Numbness in the hands, many people must have encountered, we all think it is a normal phenomenon. We don’t pay much attention to it, thinking that our hands won’t be numb after a while. Although this is the case, but hand numbness is not careless, because regular hand numbness may also conceal disease! The frequent hand numbness need to be alert! 1, peripheral neuritis caused by hand numbness in the elderly if long-term digestion and absorption function is poor, malnutrition, will cause vitamin B1 deficiency to peripheral neuritis, causing finger numbness. In the sleep if the posture is not correct, the neck is skewed arm pressure will also cause finger numbness. 2, transient ischemic attack caused by hand numbness in the elderly often suffer from hypertension, hyperlipidemia and other diseases. High blood pressure can cause blood vessel spasm, high blood fat will cause blood viscosity increase, coupled with slow blood flow at night when sleeping, these factors will lead to transient cerebral ischemia and numbness of the finger phenomenon. Therefore, the elderly should regularly check blood pressure, blood lipids, blood rheological examination, such as hypertension or hyperlipidemia, to do antihypertensive, lipid treatment, and to drink more water, but also under the guidance of doctors to apply nimodipine, salvia tablets, Vibrameru, small doses of aspirin and other drugs to improve microcirculation, the phenomenon of finger numbness will be eliminated. 3, cervical spondylosis caused by hand numbness cervical spondylosis symptoms are diverse, finger numbness is one of them, do cervical spine X-ray can help diagnose. Treatment of cervical spondylosis can be used in addition to physical therapy, traction and the application of some blood circulation drugs, you can usually do some slow activity of the neck health exercises; sleep pillow height to be appropriate, soft and hard also to moderate, sleeping posture to be correct, in order to avoid local vascular and nerve tissue pressure. 4, diabetes can also cause hand numbness diabetes will produce a variety of complications, diabetic neuropathy is one of them, if peripheral neuropathy occurs, there will be numbness in the limbs and abnormal sensation and other symptoms. Once suffering from diabetes, to carry out regular and reasonable treatment, to control blood sugar to the normal range, and pay attention to the supplementation of vitamin B1, vitamin B6, vitamin C and so on. 5, chronic alcoholism can cause hand numbness for some frequent drinkers, if there is numbness in the palm of the hand, it indicates chronic alcoholism. Chronic alcoholism without timely intervention can lead to dysfunction of various systems of the body, and even irreversible pathological damage, such as chronic gastroenteritis and ulcers, alcoholic myocarditis, fatty liver or cirrhosis, central nervous system degeneration or brain atrophy. 6, another common disease that causes numbness in the hands is stroke. Must be prevented: should be careful living, diet, far from the house, broad emotions. Although numbness of the fingers does not necessarily lead to stroke, but for middle-aged people over 40 years of age, if they often have headaches, dizziness, heavy head and feet, numbness of the limbs, tongue swelling and other symptoms, and patients usually have hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, cerebral arteriosclerosis and other diseases, should pay more attention to be alert to the occurrence of stroke.