Health care methods for systemic muscular atrophy

If we encounter systemic muscular atrophy in life, we recommend that you understand its symptoms in life, which will be helpful for us to treat systemic muscular atrophy. We can use some health care methods to regulate systemic muscular atrophy in our daily life, which will have a certain effect on alleviating systemic muscular atrophy.

Muscular atrophy refers to the reduction in muscle volume caused by nutritional disorders of skeletal muscles, thinning or even disappearance of muscle fibers. The main causes are: neurogenic muscular atrophy, myogenic muscular atrophy, disuse muscular atrophy and muscular atrophy due to other reasons. In addition to pathological changes in muscle tissue itself, muscle nutritional status is also closely related to the nervous system. Spinal cord disease often leads to muscular dystrophy and muscle atrophy. Patients with muscular atrophy have to stay in bed for a long time due to muscle atrophy and muscle weakness, and are prone to complications such as pneumonia and bedsores. In addition, most patients experience symptoms of medullary paralysis, which poses a great threat to their lives.

Muscular dystrophy patient care

1. Maintain an optimistic and happy mood. Intense, long-term or repeated mental stress, anxiety, irritability, pessimism and other emotional changes can cause an imbalance in the excitation and inhibition processes of the cerebral cortex, aggravate muscle twitching and cause muscle atrophy to develop.

2. Rationally adjust the diet structure. Patients with muscular atrophy need high-protein, high-energy dietary supplements to provide the substances necessary for the reconstruction of nerve cells and skeletal muscle cells in order to enhance muscle strength and grow muscles. They should adopt high-protein foods rich in vitamins, phospholipids and trace elements in the early stage, and actively cooperate with medicated diets, such as yam, coix seed, lotus seed heart, tangerine peel, pseudoginseng, lily, etc., avoid spicy foods, and quit smoking and drinking. For patients in the middle and late stages, a high-protein, high-nutrition, energy-rich semi-liquid and liquid diet is the main diet, and small and frequent meals are adopted to maintain the patient's nutrition and water and electrolyte balance.

3. Combine work and rest. Avoid forced sexual exercise, because forced sexual exercise will cause skeletal muscle fatigue, which is not conducive to the recovery of skeletal muscle function, regeneration and repair of muscle cells.

4. Strictly prevent colds and gastroenteritis. Because patients with muscular atrophy have low immune function or some kind of immune deficiency, once they catch a cold, their condition will worsen, the course of the disease will be prolonged, and muscle atrophy and muscle twitching will worsen. Especially patients with bulbar palsy are prone to lung infection. If not treated in time, the prognosis will be poor and even the patient's life will be endangered.

5. Gastroenteritis can lead to dysfunction of intestinal bacteria, especially viral gastroenteritis, which can cause varying degrees of damage to the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord, thereby causing increased muscle twitching, decreased muscle strength, and recurrence or aggravation of the disease in patients with muscular atrophy. Maintaining normal digestive function for patients with muscular atrophy is the basis for recovery.

The above is an introduction to the health care methods for systemic muscular atrophy. I hope patients can adopt them. In general, patients with systemic muscular atrophy should pay attention to a reasonable diet, prevent colds and gastroenteritis, and exercise more when they are free. This will help alleviate systemic muscular atrophy.