Symptoms and Harms of Paraplegia


Symptoms and Harms of Paraplegia
Paraplegia is a disease with high disability, which brings a lot of pains to patients. In clinic, patients mainly have the following symptoms:



1. Pain: Patients will feel pain from the upper abdomen to feet all the time, as if being pricked by thousands of needles, sometime just as if a knife is being twisted sometimes and sometimes like being burned by fire. Moreover, patients may feel rigid pains in the whole lower part of the body just like being perfused with cements.

2. Spasm: Spasm will appear in the part from waist to feet and is sensitive to sounds. Sudden sounds may aggravate the pain and spasm.

3. From waist to feet, patients never sweat and have no fever, slow enterokinesis,  constipation and others.

4. Incontinence: For patients with paraplegia, the control message for urination of brain can’t be sent so patients themselves don’t feel urine but may urinate at any time and place. Urethral catheter is required for urination and evacuant is required for evacuating bowels.
5. Loss of skin sensation: Patients can’t feel the touch pressure and pain on the skin surface or temperature.

6. Limb paralysis: The greatest pain of patients with paraplegia is limb paralysis because it is very inconvenient for them in life and action.

7. Muscle atrophy: Due to lying in bed for a long time, patients with paraplegia have few muscle activity, and the nutrition and oxygen supply for muscle will reduce obviously. Over time, patients will suffer from muscle atrophy and dry skin, desquamation and other symptoms due to  nutrient deficiency.

In addition to above symptoms, paraplegia also can result in some serious and difficult to handle complications. In daily life, attentions shall be paid to avoiding these complications.

1. Bedsore: It is also called as pressure sore. The main causes of bedsore are long-term lying in bed, local pressure, sense and movement disorder, unconsciousness and poor blood circulation. Especially the scald caused when washing feet and hands or heating, under poor sanitation condition, once bedsore occurred, it is most likely to cause infection. Bedsore mainly occurs in: buttock, sacrococcygeal region, hip, heels and other parts with more area exposure to the bed as well as parts with poor muscle elasticity.

2. Urinary tract infection and bladder infection

Patients with paraplegia have urinary incontinence, leading to local poor sanitation condition, which is easy to cause infection.

3. Pneumonia
Due to long-term lying in bed, poor drainage of pulmonary secretions and no strength to cough due to respiratory muscle paralysis, patients are easily to suffer from pneumonia.


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