Why do people with Parkinson’s disease have “swollen feet”?

  Once suffering from Parkinson’s disease, patients need long-term medication because Parkinson’s disease is a chronic disease and the disease progresses gradually over time. At first, patients may have slow limb movements, slow hand movements, slow walking, or hand tremors and stiffness, etc., which may progress to systemic symptoms after a few years.  The progression of Parkinson’s disease includes the aggravation of motor symptoms and the appearance of non-motor symptoms, such as depression, anxiety and other psychiatric symptoms, constipation, frequent urination, urinary urgency, etc. There are also motor complications, such as hand-movement anomalies, switch phenomenon, end-of-agent phenomenon, etc. Some patients even have the phenomenon of “swollen feet”.  If there is “foot swelling”, it is very headache, the usual shoes can not be put in, so why there is foot swelling? According to Professor Wang Xuelian, Parkinson’s disease foot swelling is generally related to the patient’s own blood circulation problems and drug side effects.  Many patients with Parkinson’s disease do not like to move actively due to physical symptoms or psychological problems, and long-term sitting and lying, no exercise, no massage, will induce the problem of swollen feet related to the impaired circulation of the limbs. Another reason may be related to the side effects of medications, such as amantadine, levodopa, and other drugs that may trigger local swelling.  How can Parkinson’s disease patients with “swollen feet” be resolved?  1, do exercise, encourage patients to do exercise, appropriate exercise, such as daily walks after meals, etc. If the patient is bedridden, family members can put a pillow under the patient’s legs, so that the position of the legs above the heart, so as to achieve the purpose of relieving the swelling of the feet.  2, do massage, bedridden patients, family members should be appropriate to the patient’s body massage, to promote blood circulation, how massage, you can consult the next Chinese medicine.  3, if it is related to the side effects of drugs, under the guidance of the doctor, appropriate to reduce the amount of drugs or adjust the replacement of drugs.