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Many of us have experienced a feeling of numbness in the hands or feet - this is the body's reaction to nerve compression or local blood supply disruption. If you stay in an uncomfortable position for a long time, your hands or feet become numb," sensitivity is lost, and then unpleasant pain and tingling appear. This feeling, as a rule, passes after changing the posture.
If the cause of the numbness of the limbs is not an uncomfortable posture, then these sensations can be a harbinger of a serious disease, doctors note.
This is how diabetes of the second type can manifest itself - usually it is the legs that become numb. One of the complications of diabetes is diabetic neuropathy, damage to sensitive, motor and autonomic nerves due to impaired blood flow in small vessels. One of the possible symptoms is numbness of the limbs.
The legs and arms are numb and with Lyme disease, herpes zoster.
In addition, in this way the body can signal that it lacks vitamins B6 and B12. And elderly people often face numbness of the limbs due to peripheral neuropathy.
One of the most common conditions that leads to compression of nerve roots is intervertebral hernia. Most often, it is formed in the lumbar spine.
In any case, you should go to the doctor, and not engage in self-medication.
