Many people sometimes feel their fingers numb and think it's no big deal. They may think that they may have crushed their fingers while sleeping, but if this is always the case, they should be vigilant. What always numbs their fingers? What disease is finger numbness? Let's look at the health reasons.

1, finger numbness

Hypertension: numbness of hands and feet in patients with hypertension often occurs when blood pressure suddenly rises. At this time, the patient's whole body twitched, the arterial lumen narrowed, and the blood return of the limbs was blocked, resulting in numbness.

Gout: clinically, about 1% of patients with hand numbness are caused by gout, and most of them are caused by the precipitation of uric acid on the median nerve and the compression of the median nerve.

Cervical spondylosis: People who often have numbness in their hands are often sedentary middle-aged and elderly people and white-collar workers with abnormal cervical posture. Cervical spondylosis leads to the protrusion or hyperplasia of cervical intervertebral disc, which makes the related joints compress the adjacent cervical roots, and then the symptoms of finger numbness will appear.

Cell phone elbow: mainly answer the phone with a cell phone or sleep with a curved arm pillow, which oppresses the nerve line and leads to numbness and weakness of fingers.

Arteriosclerosis: numbness or hemiplegia of one upper limb/lower limb usually lasts for several hours to several days. If not treated in time, it will develop into hemiplegia and paralysis.

Diabetes: The common numbness symptom of diabetic patients is bilateral symmetrical finger numbness. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy is a common complication of diabetes. Many diabetic patients have poor blood sugar control, and there will be complications such as numbness in the early stage.

Chronic alcoholism: For some people who often drink alcohol, finger numbness is most likely chronic alcoholism.

Peripheral neuritis: If the patient has poor digestive function, malnutrition and numbness of hands and feet, it is necessary to consider whether it is caused by vitamin B 1 deficiency. In this case, we only need to pay attention to supplement nutrition, especially vitamin B 1, which can relieve the symptoms well.

Autonomic nerve dysfunction: numbness caused by autonomic nerve dysfunction, the affected part is often not fixed, and the symptoms are mild and severe, but emotional changes are often aggravated. Patients are often accompanied by insomnia, dreaminess, anxiety, irritability, palpitation, shortness of breath, memory loss and so on.

Side effects: sulfanilamide, furazolidone and other antibacterial drugs, remifentanil, ethambutol and other anti-tuberculosis drugs, vindesine and other chemotherapy drugs, if used in large doses or for a long time, will appear numbness in hands and feet, starting from hands and feet, gradually spread upward, often accompanied by allergic reactions.

2. Possible diseases of hand numbness

1 cervical vertebra factor

There are many reasons for hand numbness. More than 70% of the clinical causes are cervical spine problems. There are two cervical nerves in the intervertebral foramen of cervical vertebra, the anterior branch goes from the lower side to the forearm, and the posterior branch goes around the posterior joint of cervical vertebra to the rear, which is distributed in the posterior muscle group of cervical vertebra. Whether the cervical nerve of the anterior branch or the posterior branch is compressed, it will cause hand numbness. Therefore, people who work at their desks for a long time and bow their heads to play with mobile phones and computers are prone to cervical spondylosis due to the compression of cervical nerves, which leads to frequent numbness in their hands. It is recommended not to sit for a long time or maintain a bad posture, and adjust the sitting posture or hand posture in time to avoid oppressing blood vessels, resulting in poor blood circulation and numbness of hands.

2 Neurological factors

If the thumb, forefinger and middle finger often wake up at night with numbness and pain, a little activity after waking up can relieve the pain. This is carpal tunnel syndrome, which is caused by the compression of the median nerve of the wrist. If the bracelet and little finger also wake up at night because of numbness, this is "cubital tunnel syndrome", which is caused by compression of the elbow nerve. If nerve-induced hand numbness is not treated in time, it is easy to cause hand muscle atrophy and affect the normal activities of the hand.

Three brain factors

The brain shows neural activity. If there is something wrong with the brain, you can't control the activities of your limbs, resulting in numbness in your hands. Stroke patients will have symptoms of arm numbness, which is caused by brain factors.

4 Systematic factors

Hyperglycemia, high blood value and other factors can easily lead to vascular wall sclerosis, blood viscosity, slow blood flow, so that blood flow is not smooth, thus causing hand numbness. This is also the reason why most patients with cardiovascular diseases often have symptoms such as numbness of hands and weakness of limbs.

Occasionally, you don't have to worry too much about hand numbness caused by long-term oppression, but once your hands get numb, it's like the feeling that countless ants are going to climb over, which is very uncomfortable. So, is there any way to relieve hand numbness?

Two methods to relieve hand numbness

Method 1: Keep your arms straight forward, palms down, fingers crossed and closed, and do 10 for 20 times, which can relieve numbness.

Method 2: Hold the plastic bottle filled with water with palm down, gently lift and lower your wrist, and repeat 10-20 times to relieve numbness.