Numbness in the hands and feet of the elderly may be a symptom of limb nerve damage, considering diabetes, peripheral neuritis, cerebral vascular sclerosis, local nerve irritation and cervical and lumbar spine disease, etc., the patient can comply with the doctor’s instructions for drug treatment, drugs, including nutritive nerve medication, treatment of the original disease medication.
2. Nutritional nerve drugs: local nerve stimulation, diabetes, peripheral neuritis, cervical spondylosis may cause numbness in the hands and feet, patients can follow the doctor’s instructions to use nutritional nerve drugs, including vitamin B, methylcobalamin, adenosylcobalamin, etc., so as to nourish the nerves, and promote the restoration of nerve function, to achieve the purpose of alleviating the symptoms of numbness in the hands and feet.
In addition, patients also need to actively control the primary disease according to different causes, in order to play a role in relieving numbness of hands and feet. Such as diabetes can be given to lower sugar metformin, glibenclamide, etc.; cerebral vascular sclerosis can be given aspirin, clopidogrel, etc..
If the patient has numbness of the hands and feet and other uncomfortable symptoms, the patient should not blindly judge on their own, they should consult a doctor in a timely manner, ask the doctor to give a clear diagnosis, actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment, and strictly comply with the doctor’s instructions for medication.