What Causes Numbness In Hands While On PICC?

Posted on Sun, 28 Feb 2016

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Sun, 28 Feb 2016 Answered on

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Question : Wife has picc line and numb hand.

gender female

Answered by Dr. Ivo Ditah (27 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
For how long? Any pains?

Detailed Answer:
HI and thank you so much for this query.

I am so sorry to hear about this numb hand. Probably, this is related to local products applied to the are when the land was being inserted. I will like for how long this has been going on and if there is any other symptom such as pain, fever, etc.

For now, I will say be calm unless something else comes up. This feeling of numbness is often transient and gets resolve spontaneously in the next few days.

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