How is myasthenia gravis treated? 3 ways to help you

The harm of myasthenia gravis to patients is immeasurable. If you want to minimize the pain, you can choose plasma exchange, medication, and surgery as three methods of treatment, which have good results. In addition, patients should maintain a happy mood and not always look sad.

1. Blood plasma exchange method . This therapy has a relatively narrow scope of application and is generally only used for patients with severe myasthenia gravis. Moreover, the therapy is expensive and the therapeutic effect lasts for a relatively short time, generally only about 7 to 15 days. Therefore, it is not an effective method for treating this disease. This is also a treatment measure for myasthenia gravis.

2. Drug treatment . Although this type of myasthenia gravis treatment can temporarily relieve the condition, long-term use will promote the destruction of acetylcholine receptors in the body, making the disease more stubborn and difficult to cure. In addition, some patients may experience cholesterin crisis due to excessive medication; some patients may experience various toxic side effects due to taking hormones, which prevents the disease from being effectively treated fundamentally.

3. Surgical treatment. Surgical treatment is the removal of the thymus or thymoma. This treatment is only suitable for patients with thymic hyperplasia or thymoma. This treatment is considered to be the main means of Western medicine to treat myasthenia gravis, but it is not effective for all patients who have undergone surgery. Clinically, about 40% to 50% of patients who have undergone thymus surgery can see improvement in their condition after surgery, but the long-term effect is not optimistic. From a clinical point of view, some patients' myasthenia gravis symptoms can be maintained for about 2 to 3 years without recurrence.

The above introduces some related treatment methods for myasthenia gravis. In addition to treatment, we also need to understand that the onset of myasthenia gravis is related to the human body's physical constitution. I hope friends will pay attention to this and pay attention to nutritional intake in daily life. I wish my friends good health.