FEELING TIRED - asthenia
Disease information
FEELING TIRED - asthenia
Fatigue -
Asthenia
.
Definition.
The fatigue is defined as the incapacity to maintain an initial force during
a
continuous effort.
This definition is incomplete, because in fact it would be necessary to differentiate two types from fatigue:
• the fatigue produced by
a
effort, that is
a
normal
physiological situation.
• the fatigue that even appears after
a
slight effort or before any effort. More it is adapted to speak in this last case of
asthenia
.
1. Fatigue produced by
a
effort.
The fatigue is
a
normal
situation, as long as it is consequence of an intense or prolonged effort.
During the physical exercise, the organism uses its reserves of progressive form, to be able thus, to transform them into
energy
. The fatigue sensation becomes evident when it is let satisfy to the power necessities. The fatigue is
a
physiological signal that it indicates that the possibilities of
spontaneous
regulation are outside their limits. In this case, the
muscular
fatigue can be denominated "normal fatigue". After
a
repairing rest, everything returns to normality.
2.
Asthenia
.
The
asthenia
is
a
fatigue lasting, that persists to the margin of any effort, insensible or little sensible to the rest.
In most of the cases, any
organic
etiología is not revealed. One often treats, of
a
fatigue caused by an excessive
activity
, the
stress
or the changes of
station
. One says that the fatigue is
a
psychosomatic effect. Generally, this
asthenia
is become serious in the
morning
, tending to disappear throughout the day.
In other cases the
asthenia
appears described within
a
psychiatric frame, in which the reaccional
depression
occupies the most excellent
position
. However, one is not due to forget that the
asthenia
also can be, the signal of alarm of an underlying pathology.
They are possible numerous etiologías:
infectious
,
metabolic
, endocrina, neurological. It only can be spoken of
asthenia
when the possibility of
a
fatigue originated by
organic
causes
has
discarded.
The
asthenia
is pronounced through numerous signs that are translated in
a
diminution of the physical
activity
(exhaustion, adinamia) and intellectual (loss of memory, concentration
problems
) These signs go associate generally, to manifestations of physical
nature
: anxiety, demotivation, abulia, diminution of the líbido one.
It is very difficult that all these symptoms appear of an isolated form, go accompanied, according to the cases, of
problems
of dream (
insomnia
or hipersomnio) of abdominal palpitaciones, migraines, pains etc.
In the case of the functional
asthenia
, the symptoms do not come from an exhaustion of the power reserves,
but
rather from
a
bad management of the same ones.
Mechanisms of the
Asthenia
.
The present theory of the neurofisiólogos aims at the intervention of the center of the watch in the
asthenia
phenomena. This one is located in the reticular zone of the
cerebral
trunk and receives the name of reticular
system
activator (S. R.
A
. This S. R.
A
. reinforces the reflected motor
activity
, the watch and the perception, besides to
activate
certain cortical cells. The nonactivation of this center, is responsible for the appearance of diverse manifestations of the fatigue at
peripheral
level. This would explain the polimorfa sintomatología of the
asthenia
.
Treatment.
The treatment of the functional asthenias rests on two great bases:
dietetic
rules and
fitoterapia
.
1.
Dietetic
Rules.
The
asthenia
can appear as an announcing sign of other present
diseases
:
obesity
,
diabetes
, hiperlipidemia, aterosclerosis, overload
metabolic
.
In order to fight against the
asthenia
he would be then, indispensable the adoption of some simple
dietetic
rules.
The western feeding takes to excesses and defects of certain indispensable elements. In spite of the abundance and diversity of consumed foods, the recent statistics reveal singulars deficiencies in vitamins, minerals and oligoelementos.
2.
Fitoterapia
.
In case of
asthenia
, the classic treatments propose the exciting product ingestion.
The
fitoterapia
allows to treat the
asthenia
about
a
global
form and in depth. For this aim, it is counted mainly on three plants of well - known antiasthenic effects:
Ginseng
,
Eleuterococo
and
Cola
.
Plants adapted for this
disease
.
Ginseng of Korea
.
Eleuterococo
.
Tail (
nut of
)
Guaraná
.
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