What is “morning stiffness”?
The symptoms are worse in the morning when you wake up and you have difficulty moving around, and they disappear only after taking medication for a while.
What is “mask face”?
Mask face” refers to a lack of facial expression, staring, and few transient glances, as if wearing a false mask.
What is “upright hypotension”?
Upright hypotension is a decrease in blood pressure in the upright position and normal blood pressure in the recumbent position.
1. Symptoms include dizziness, vertigo, syncope, general weakness, etc.
2. There is no specific drug treatment.
Is depression a symptom of Parkinson’s disease?
1, about 1/3 of Parkinson’s patients have depressive symptoms.
2. The causes of depressive symptoms are both psychogenic and somatic.
What are the signs of early Parkinson’s disease?
1. frequent feelings of weakness, effortful movement, and unnatural walking posture.
2. lack of facial expression.
3, feeling numbness or pain in the neck or upper limbs.
Side effects that can occur with prolonged or high dose application of dopamine preparations.
What is heterokinesia? What are the symptoms?
Heterokinesia is a symptom of movement disorders such as choreiform movements, tardive dyskinesia, twitch-like movements and myoclonus in patients taking levodopa.
It is common in the limbs and facial muscles, and can also occur in the neck and back, and can affect life in severe cases. The dose of levodopa is often changed to levodopa-controlled release or reduced for the treatment of ochronosis.
What is the “on-off” phenomenon?
1. It is an unpredictable complication of late levodopa treatment.
2. manifests as sudden onset of muscle tonicity, tremor and motor inability.
3. It lasts for a few minutes to an hour and then resolves.
4. After remission, the patient can move as usual.
What is “end-of-dose phenomenon”?
It refers to the worsening of symptoms at the end of each dose as the duration of drug effect becomes shorter and shorter.
How to solve Parkinson’s disease swallowing difficulties and drooling?
1. Tell the patient to swallow often and to tilt the head back to possibly strengthen the swallowing reflex.
2. swallowing saliva before speaking helps with vocalization
3.When family members feed or give medication, be careful not to choke into the bronchi or lungs causing aspiration pneumonia.