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OTHER NAMES
- Asthenia,
- Depletion,
- Lethargy.
DEFINITION
The weariness is a subjective sensation of absence of physical or intellectual energy or of both.
REMARKS
Not always the weariness is similar to the drowsiness although they can collaborate. Neither always collaborate the physical and intellectual weariness or apathy.
The depletion is an important and normal answer after a physical effort, emotional tension, or lack of sleep.
When the weariness or depletion with or without drowsiness or with or without apathy it appears without well-known cause that justifies it it is when it is necessary to take like a symptom that must be studied from the medical point of view.
The weariness that appears after a beginning of the normal day, and in which the person is exhausted before the normal thing is what can suggest some underlying illness. The weariness from the morning, even already on having woken up, can indicate a psychic depression. Although these terms not always are final.
It is necessary to bear in mind that the weariness usually appears in normal situations of the life because of boredom, unhappiness, disappointment, lack of sleep, or hard work.
CAUSES OF THE WEARINESS
- Acromegalia
- Anemia
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Hay fever or polinosis (allergy to the pollen)
- Endogenous depression
- Illness of Addison
- Hipotiroidismo
- Bacterial chronic infections (endocarditis, urinal infections, etc...)
- Viral infections (mononucleosis, hepatitis, flu)
- Chronic insomnia
- Congestive heart failure
- Lupus Eritematoso Sistémico
- Medicines (antiallergic, antihypertensive, sedative, diuretics, etc...)
- Postoperative
- BEEN
- Tuberculosis
TREATMENT AND DIAGNOSIS
First of all the normal causes of weariness must fit as there are the physical effort, the emotional tension, or the lack of sleep. That is to say to do exercise adapted to every person, to avoid the causes of the tension or of the stress, to improve the sleep rhythms, etc...
In the diet it is necessary to insist on doing the balanced meals and at his hours.
To avoid, if it is possible, to take medicines that produce weariness (antiallergic, antihypertensive, sedative, diuretics, etc...).
The vitamins cannot solve the problem, but sometimes it is usually a therapy of support that is used by certain efficiency.
If in spite of it it does not improve in weariness it will have to come to his doctor. East, after a case history and a physical exploration, which will include a special attention to the heart, lungs, and thyroid gland, can realize a few diagnostic studies:
- Analysis hematológico and finished biochemist
- Study of anemia (I shoe, transferrina, etc...)
- You try thyroid function (T3, T4, TSH, etc...)
- Urine analysis.
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