Peripherial Neuropathy

Tipo: Multiple causes

Pair

damaged nerve - kidney

 

*This pair has not been studied, you can test it on the damaged nerve.

Generalities:

Peripheral neuropathy is the damage to the peripheral nerves, particularly in the extremities. It can affect a single nerve or affect several of them in different parts of the body. It presents with different symptoms depending on whether it affects sensory, motor or autonomic nerves. The main symptoms are usually:

Symptoms:

  • Loss of muscle coordination
  • Muscular atrophy
  • Hypersensitivity to touch
  • Feeling of numbness
  • Intense pain: throbbing, pulsing, or a feeling of frostbite or burning

When it comes to nerves of the autonomic nervous system the symptoms can be:

  • Sweating, intolerance to temperature changes
  • Alterations of the digestive system, or bladder
  • Changes in blood pressure, dizziness, lightheadedness.

Causes:

It can be due to multiple causes:

 

 

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