What harm does myasthenia gravis have in taking western medicine?

Myasthenia is a disease with long course and difficult treatment. Such a disease will bring great pain to patients and a great burden to families. But many people don't know much about what kind of disease myasthenia is. Because of this, many patients receive treatment only when their condition is very serious, which brings greater burden to their families. In view of this situation, Bian Xiao consulted the relevant experts on myasthenia gravis, so let's talk about it.

What is myasthenia gravis:

The clinical manifestations of myasthenia include drooping eyelids, diplopia, strabismus, muscle weakness in expression and chewing, apathy in expression, and inability to blow air on cheeks. However, myasthenia gravis in the medulla oblongata has poor language, tongue spitting, eating difficulty, eating cough and so on. The cause of this disease is systemic, but the involved muscles will have different clinical manifestations due to different emphases.

Special clinical manifestations of myasthenia gravis;

Muscle weakness can occur in all ages, but most of them are 15-35 years old, and the ratio of male to female is about 1: 2. The onset of the disease varies from acute to slow, and the attack is mostly hidden. The main manifestations are skeletal muscle abnormalities and fatigue. Often the muscle strength is not bad in the morning, and the symptoms are aggravated in the afternoon or evening. Most patients involve extraocular muscles, especially levator palpebrae superioris. With the development of the disease, more extraocular muscles may be involved and diplopia may occur. Finally, the eyeball can be fixed, but generally the muscles in the eye will not be involved.

In addition, the muscles that dominate the medulla oblongata, neck muscles, scapular muscles, trunk muscles and upper and lower limbs can all be involved. If you talk for too long, your voice will gradually become lower, and your words will be unclear and nasal. Due to the weakness of mandible, mandible, swallowing muscle and intercostal muscle, it will affect your chewing and swallowing function, and even make it difficult to breathe.

Temporary remission, remission, recurrence and deterioration of myasthenia symptoms often appear alternately, which constitutes an important feature of this disease. According to the range and degree of involved muscles, they are generally divided into eye muscle type, medullary muscle involved type and systemic type.

There are also a few fulminant types with rapid onset, and myasthenia of medulla oblongata and dyspnea can occur within a few days to weeks, and all types can coexist or transform with each other. Childhood myasthenia gravis refers to the onset from newborn to adolescence. Except for a few cases of generalized myasthenia gravis, most of them are confined to extraocular muscles.

The above is Bian Xiao's consultation about muscle weakness, which may not be complete, but I hope it can help you. I also hope that the majority of friends can go to the hospital as soon as possible for relevant examinations if they have any abnormal physical conditions. Early detection and treatment of diseases are the guarantee of regaining health. Finally, I wish the patients and friends a speedy recovery.