Symptom
Paresthesia
Abnormal cutaneous sensation characterized by tingling, pricking, “pins and needles,” or creeping dysesthesia, typically without an identifiable external stimulus. Commonly due to irritation, compression, or dysfunction of peripheral or central sensory nerve pathways, causing them to misfire. Possible temporary causes are nerve compression (posture), hyperventilation, direct trauma to the nerve, dehydration, and migraine. Possible chronic causes are diabetes, carpal tunnel syndrome, meralgia paresthetica, vitamin deficiency (B12, B6, E, niacin), multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and toxins (alcohol abuse, heavy metal exposure, chemotherapy).
Also known as: Paraesthesia, Numbness, Tingling
Referencing diagnoses
- Acute extremity ischemia
- Acute intermittent porphyria
- Amyloidosis
- Aortic dissection
- Bell's Palsy
- Brain abscess
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Celiac disease
- Chronic limb ischemia
- Compartment syndrome
- Discitis
- Electrical injury
- Encephalitis
- Endocarditis
- Epidural hematoma
- Epilepsy
- Fracture
- Herpes zoster
- Hyperkalemia
- Hypermagnesemia
- Hypocalcemia
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Intracerebral hemorrhage
- Lead toxicity
- Leporsy
- Lung cancer
- Lyme disease
- Metastatic bone tumors
- Migraine
- Multiple myeloma
- Multiple sclerosis
- Pituitary adenoma
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Polyneuropathy
- Respiratory alkalosis
- Retroperitoneal hemorrhage
- Ruptured aortic aneurysm
- Schistosomiasis
- Sjogren syndrome
- Spinal disc herniation
- Spinal stenosis
- Stroke
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Subdural hematoma
- Syphilis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
- Transient ischemic attack
- VIPoma
- Vitamin B12 deficiency
- Wegener's granulomatosis
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