How do you get peripheral neuritis? Five factors to watch out for

There are many causes of peripheral neuritis, the most common ones are poisoning, nutritional metabolic disorders, infection and allergic reactions. When symptoms of the disease are found, we must find the cause and prescribe the right medicine.

1. Poisoning - such as heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, mercury, phosphorus, drugs such as furacillins, isoniazid, streptomycin, phenytoin sodium, carbamazepine, vincristine, and organic compounds such as organophosphorus pesticides.

2. Nutritional metabolic disorders - such as vitamin B deficiency, diabetes, uremia, chronic gastrointestinal diseases, pregnancy, etc.

3. Infection - often accompanied or secondary to various acute and chronic infections, such as dysentery, tuberculosis, infectious hepatitis, typhoid fever, mumps, etc. A few cases may be caused by direct invasion of peripheral nerves by pathogens, such as leprosy neuritis.

4. Allergic reactions - such as neuritis after serum treatment or vaccination.

5. Others - such as connective tissue diseases, hereditary diseases such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, hereditary ataxia peripheral neuritis, hereditary sensory radiculoneuropathy, etc. In addition, various cancers of the body can also cause polyneuritis, and may occur several months before the primary lesion shows clinical symptoms, so this should be a cause for concern.

Do you know the cause of peripheral neuritis? The biggest harm of peripheral neuritis is the damage to the patient's body, which affects the normal life of patients with peripheral neuritis. Therefore, patients with peripheral neuritis need to be cautious about peripheral neuritis and should not be careless about the treatment of peripheral neuritis!