromide is the most commonly used in clinical practice; Another large class of drugs is adrenal glucocorticoids, such as prednisone, methylprednisolone, etc. Immunosuppressants are also an option**.

In some patients with crisis or refractory disease, high-dose corticosteroid pulses** or plasma exchange, or high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin**, are commonly used. In the daily life of patients, patients should be especially instructed to avoid all activities that increase oxygen consumption and energy demand, such as overwork, staying up late, mood swings, infections, such as respiratory tract infections or diarrhea, which is a conservative method.

Thymectomy is an option for some patients, including patients with myasthenia gravis with hypertrophy and high acetylcholine antibodies, young women, and patients with generalized myasthenia gravis.

In addition, patients who are not satisfied with the effect of anticholinesterase drugs can choose surgery.

Beijing Deshengmen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine - Liu Quanpeng - Department of Impotence - Deputy Chief Physician - How to prevent myasthenia gravis.

Patients with myasthenia gravis should pay attention not to do heavy physical activity, take some drugs that nourish muscles and nerves, and should also do some ** sports and training at ordinary times, and if the physical conditions allow, they can also do physical **. Take a break. Take it regularly under the guidance of a doctor and cooperate with your doctor**.

If myasthenia gravis is particularly severe, surgery may also be performed if necessary**.

Patients with myasthenia gravis often have muscle weakness and fatigue throughout the body, and are easily fatigued and have poor strength. For chewing, for eye muscles, etc., it also has an impact on swallowing, so at the same time, the exercise of functional muscles can be active, passive, or physiotherapy. In the process of exercising, we must carry out functional training under the guidance of professional physicians and first-class physicians, such as walking, exercising, doing gymnastics, and playing tai chi, etc., to carry out a moderate exercise, and adopt a step-by-step approach.

Don't be too tired, the effect is not good, and it will cause other losses. Therefore, its ****, physical exercise, is also a very professional and academic issue, so it must be carried out step by step under the guidance of professional ** physicians and with the help of family members and other companions. If there is a certain amount of moderate strength, exercise activities should be carried out.