SIMPLE NEURITIS SYMPTOMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21130, 12 March 1932, Page 7 (Supplement)

SIMPLE NEURITIS SYMPTOMS.

BY A FAMILY DOCTOR.

The disease is generally seen in young adults and during the first half of adult life; it is commoner in women. Ibe symptoms may come on fairly suddenly or they may come on insidiously. There is pain of a dull aching nature along the course of the nerve affected, and this from time to time is increased to sharp lance-like twinges. There is tenderness over .the nerve affected down the back of the thigh, for example in sciatica—and "the pain is increased m those movements of the limb wtich tend to stretch the nerve—e.g., bending foiward at the hips in sciatica. There may be tingling, pins and needles, and burning sensations in the part affected. The limb in question is liable to be thinner than the other. The pain tends to be worse in cold and especially in damp weather. Some people have a single attack which, after a few weeks is cured and never returns. Others, are liable to recurrences of the complaint, the return generally coming when the weather is bad. It is a general rule that, the severe cases when cured are unlikely to recur; whereas mild cases arc very likely to have relapses. Probably this is in pait due to the fact that the severe cases follow out their treatment more rigorously.