What Are The Nerves That Are Affected By The Presence of Diabetes?
|
All
types of nerves can be affected by the said people with diabetes, but
the most frequent is neuropathy that affects the lower limbs and feet,
and the sensory nerves are affected more than motor nerves
What are the anticipated problems in the presence of diabetic neuropathy?
Most patients with diabetes is happening to them ill in the nerves, and appears in two forms:
- lack of sensations, pain, heat and cold, which leads to the occurrence of the so-called nerve neuropathic ulceration ulcers
-
sense of harassment and lack of rest as a result of the presence of
strong sensations of pain, burning, numbness, tingling sensation like
pins and needles in the feet, which is called neuralgia Painful
Neuropathy
How to detect the presence of neuropathy?
Is the discovery of neuropathy examine different types of sensations:
In
cases of diabetic foot the neurologist conducted many tests in the feet
and legs to see the presence of peripheral neuropathy in the foot is so
infected and the lack of sensations, and the extent of its impact
because of the sores, and these tests:
- reflection involuntary examination of the knee and ankle
-
examine the sense of touch using a cotton
-
examine the sense of vibration using a vibrating fork
-
examine the sense of pain using a pin
Since the results of previous tests based on the doctor and patient, so it is being used more accurate tests, such as:
- examine the sense of vibration using a biothesiometer
-
examine the sense of touch by using monofilamen
|