Medications
Some medicines and treatments also cause peripheral neuropathy as a side effect. This is known as drug-induced peripheral neuropathy (DIPN).
Drug-induced peripheral neuropathy (DIPN) or neuropathy secondary to drugs involves a loss of sensation or movement in a part of the body due to nerve damage resulting from taking a particular medicine, a combination of drugs, or undergoing medical treatments. The toxic effects of the medication, like other causative diseases of peripheral neuropathy, also damages the axons and the myelin sheath, resulting in interference in the nerve signals transmitted through the axons. This usually causes multiple nerve damage (polyneuropathy), resulting in the exhibition of symptoms like changes in distal and proximal sensations, muscle weakness, and burning pain.
Some drugs and medications that can cause drug-induced peripheral neuropathy (DIPN) include heart or blood pressure drugs, chemotherapy drugs, drugs used to fight infections, medicines used to treat autoimmune diseases, medications used to treat seizures, anti-alcohol drugs, and drugs to fight HIV/AIDS, chemotherapeutic agents, cardiovascular drugs, psychotropic, antimicrobials, antibiotics, and anticonvulsants.
