Muscle weakness

Nerve disease, which is accompanied by fatigue of the striated muscle, is called myasthenia. This is a true muscle weakness, but often such complaints are only a symptom of other diseases and pathologies of internal organs.

Causes of muscle weakness

If the considered ailment is not myasthenia gravis, then the following diseases can provoke a decrease in motor activity:

• Guillain-Barre syndrome;
• stroke;
• Neuropathy;
• Addison's disease;
• amyotrophic lateral sclerosis;
• thyrotoxicosis ;
• polymyositis;
• Multiple sclerosis;
• Bell's paralysis;
• hyperparathyroidism;
• dermatomyositis;
• cerebral paralysis;
• mitochondrial myopathy;
• muscular dystrophy;
• a lower concentration of calcium and potassium in the body;
• polio;
• botulism ;
• anemia;
• insecticide poisoning.

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In the event that the prerequisite of the described complaint is the true myasthenia gravis, its cause lies in the violation of the work of the synapses. As a rule, this provokes the production of immunity by antibodies that interfere with the development and assimilation of a substance that ensures the transmission of nerve impulses - acetylcholine. Therefore, myasthenia gravis is regarded in the medical community as an autoimmune pathology.

It is worth noting that, despite the prolonged course of the disease, the muscles do not lose potential and are able to fully recover.

Symptoms of muscle weakness

First of all, the clinical signs of the disease is fast fatigue, even with daily physical exertion. Other manifestations:

• defeat of speech, swallowing muscles;
• decreased activity of muscle fibers of the limbs;
• the spread of the symptoms to the muscles of the neck and respiratory musculature.

Treatment of severe muscle weakness

Therapy is aimed at eliminating the characteristic symptomatology and normalizing the concentration of acetylcholine in the body. The following medicines are used, which suppress the activity immune system and the production of antibodies:

• Oxazyl;
• Prednisolone;
• Kalimin;
• Proserin;
• Metizred.

Important physiotherapy methods of influence, such as acupuncture, gymnastics, electrophoresis, darsonvalization. If the above methods are ineffective, more radical measures are recommended: irradiation of the thymus gland or even its removal during the operation.