What happens in Polyneuritis?

Polyneuropathy is a condition in which a person’s peripheral nerves are damaged. These are nerves that run throughout your body. Polyneuropathy affects the nerves in your skin, muscles, and organs. When nerves are damaged, they can’t send regular signals back to your brain.

What is the cause of Polyneuritis?

Polyneuropathy can have a wide variety of causes, including exposure to certain toxins such as with alcohol abuse, poor nutrition (particularly vitamin B deficiency), and complications from diseases such as cancer or kidney failure.

What is Polyneuritis?

(PAH-lee-noo-RY-tis) Inflammation of several peripheral nerves at the same time.

What are the symptoms of idiopathic polyneuropathy?

In idiopathic sensory-motor polyneuropathy, the patients may experience unusual sensations (paresthesias), numbness and pain in their hands and feet. In addition, there may be weakness of the muscles in the feet and hands.

Is polyneuritis and polyneuropathy the same?

The term polyneuritis (or polyneuropathy) refers to an illness marked by disordered function of several or many peripheral nerves. There is resultant motor weakness, sensory loss, and pain in varying proportions. Tendon reflexes are usually absent or diminished in affected regions.

What is the difference between idiopathic neuropathy and peripheral neuropathy?

Neuropathy is when nerve damage interferes with the functioning of the peripheral nervous system (PNS). When the cause can’t be determined, it’s called idiopathic neuropathy. The PNS carries information from the central nervous system (CNS), or brain and spinal cord, to the rest of the body.

What is the difference between neuropathy and polyneuropathy?

Some forms of neuropathy involve damage to only one nerve (called mononeuropathy). Neuropathy affecting two or more nerves in different areas is called multiple mononeuropathy or mononeuropathy multiplex. More often, many or most of the nerves are affected (called polyneuropathy).