Myalgia

Myalgia (Greek μυαλγία, muscle pain ' of μυς mys, muscle ' and άλγος algos, pain ') is the medical term for muscle pain.

For muscle pain after exertion is called muscle soreness.

Myalgia often occur as a symptom of a variety of diseases. A typical symptom they are many kinds of infection, for example,

• Colds by infection with adenovirus or coxsackie virus type B4 and B3 (so-called Bornholm 's disease)
• The actual flu (influenza)
• The transmitted by tick bite babesiosis ( Babesia microti infection caused by the protozoa or Babesia divergens ) and ehrlichiosis ( infection caused by the bacterium Anaplasma phagocytophilum obligate intraleukozytäre )
• Transmitted from rats, mice, domestic and wild animals leptospirosis
• Trichinosis ( in Central Europe despite testing for Trichinella at slaughter of meat still the most common worm disease by Trichinella spiralis )
• Of Lyme disease
• Malaria
• Throughout the Mediterranean region occurring familial Mediterranean fever

Also in many diseases of rheumatic and vasculitis occur in the disease process often muscle pain.

In polymyalgia rheumatica, the eosinophilic myalgia syndrome ( in therapy with L- tryptophan ) and the fibromyalgia syndrome of muscle pain as a symptom for the diagnosis is even groundbreaking.

A common cause of myalgia in general practice are stress states and stress factors at work and in sports practice.