After giving birth to a child more than 3 months of numbness in the hands and feet may be some physiological phenomenon, may also be the manifestation of certain diseases, such as neuritis, cervical spondylosis, etc., should be timely consultation to identify the cause.
1. Physiological factors: due to the postpartum sleep incorrect posture, or a long time squatting and other limbs for a long time in a state of compression, caused by numbness of the hands and feet.
2. Pathologic factors:
(1) neuritis, will make all parts of the body’s nerves are damaged, so that the function can not be normal traveling, the response to the parts of the more sluggish, so it will lead to numbness of the hands and feet, muscle atrophy, limb weakness and other symptoms.
(2) cervical spondylosis, simple nerve root cervical spondylosis can cause numbness of the hands, such as the symptoms of radioactive numbness; and numbness of the feet generally occurs in the spinal cord type cervical spondylosis, serious cases will lead to backward protrusion of the discs or compression of the spinal cord, which will cause motor neurons innervating the lower extremities of the obstacles that can lead to the emergence of the feeling of the soles of the feet on the cotton, foot numbness and other symptoms.
In addition to the above factors, we cannot rule out other causes. Therefore, persistent numbness or accompanied by other discomforts should be consulted promptly to identify the cause of the disease and treat the cause.