Have you ever felt annoyed when typing because the tips of the fingers felt numb as a result of tingling? Tingling usually considered trivial, because it often occurs due to wrong sitting posture or muscle tension. And if you experience numbness not disebabkani by two things, then the tingling is warning there has been a serious health disorders.
Do tingling?
Tingling or paresthesias in medical science, is a particular sensation on the body surface that is not triggered by stimuli from the outside world. Actually paresthesias a taste sensation of cold or heat in a certain body part, or the sensation of taste covered with something. Paresthesias that arise when there is irritation of the nerve fibers that carry a tingling sensation.
What causes it?
Tingling happen if the nerves and blood vessels under pressure For example, while sitting cross-legged or bending the legs too long, then the nerve and blood supply is compromised. Tingling generally will subside if the body is experiencing driven.
Symptoms of a serious
illness, however if tingling did not disappear after the body is moved, or previously experienced only a small portion of organs but then spread to the wider part; or when originally only happens once in a while and become more frequent; or if the tingling became numbness, you should immediately see a doctor. Tingling of this kind is a symptom of a serious disease.
The doctor will investigate the body parts that experience tingling, breadth, where the initial numbness, tingling and development from the beginning. All of this information will show the cause of the problem. It could be on the peripheral nerves, the muscles, spinal cord, or even brain.
Some serious health problems characterized symptoms of tingling, among others:
Inflammation of the spinal cord (myelitis)
occurred in adults, sometimes preceded by a tingling symptoms of severe flu. Tingling perceived to be intensified, up from the toes to the navel (belly center). Symptoms develop into a thick sense on the surface of the skin. After this phase, the patient will have difficulty walking. These are symptoms of inflammation of the spinal cord, which occurs due to virus attacks called cytomegalovirus (CMV). Patients become unable to control urination. Defecation was difficult. The disease can be cured completely, it can also only partially healed, but there is also to be paralyzed.
Diabetes mellitus, or diabetes
In diabetes, tingling are symptoms of damage to the blood vessels. As a result, blood flow in the nerve endings decreases. Symptoms usually perceived foot thick, sometimes hot, and tingling in the fingertips constantly. Then accompanied stabbing pain, prickling at the end of the foot, especially at night.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS)
Tingling attacking fingertips, usually the right hand, and then evolved into a sense of thick, when used on the move, are symptoms of CTS. This tingling symptoms associated with cavity in the wrist (carpal) who have an enlarged muscles that compress the nerve that passes through the tunnel. CTS could be more serious disruption if left in place long enough, eg 1-2 years.
At this stage of muscle tension already interfere with blood flow to the hands, with the result that the muscles are experiencing a shortage of nutrients will shrink and weaken muscles.
Heart
In patients with heart pain, tingling may also arise due to complications of heart and nerves. That happened, for example, the patient underwent surgery heart valve installation. During setup, there is a blood clot attached, which is then carried by the flow of blood to the top, and blocks one of the blood vessels in the brain. If the blockage in the brain areas that regulate coincidence of the sensory system, the patient will feel a tingling door. When the local governing motor system is also affected, tingling will be paralysis.
Rheumatoid
arthritis also cause tingling or thick taste. Tingling due to arthritis symptoms will disappear when cured rheumatism.
