What should I do if my legs and feet are swollen in Parkinson’s disease?

  Once suffering from Parkinson’s disease, patients with Parkinson’s disease 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 develop into generalized 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”.  Although most of them are related to treatment drugs, it is not necessary to stop them.  In addition, symptoms such as prolonged restriction of patient’s activities as well as sluggish movement are also induced foot swelling, which is related to impaired circulation in the limbs. The following methods can be taken to relieve the symptoms of foot swelling, such as lying down with the body flat and elevating the legs so that their position is higher than the heart, insisting on 10 minutes-20 minutes each time and repeating 2 times-3 times a day to make the blood veins flow back smoothly for the purpose of relieving foot swelling. When sitting, you can try to elevate the legs with the aid of a footstool, pillow, etc. Try to carry out more activities of the legs, and it is better to insist on walking every day and avoid sitting or standing for a long time. Do not wear tight pants or long socks.  Parkinson’s disease makes the patient’s mobility difficult, probably because of the uncomfortable, many patients simply do not want to exercise, there are patients think that exercise to improve Parkinson’s disease does not work, not much effect, these are understandable, exercise is important to persist, the reason we all understand, exercise a day or two to see very obvious changes, which is unlikely, such as abs, vest line is not a day or two to practice.  Adhere to the appropriate exercise on the patient’s body is a certain amount of help, it is recommended that patients in a good state of medication, every day adhere to the appropriate exercise, yoga, tai chi can practice, good physical and mental health, as long as you adhere to, over time will see the effect.