Chao News Client Reporter Yang Qian Correspondent Jin Nanxing Zhang Cao.
Some time ago, a strange patient came to the outpatient clinic of the endocrinology department of the fourth hospital of Zhejiang University.
As soon as she walked into the consultation room, she immediately took off her shoes and told the doctor about her pain.
Courtesy of the hospital. Older people have diabetic peripheral neuropathy, which is one of the most common chronic complications of diabetes.
Peripheral nerve damage in diabetic patients often starts from the extremities of the limbs and gradually progresses upward, and there may be fever or chills and pain in both lower limbs, and some people have numbness, insect crawling, electric shock, wearing gloves and socks, and may also have stinging, burning, drilling pain and other pains, and these patients with allergies may even feel unbearable pain even the pressure of socks or quilts.
These complications tend to be bilaterally symmetrical, distal than proximal, lower than upper, and nocturnal than daytime. Due to the lack of understanding of this disease by most sugar friends, it is often very serious and even diabetic foot ulcers and amputation are needed to attract attention.
According to Yang Tian, deputy chief physician of the Department of Endocrinology of the Fourth Hospital of Zhejiang University, it is necessary to control blood sugar and stabilize blood sugar to delay the further aggravation of neuropathy, and it is also necessary to combine nutrition of nerves and improve microcirculation.
Courtesy of the hospital. Grandma He is such a patient, she has been through the standard sugar control, nerve nutrition, circulation improvement, pain relief and other comprehensive symptoms can not be well alleviated, causing great trouble to life. In this regard, the Department of Endocrinology and the Department of Pain of the Fourth Hospital of Zhejiang University jointly consulted, and finally gave ** through lumbar sympathetic nerve pulse radiofrequency modulation. This is an ultra-minimally invasive surgery, which only needs to make a "needle" hole in the waist, which can effectively improve the blood supply to the lower limbs, restore the temperature perception of the lower limbs, and reduce pain through high-frequency radio waves, so as to achieve the purpose of peripheral neuropathy, and has a good effect in diabetic neuropathy.
* Later, the old man, who couldn't wear socks in winter, finally felt the burning sensation in his feet ease, and happily told the pain doctor, "I can finally sleep with the quilt completely covered!" ”
Experts from the Fourth Hospital of Zhejiang University reminded that patients with type 2 diabetes should be screened for diabetic neuropathy at least once a year after diagnosis, and patients with a long course of diabetes or microvascular complications such as fundus lesions and kidney disease should be re-examined every 3 or 6 months; Once diabetic neuropathy is diagnosed, the loss of sensation in both feet should be particularly protected, and daily check-ups are sufficient to reduce the risk of diabetic foot injury**, diabetic foot, and amputation.
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