Diabetic neuropathy and pain relief

Diabetic neuropathy and pain relief

Diabetes can literally get on your nerves. Burning, numbness, tingling, sharp pain, electric vibration - so often describe the sensation in hands, feet and the fingertips of people who have diabetic polyneuropathy (a complication of diabetes). If you ignore the illness, it is with a considerable degree of probability will be developed. However, together with your doctor and with the help of modern medicine, you can put the pain barrier.

Why does it hurt?

Neuralgia develops gradually. The longer the time pain exist, the stronger pain. It causes serious damage to the nerve cells and eventually lead to their extinction. Since the nervous system may lose the ability to control the painful feeling

Medication against pain

For those who barely perceptible to pain, low potency anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen and acetaminophen are very suitable. But if the patient experiences severe pain, it makes no sense to start with low-level drugs. The emergence of non-narcotic drugs, most of which belong to the family of antidepressants and anticonvulsants, changed the approach to the treatment of pain in diabetic neuropathy.

Topical treatment

Local analgesics in the form of a cream or gel can ease tingling, numbness or aching pain in the extremities.Capsaicin have a positive effect, butits not easy to use for people with a burning pain, because Capsaicin itself burns and pricks - as a result, the pain only increases.

Unlike capsaicin, lidocaine anesthetics are applied to the skin in the form of an elastic adhesive (LIDODERM), which does not irritate the skin. The patch can be applied for pain relief to the most affected areas not more than12 hours.

Preventing pain

It is easier and cheaper to prevent pain than to treat it. In addition to careful control of blood sugar. There are three ways to prevent the occurrence of nerve pain: