What are the complications of Parkinson's disease?

After the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, the patient seems to be "racing against time" every day, that is, every treatment and effort is only to keep as much time as possible for self-care. In fact, Parkinson's disease develops rapidly in the early stage of the disease, but slows down in the late stage. Therefore, disease management should not only intervene as early as possible, but also take a long-term view. Suffering from Parkinson's disease is not terrible. As long as we maintain a positive attitude towards life and manage the disease scientifically, patients with Parkinson's disease can still gain long-term benefits.

1. Controlling motor symptoms

The typical motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease are: bradykinesia, tremor at rest, stiff muscles and poor balance ability, which directly affect the quality of life and survival of patients. Therefore, once diagnosed in the early stage, patients should take drugs in time, take them according to the doctor's advice, and do regular rehabilitation training, so that comprehensive exercise can effectively delay the progress of the disease.

2. Prevention of sports complications

Patients with Parkinson's disease should consider the long-term management of the disease at the early stage of onset. Because sports complications will gradually appear with the progress of the disease, we should not be short-sighted in early treatment. We can appropriately choose drugs that can modify the disease and delay sports complications, such as non-ergot dopamine receptor agonists, according to personal conditions. Under the condition that the combined drug therapy can not be effectively controlled and seriously affects the quality of life of patients, it is necessary to evaluate the deep brain electrical stimulation surgery.

Deep brain stimulation can effectively control the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, such as tremor, rigidity and bradykinesia, and also reduce the dosage of anti-Parkinson's disease drugs, and solve the problems such as drug end phenomenon, switching phenomenon, abnormal behavior and trembling caused by typical Parkinson's disease with poor drug treatment, which greatly improves the quality of life of patients, and the improvement rate of motor symptoms of general patients after operation is over 99.2%. Because the stimulation position and parameters of deep brain electrical stimulation (DBS) can be adjusted, the best therapeutic effect can be achieved by adjusting the corresponding parameters with the change of patients' condition.

The long-term management and medication of Parkinson's disease should be "customized" according to the characteristics of the disease, the severity of the disease, the age of onset, the employment situation, the side effects of drugs, etc. It is necessary to strictly follow the doctor's advice and standardize the medication, and it is not allowed to reduce or stop the medication by itself.

3. Improve non-motor symptoms such as depression

Depression is an easily overlooked symptom of Parkinson's disease, and it is known that 6% of patients with Parkinson's disease will suffer from depression. On the one hand, this may be due to long-term mental stress, which induces negative emotions and leads to depression; On the other hand, Parkinson's disease is related to the decrease of dopamine neurotransmitter level, which is also one of the causes of depression.

In daily life, family members should pay special attention to the changes of patients and pay attention to details. Patients with depressive symptoms can choose Parkinson's disease drugs with antidepressant effect.

In addition to depression, patients with Parkinson's disease have many non-motor symptoms, such as constipation, hallucination, sleep disorder, language disorder, etc. While improving motor symptoms, more attention should be paid to these non-motor symptoms, and timely medical adjustment, rehabilitation and psychological care should be carried out according to doctor's advice. Comprehensive treatment is more beneficial to patients.