Neuralgia - a disease-Hameleon
Masked - is a perfect tool in the struggle for survival in the wild. Harmless animals merge with the landscape or deter potential enemies predatory tinted.
Strangely enough the same thing occurs among disease: some disguised under other ills, delivering pain patients and misleading doctors. Typical example - neuralgia.
The word "neuralgia" derived from the Greek "neuron" and "algos" - "nerve" and "pain". Accordingly, neuralgia - a disease caused by the defeat of peripheral nerves, which manifests itself in the form of severe pain in the course of the damaged nerve. Proceed may last from several seconds to several minutes, the latter is particularly agonizing pain. With characteristic: the usual means of painkillers often do not help.
Because nerves are located throughout the human body, neuralgia may be blacked out under very different diseases, for example, under the renal colic, heart attack, osteochondrosis, gastritis - the list could go on indefinitely…
Insidious neuralgia is still in the fact that the causes that can cause disease, a great many. Primarily, this infectious processes in the zone of a certain nerve plexus; trauma; mechanical pulling, for example, in vertebrates hernias discs; variety of toxic defeat - ranging from alcohol, finishing with heavy metal poisoning.
In addition, the emergence of pain can be caused and allergic reactions, and violations in the immune system, and hormonal changes, and chronic diseases as nervous system Rights and other bodies. Specialists emphasize that in rare cases, "starting point" neuralgia is only one factor, as a rule, they are few.
So, no one is safe from the disease: many faces, indeed - primitive because the pain - the satellite rights throughout his life.
The pain at the fabrications cunning
In ancient Greece struggled with pain muddle through various substances of plant origin, the ancient Slavs enjoyed plots, Assyrian healers "pain" pulling vessels on the neck.
In England XIX century in hospitals near the operating installed… bells to silence the cries of patients.
The pain that arises in response to any damaging effects, for example, with bruises or burns - this so-called physiological pain. Once the tissue recover from the trauma - it disappears.
In the case of nerve pain origin it comes to chronic pain - in fact, it already appears without the involvement of external factors, from negative changes inside the body.
The most frequent type of neuralgia - trigeminal neuralgia nerve. This disease is widespread around the world, mainly among the beautiful half of humanity. The pain may seize any part of a person - depending on what branch of nerve affected. According to the testimony of patients and doctors - is one of the most painful maladies. The pain so intense to proceed with that man stops in the posture in which, so to speak, was caught. Given that no longer treat attacks on time, and conventional analgesics do not help, people can suffer long enough, without realizing the seriousness of their situation.
Here is a typical situation for patients with trigeminal neuralgia nerve.
"One of the permanent client has a few days comes to the pharmacy with painful grimace on the face, lavish with all painkillers immediately. Answers woman from buying another batch of useless medicines for it absolutely impossible, although it is clear that the cause of ailments - not the usual headache, but something more serious. And talk about the need to visit Neurologist and not stutter… Immediately speech: "Do not want to help a patient man - and say so!" And so on. Looks a very patient and very unsightly, opinion and extinct under the shade of blue eyes speak of insomnia and that no drugs do not help. Finally exhausted more women in the end still gets a doctor, who appoints her adequate treatment, and it again comes a pharmacy, but for most other drugs - prescription, designated in the integrated treatment of trigeminal neuralgia nerve. Apotheosis of this stretch of time the confrontation becomes a client phrase: "And did you were right…", addressed to a pharmacist. "
Trigeminal neuralgia nerve - a real enemy - and sudden's a merciless, attacks occur so suddenly that man, after all, begins to live in constant fear of the pain and take all kinds of drugs in advance, although this does not bring benefit to anyone. It may provoke attack harmless at first glance do: Shaving, cleaning teeth, washing, and even emotional conversation or food! Some zones are on the face of hypersensitivity, one touch, for example, to the lips, can cause pain and increase strengthening time attack.
Many contemporary scholars and scientists as the last of the view that emotional psychological distress are of great importance in the process of the emergence of neuralgia. In particular, the Austrian psychiatrist Alfred Adler (disciple of Freud), even in the last century, stressed this fact. Along with some anatomical predisposition to a disease, it is always taken into account in treatment.
"Paintings" sign of illness, perfectly illustrating the entire negative process, is teak - twitching muscles during the attack. Neither disease can not be pleasant, but neuralgia, perhaps - one of the most painful in terms of expressions of pain, not only distorts human health, but also significantly affect the life of his usual schedule.
There are several types of neuralgia, also frequently encountered in practice doctor, for example, intercostal neuralgia, occipital nerve neuralgia and others. But the first place by relevance remains with trigeminal neuralgia nerve.
***
Neuralgia involve complex treatment, which includes not only drug therapy, but physiotherapy, reflexotherapy, and even surgery in severe cases. Especially worth mentioning about pain drugs - they can help only in conjunction with specific drugs, which appoints the doctor-neurologist.
