Numbness of hands and feet should be actively searched for the causes, such as improper posture, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, and Guillain-Barre Syndrome, which should be treated according to the causes.
1. Improper posture: If the patient’s hands and feet are compressed for a long time, it can lead to poor blood circulation and numbness of hands and feet can occur. Improper posture should be corrected in time to release the pressure, and the symptoms can be relieved quickly after moving the limbs and massaging the limbs.
2. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy: long-term poor control of blood glucose, diabetes for a long time, can lead to patients with peripheral nerve damage, poor blood circulation in the nerve endings, resulting in numbness of the extremities endings, you can take metformin, glimepiride and other drugs or subcutaneous injection of insulin to control blood glucose, and the application of methylcobalamin and other drugs nutritive nerve therapy.
3. Guillain-Barre syndrome: caused by bacterial infection and other reasons leading to autoimmune damage, resulting in damage to the peripheral nervous system function. It can cause sensory impairment of nerve endings, showing numbness of extremity endings. Patients with acute onset can be treated with immunoglobulin injections. Patients with gastrointestinal infections can also take antibiotics such as erythromycin.
It is recommended that patients should seek medical treatment in a timely manner to identify the specific cause of the disease and cooperate with the doctor’s treatment. All drugs should be used under the guidance of a doctor.