Causes of limb numbness include lumbar and cervical spine disease, peripheral neuropathy and cerebrovascular disease, etc. Nutritional nerve drugs and antiplatelet drugs should be given to treat the specific causes of the disease.
1. Lumbar and cervical spine disease: due to the herniated lumbar intervertebral disc compressing the local nerve root, it will cause numbness of both hands and feet, and need to take nutritive nerve medication, such as methylcobalamin tablets, and at the same time can be combined with traction and other physical therapy.
2. Peripheral neuropathy: peripheral nerve due to poisoning, immunity, metabolism, injury and other causes of body sensory impairment, can lead to numbness of the limbs. Supplementation of B vitamins, such as vitamin B1 and vitamin B12, can also take methylcobalamin tablets.
3. Cerebrovascular disease: including cerebral infarction or transient ischemic attack, due to local cerebral tissue ischemia and hypoxia resulting in numbness of the limbs innervated by the nerves of the site, need to take anti-platelet aggregation drugs, such as aspirin and clopidogrel; cerebral infarction can be used in the acute stage of thrombolytic drugs such as alteplase thrombolytic therapy.
In addition, the application of these drugs have a certain degree of risk, patients need to get the guidance of specialists, can not be applied without authorization. In addition to medication, other treatments such as surgery are needed when necessary.