Sentences with phrase «nerve damage caused»

-- This condition is the result of peripheral nerve damage caused by high blood sugar levels.

Now Ive been through cancer and have brachial plexopathy in my left arm from nerve damage caused from the 8 hour operation I had trying to beat cancer!!!

The occupational therapist says I have some nerve damage caused by the cast and that it will take 6 months to a year to heal completely.

Nerve damage caused by diabetes (diabetic neuropathy).

Research suggests that taking zinc sulfate improves nerve function and reduces blood sugar in people with nerve damage caused by diabetes.

According to medical dictionaries, peripheral neuropathy is defined as a «nerve damage caused by chronically high blood sugar and diabetes.

Often the nerve damage caused by high sugar levels and statins are so profound that the condition is regarded as incurable or irreversible.

Peripheral neuropathy is defined as a nerve damage caused by chronically high blood sugar and diabetes.

She reports researcher Ippazio Antonazzo proposing several possible explanations, including nerve damage caused by diabetes making it more difficult for a person to sense migraine pain, or some treatment normalising the activity of insulin, making migraines less likely.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says more than 9 percent of the U.S. population has diabetes and an estimated 50 percent of people with diabetes have some form of diabetic peripheral neuropathy, nerve damage caused by high levels of blood sugar, although not all have symptoms.

Blocking the activity of a single enzyme can nearly halt the nerve damage caused by glaucoma in mice, according to a paper in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Arthur Neufeld and his colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis are among the labs looking for ways to block the nerve damage caused by the pressure buildup.

And it took some time for him to regain dexterity in his left hand after he persuaded a doctor to cut off the index finger, which throbbed with pain from nerve damage caused by radiation treatments.

Mackey persuaded a doctor to cut off his left index finger, which throbbed with pain from nerve damage caused by radiation treatments.

Other than paralysis, common car accident spine injuries can include muscular strains, herniated discs, arthritic spurring, and nerve damage causing extensive pain.

Not exact matches

The DOD - funded research will target the use of Sprint specifically for amputees suffering from moderate to severe neuropathic pain — chronic pain typically caused by nerve damage.

Opponents of circumcision argue the procedure can cause damage that ranges from nerve destruction and loss of normal tissue to infection, disfigurement and sometimes death.

Just as I started to come to grips with permanent nerve damage and an array of side effects caused by my treatments, another crisis struck.

I have read many things, most of which say chiles cause no nerve damage, but I have also read that capsaicin can in fact cause nerve damage (though they didn't mention the quantity).

Matta needed that demeanor after his world changed drastically in 2007 when a botched surgery caused nerve damage that led to «drop foot.»

That will soothe your damaged nipples and cover the nerve endings so it will also ease the pain but it is important to know the underlying cause which could still be attributed to latching on and positioning.

Breast Trauma — Have you ever had an accident or injury which has caused nerve damage?

In very rare cases, an epidural can cause permanent nerve damage to the mother.

They found the levels they detected around the baby to be high enough to cause nerve damage.

Pregnancy and delivery stretch the connective tissue at the base of the bladder and can cause nerve and muscle damage to the bladder or urethra.

Removing the child from her home and parents will cause far greater damage than the temporary nerve damage that happened during delivery.

During surgery, an incision may be made across or around the dark area around your nipples, which can cause nerve damage in this area.

Diabetes can cause nerve damage that leads to numbness in the feet.

[Robert Siman et al, Serum SNTF Increases in Concussed Professional Ice Hockey Players and Relates to the Severity of Post Concussion Symptoms] A strong blow to the head causes chemical changes within nerve cells that damage their structural proteins.

Neurologist Anne Louise Oaklander at Massachausetts General Hospital has shown the cause is far weirder: Nerve damage on one side actually creates a matching injury on the other side of the body.

Mice with this eye disease, which damages the optic nerve and causes vision loss, have higher levels of the immune molecule, which accumulates at retinal synapses before the neurons die.

Neutrophils are one of the most common types of immune cells and known to engulf microorganisms, but they are not normally associated with peripheral nerve damage, such as that caused by diabetes or trauma.

Payne keyed in the symptoms, and the computer program suggested a handful of potential conditions, including a rare disease called amyloidosis, in which abnormal proteins build up in the body, interfering with normal organ function and causing nerve damage.

The panel continues to recommend a three - part therapy that contains AZT, or the HIV inhibitor called TDF, in the place of stavudine, which can alter fat metabolism and cause nerve damage.

But their prominence at sites where nerve cells are damaged by the disease means they deserve careful scrutiny in the desperate search for ways to arrest the most salient cause of dementia.

The first, published in 2008, found that smoking marijuana reduced pain caused by nerve damage in 38 patients, with minimal side effects.

After a blood workup revealed the presence of hexane, a petroleum derivative known to cause nerve damage, Bolte asked her about her living conditions.

They also point out that the same mechanism found to cause damage to blood vessels in the eye may cause diabetic damage to the kidneys and nerves.

To see whether NOS - 2 might be causing the nerve damage, the researchers added an NOS - 2 inhibitor called aminoguanidine to the rats» drinking water.

They first injected a fragment of myelin protein into the brains of the test mice, causing nerve damage similar to that seen in MS patients.

What causes the initial nerve damage or incites the immune attack is still a big question.

The disease is generally pretty mild — on par with flu — but health workers have recently found that a small number of patients seem to go on to develop an autoimmune disorder that can cause nerve damage and paralysis called Guillain — Barré syndrome.

Neuropathic pain — chronic pain caused by nerve damage — is a significant problem, affecting around 8 per cent of Europeans.

The iPhone did get a clean bill of health from Greenpeace in several areas: no cadmium (a carcinogen) or mercury (a toxin known to cause nerve and organ damage) was detected, and lead and chromium (toxic if ingested or inhaled) were detected in a small proportion of samples and at relatively low concentrations.

The condition occurs when the facial nerve is damaged by swelling or pressure, but the exact cause of Bell's palsy is unknown.

Their findings, reported June 17 in the journal Neuron, could lead to treatments for chronic pain conditions caused by nerve damage, such as diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) and post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), as well as chronic inflammation, like rheumatoid arthritis.

When I was 8 years old, it caused this disorder called hydrocephalus where the tumor is blocking the cerebral fluid in the brain and that automatically creates pressure within the ventricles and it starts affecting different parts of the brain, and in my case it damaged my optic nerve.

More rigid traditional implants would have caused significant nerve tissue damage during this period of time.

Such nerve damage can cause partial or total paralysis.

«Our hypothesis is that it's this, the damaged nerve cells» resistance to maturation that causes the disease.»