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What is neuropathic pain?
Neuropathic pain, unlike other types of pain, is a signal from the body to an irritant, and not the result of a violation in any tissues or organs. Neuropathic pain can be acute or chronic.
There can be many factors for the occurrence of neuropathic pain, but it is based on damage to any parts of the nervous system (central, peripheral, or sympathetic).
There are a number of conditions that can trigger the development of neuropathic pain:
- Shingles (herpes infection)
- Diabetes,
- Neuralgia,
- Multiple sclerosis,
- Chemical or radiation exposure,
- Stroke,
- Dermatological diseases.
A typical sign of neuropathic pain is allodynia - pain from touch, which normally does not (should not) cause pain in a person. The touch can be the smallest: water droplets, cotton wool, cool object, light friction, and the like.
Treatment of neuropathic pain involves examining and identifying the underlying diseases that caused it. In accordance with this fact, treatment is prescribed, which is aimed at eliminating pathologies that support neuropathic pain. In parallel, symptomatic therapy is carried out:
- drugs that calm the nervous system,
- local anesthetics (lidocaine),
- antiepileptic drugs (Gabapentin, Carbamazepine, Pregabalin).
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