Cough generally does not cause numbness of the legs, if the feeling of numbness may be lumbar spine disease, cerebrovascular disease, lower extremity vascular disease and other diseases.
1. Lumbar spine disease: such as lumbar disc herniation patients, due to coughing caused by elevated abdominal pressure, so that the lumbar spine fibrous nucleus pulposus protrusion aggravate nerve compression, can lead to nerve compression symptoms are more pronounced, numbness of the lower limbs and radiating pain and other symptoms.
2. Cerebrovascular disease: due to violent coughing caused by cerebral vascular disease patients with intracranial pressure changes or cerebral ischemia and hypoxia, patients can appear thigh numbness, nausea, vomiting feeling.
3. Lower extremity vascular disease: for patients with lower extremity vascular disease, due to violent coughing can cause spasm of the lower extremity blood vessels, poor blood circulation can also cause numbness of the legs, generally less common.
Cough numbness in the legs may also have other reasons, it is recommended that patients go to the hospital in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, give targeted treatment or treatment.