Motor neurone disease treatment

When motor neuron disease occurs, some of your limb movements may be hindered, affecting your life and work. Therefore, we must actively receive treatment and use some methods to help ourselves relieve the symptoms. Do you know some methods of treating motor neuron disease in life? Let’s take a detailed look at it together below!

In fact, when any disease problems occur, the first thing we should do in our lives is to do some formal examinations and treatments. Only in this way can we help ourselves to alleviate the disease problem in a targeted manner and better protect our health.

Medication

There is no specific treatment yet. Acupuncture and Chinese medicine can be used with certain efficacy. In recent years, the following have been used in clinical practice: ① Riruda, 50 mg, taken orally once every 12 hours; ② Lamotrigine, starting at 25 mg per day and gradually increasing to 100 mg/d. Clinically, the drug can improve symptoms and delay progression, but cannot change the outcome; ③ Immunosuppressants, the commonly used drug cyclophosphamide 200 mg intravenous drip, every other day or twice a week, a total of 3-4 g for a course of treatment, is effective for some motor neuron diseases; ④ Nerve growth factor is also used, but the efficacy is uncertain.

Anyone with respiratory muscle paralysis should have a tracheotomy and artificial respiration as soon as possible. Those with lung infection should use appropriate antibiotics. Those with limb stiffness can be given physical therapy and oral administration of rioredoxin 5-10 mg, 2-3 times/d to improve symptoms. If painful spasms occur, oral carbamazepine or phenytoin sodium can be used.

Diet and health care

In daily diet, we must ensure adequate intake of vitamins and proteins, eat light food and avoid greasy food, be cautious about eating cold and stimulating foods, and eat more warm and nourishing foods to achieve the effect of nourishing the body and thereby enhance the body's positive energy. In addition, patients with motor neurone disease should have a moderate diet and should not be too hungry or too full. While having a regular and moderate diet, various nutrients should be properly allocated and they should not be picky eaters. You should eat more foods rich in high protein such as: chicken, duck, fish, lean meat, tofu, soybeans, eggs, plant protein and animal protein, as well as fresh vegetables and fruits, and pay attention to the digestibility of food. Quit smoking and drinking, and avoid eating raw, cold, spicy, and other irritating foods.

The above is an introduction to some treatments for motor neuron disease. Through these introductions, we will find that in addition to more formal drug treatments, we must not ignore dietary problems in daily life, because whether the diet is correct or not will directly affect the quality of this disease.