What are the stages of Parkinson's disease?

Parkinson's disease is mainly manifested as motor symptoms such as slowness, shaking hands and stiff muscles, resulting in various non-motor symptoms, such as autonomic nervous disorders and sleep disorders. Generally speaking, Parkinson's disease is over 50 years old, and its symptoms gradually worsen after the onset. However, there are also cases under the age of 40, which is also called "young Parkinson's disease". With the progress of medical treatment, many new therapies have been continuously studied and put into clinical use, and some mature therapies have made some patients with Parkinson's disease recover. In order to improve the quality of life, many people all over the country are trying treatment.

Parkinson's disease began to show symptoms such as "slow movement" and "trembling hands and feet". Symptoms continue to deteriorate and it will become difficult to maintain balance. In the middle and late stage, walkers and wheelchairs are also necessary to prevent patients from falling. In dyskinesia, the "dopamine nerve" of dopamine molecule has fewer nerve cells. Parkinson's disease can reduce dopamine nerve. We think that abnormal protein accumulation in the brain may be the reason.

However, in order to make up for the deficiency of dopamine, drug therapy is also developing continuously. With the progress of treatment methods, Parkinson's disease is also known as a disease with a long life, even surpassing ordinary people! Because of a strange phenomenon, patients with Parkinson's disease rarely get other malignant diseases.

The main motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease are "slow movement", "static tremor" and "myotonia".

Slow movement is a symptom of slow movement. The "static shock" of trembling hands and feet is very different. "Myotonia" refers to the resistance that patients feel when their joints bend and straighten, which is difficult for patients to detect. Sometimes your mouth will drool, your voice will become smaller and your writing will become smaller. In addition, sometimes there will be "posture maintenance disorder" with aggravated symptoms and poor physical balance. When standing, walking or changing direction, if the balance function of the body is affected, it is easy to fall.

According to the severity classification of Parkinson's disease, the stages of the disease are divided into the lightest first stage to the heaviest fifth degree, and the symptoms of postural maintenance disorder will appear in more than three stages!

Non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease

Constipation is more common in patients with Parkinson's disease, and sometimes occurs at an earlier stage than motor symptoms. In addition, when you get up, your blood pressure drops, your eyes darken, or you have standing hypotension with trembling feeling, which is also called the common symptom of Parkinson's disease. In addition, there will be dysuria such as frequent urination, cosmetic surgery and sexual dysfunction. Sometimes I scream when I sleep, because my legs are uncomfortable (restless leg syndrome) and I can't sleep. In addition, there are mental symptoms, such as depression or indifference to things, and sometimes sudden intense anxiety. In the late stage of Parkinson's disease, thinking slows down, attention and memory decline, which will cause cognitive dysfunction.

Parkinson's disease is bedridden in the late stage.

Speaking of Parkinson's disease, it is easy to have motor symptoms such as trembling hands and feet, and you will be bedridden after the onset, but now, there are many treatments to choose from. Communicate with the attending doctor, continue the treatment, control the motor symptoms and non-motor symptoms caused by Parkinson's disease, and prevent bedridden.

Examination and diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

In the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, the onset time is very important for doctors' judgment. In addition, in order to assist diagnosis, various tests are usually needed. The main symptoms of Parkinson's disease are slow movement, reduced exercise, and even feeling resistance when hands and feet tremble and joints move. In addition, constipation, decreased sense of smell, indistinguishability between dreams and reality, etc., all vary from person to person. Clinically, these symptoms can be used as a reference.

The above symptoms gradually appear unconsciously, which is also a feature of Parkinson's disease. Therefore, when symptoms suddenly appear, it is first suspected that it is a disease other than Parkinson's disease. In addition, obstacles in exercise usually appear on one side of the body. Although there are symptoms on both sides, there are also many different situations.

Parkinson's disease exam

If Parkinson's disease is suspected through consultation, check to confirm the diagnosis. The common method is to inject a small amount of radioactive drugs to determine the spectral examination of organ aggregation. In S- examination, various information in the body can be visualized by using drugs separately, but in the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, dopamine transporter imaging and myocardial imaging are often used. In addition, in order to observe the shape of the brain and confirm the diagnosis, MRI and CT photography of the brain are also very common. Taking levodopa for treating Parkinson's disease to confirm whether it is effective is also helpful to diagnose Parkinson's disease.