Minor pain or major problems
Published Time:
2016-06-14
Almost everyone has experienced pain in their lives, but due to a lack of understanding about pain, people often treat pain relievers as a panacea. Experts believe that pain may be a surface symptom of a deeper disease and should not be ignored.
Ms. Lin, a financial accountant at a foreign company in Changchun, Jilin Province, has a busy job and has been suffering from headaches recently. She had a CT scan at the hospital, but nothing was found. Recently, the pain became unbearable, so she went to a hospital's pain treatment center. It turned out that the pain was caused by cerebral vasospasm; if left untreated, it could lead to cerebral hemorrhage.
Li He, attending physician at the Pain Treatment Center of the First Clinical Hospital of Jilin University, said that pain is the fifth vital sign of human beings after respiration, pulse, body temperature, and blood pressure. It is an important signal of illness, and many chronic pains are diseases in themselves, not just symptoms. If a body part hurts for more than a month, one should realize that they may have chronic pain and should consult a pain clinic; or if a body part hurts and treatment in various hospital departments is ineffective, one should also consider seeing a pain clinic.
Regarding the phenomenon of many pain patients self-medicating with pain relievers, experts say that most painkillers, if taken excessively, can lead to dependence. Treating pain requires understanding the cause of the pain. One should not blindly relieve pain; without understanding the cause, blindly taking painkillers may temporarily alleviate symptoms, but it masks the true cause of the disease, easily delaying diagnosis.
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