Perhaps not too many people know about Parkinson's disease.
In 2012, Sergey Brin, one of google's founders, donated a huge amount of $132 million to Parkinson's disease treatment research institutions from 2005 to 2012 due to family genetic reasons!
Parkinson's, what kind of disease is it?
At present, the research on parkinson's disease is not too deep, this disease belongs to the movement disorder disease in neurology, also known as tremor paralysis.
The disease occurs most often in the elderly, and according to the data, the incidence of the elderly population over 65 years old is 2%, and the number of Parkinson's disease patients in the mainland has exceeded 2 million.
Many people think that Parkinson's disease can only appear in the elderly, in fact, many young people are beginning to have this disease now. If there is a problem with the motor pathway, the corresponding symptoms will occur.
Patients often have symptoms of shaking hands and feet, which have a great impact on the quality of daily life.
Maybe Parkinson's disease could have been detected earlier?
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease with early symptoms of slow behavior, muscle stiffness, and tremor. People also go to the hospital to check for Parkinson's disease after these early symptoms.
Lesions of the brain already appear before these symptoms appear:
First, tremors
Usually the patient presents with pill-like movements of unilateral fingers, which then develop into involuntary rhythmic shaking of the ipsilateral lower and contralateral limbs at rest, and tremors increase with mood changes.
Second, facial joints are stiff and muscles are tense
This is also one of the early manifestations, when the facial muscles are affected, the patient will become sluggish, the facial expression will gradually become stiff, blinking and swallowing will be relatively difficult, and the voice will become weaker.
Third, the regular hand movements are also gradually slowed
In the early stages, Parkinson's patients will slow down in the fine movements of the upper limbs such as tying shoelaces and buttons, and even fail to complete them smoothly. It was getting harder and harder to write, and the handwriting was bent and getting smaller.
Fourth, abnormal gait
Difficulties when people get up from bed or chair, especially when standing, tend to adopt a flexion position and become difficult when starting.
As the disease progresses, the patient will panic and take a step forward, the steps are small, the faster and faster, can not stop in time. During the process, the coordinated swing of the arm decreases or even disappears, and when turning around, it takes several small steps in a row to achieve it.
Once you have Parkinson's disease, what do you need to pay attention to in your daily life?
Because Parkinson's patients are mainly manifested as muscle stiffness and movement disorders, they often manifest themselves as many inconveniences in daily life.
In addition to the need for patients to actively cooperate with treatment, they also need to do these points in their daily lives:
1. Proper exercise
Projects such as Tai Chi Chuan and Tai Chi Sword help the patient to balance the function and can help the patient's body organ function to be restored.
2. Eat a balanced diet
Food should be diverse, eat more cereals, grains, fruits, vegetables. During the medication, appropriately limit the intake of protein, try not to eat fatty meat, meat oil and animal offal, drink 6 to 8 glasses of water every day, and keep the bowel movements unobstructed.
3. Try to eat while taking the drug when it is effective
Do not feed when you are unconscious.
During daily eating, if the patient cannot hold the cup with trembling hands, he can drink water through a straw. Fixing dishes with non-slip mats can make eating easier, and using a large number of tableware can make eating more difficult.
In addition, psychological interventions and counseling are also important. Patients should acknowledge and face reality, and let patients, families and everyone know that the treatment of disease is a struggle and contest between "healthy self" and "sick self", which is a protracted battle.
The real opponent is yourself, and you can only win by defeating yourself.
Parkinson's disease is common in older people, but many patients do not know they have Parkinson's disease when they develop symptoms. Therefore, the understanding of Parkinson's disease is not enough, naturally it cannot be found in time, or treated with the correct method in time.