How does high paraplegia solve defecation? It turns out that there are these characteristics

After suffering from high-level paraplegia, the patient has no function below the legs and needs the help of his family to go to the toilet every day to urinate and defecate. In addition, an object suitable for the patient can be placed above the toilet seat to facilitate the patient's excretion, so that he can solve the problem alone.

1. Defecation method for high paraplegia

1. Because we have nothing below the legs, it is very difficult for us patients with high paraplegia to live in daily life. At this time, we need the help of our family members to complete our daily life, such as going to the toilet and urinating.

2. Normally, if you want to eat or wash your face, you can push the wheelchair by yourself, but if you need to defecate and if you are alone, you can place an object that can fit the patient on the top of the toilet seat to facilitate the patient's excretion.

3. In fact, such situations are caused by our daily lives or some bad behaviors. Therefore, in order to avoid such tragedies, people must pay attention when going out or in life, and not let such tragedies happen to themselves.

2. Features

1. Sensory impairment: After spinal cord injury, the nerve bundles in the white matter will be damaged, resulting in loss of skin sensations such as touch, pressure, pain and temperature.

2. Fecal and fecal incontinence: In paraplegic patients, the spinal urination center is damaged, the urge to urinate cannot be transmitted, and the brain's control information on urination cannot be sent out. As a result, the patient does not feel the urge to urinate and urinates at any time and place.

3. Bedsores: Also known as pressure ulcers, they are extremely difficult to treat complications of paraplegic patients who stay in bed for a long time or sit for a long time without changing their body position. In the early stage, redness, swelling or blisters can be seen on the local skin, which later turn purple and begin to break out. If not treated in time, the disease may even spread deep into the bones.

4. Disuse muscle atrophy: Paraplegic patients are bedridden for a long time, and their muscles rarely move, which significantly reduces the nutrition and oxygen supply to the muscles. Over time, muscle strength decreases, muscle volume shrinks, and muscle atrophy occurs. At the same time, due to lack of nutrition, it may be accompanied by a series of pathological symptoms such as dry skin and desquamation.

5. Limb paralysis: The greatest pain for paraplegic patients is limb paralysis, which makes their daily life very inconvenient. The degree of paralysis is mainly determined by muscle strength, which can be divided into levels 0 to 5. Grade 0: Complete paralysis, the patient's limbs cannot move at all; Grade I: Only slight muscle contraction is seen, but the joints and limbs cannot be moved; Grade II: The limbs can move on the bed but cannot be lifted off the bed; Grade III: The limbs can be lifted off the bed but cannot overcome external negative forces; Grade IV: The patient can resist the resistance given to the limbs by the examiner and actively move; Grade V: Normal muscle strength. Generally speaking, the higher the muscle strength, the milder the limb paralysis, and the lower the muscle strength, the more severe the limb paralysis.