What is lateral femoral cutaneous nerve neuritis?

Patient's question:

My relative has recently been feeling like there are countless ants crawling on the skin of their outer thigh. Then, they feel that area of the skin is a bit numb, and sometimes it even hurts. I searched for the symptoms online, and it said it might be lateral femoral cutaneous nerve neuritis. Hello, what is lateral femoral cutaneous nerve neuritis?

Doctor's answer:

It is actually a kind of neural sensory abnormality, which means that your nerves may transmit an incorrect concept, or these signals may produce many wrong responses after entering the central nervous system. This is when a series of clinical diagnostic symptoms occur. In such cases, you can consider neurotrophic treatment and use many oral neurotrophic drugs.

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