Injured by: Harry S. Truman - Mao Tse-Tung - Hitler - Muhammad Ali - Pope John Paul II - and U.S. President Ronald Reagan
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Is symbolized by the slow movement and speech, writing and understanding
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More than a million people are living with the disease in the United States
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Parkinson's patients do not Tremc eyes only rarely
Thanks to the scientific knowledge of this disease to a British doctor (James Parkinson), who described the disease for the first time in 1817 .. The disease is progressing with the passage of time and lead to atrophy and damage in cells and nerve fibers .. The estimated incidence rate of high-1: 500 of the population in the age of fifty, and increases with age. About the background of this disease met «Clinic» with Dr. Asmahan Farhan Shubaily advisory and Head of the Department of Neurology at the Ibn Sina Hospital .. The following is the text of the interview:
How to develop Parkinson's disease?
Dopamine is a chemical transmitter in the brain. And dopamine-producing cells found in special places Substantia Nigra of the brain affected and the less damage in persons infected with the disease. When consumption of dopamine, which is responsible for the transfer of nerve signals that contribute to the synergy of the human brain loses its ability to control the movements and managed as it should, and this is a Parkinson's disease caused by a lack of dopamine.
When symptoms of this disease?
Appear after becoming a shortage of 75-80%, or when there is an imbalance between dopamine and other chemicals present in the basal nuclei, such as: acetylcholine Acetylcholine, and Algelotamet Glutamate, and material B, and substance of GABA and other materials.
Are men more than women?
Parkinson's disease found in men than women by 2:3, with an average age of the patient when you see the injury is 50 years old, and it can happen when young people too .. Before the age of forty by 5-10%. There is in America more than a million people are living with the disease, and the proportion of this disease increases with the increasing average age.
Are there any famous names hit it?
Yes, wounded by many well-known such as: Harry Truman, and Mao Tse-Tung, Hitler, and Muhammad Ali, and Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan .. And others.
What symptoms?
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The slow movement with the disruption of
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Stiffness in the limbs;
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Fibrillation in the upper and lower
This affects the balance of the patient and his memoirs,
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There is difficulty in starting and stopping the movement and rotation
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It may also affect speech and swallowing, memory and balance.
What are the main what distinguishes it?
Fibrillation regular, which begins in the hands and fingers, and then extends to the feet and head, and it seems the patient like a roll worry beads between the thumb and index finger, showing fibrillation at rest and disappears during sleep, and with the voluntary movement of the injured party, and further fibrillation with stress and anxiety, this fibrillation leads to difficulty in writing, signature and painting, with a change in writing to become a writing smaller and trembling, with the difficulty in eating, especially drinking liquids such as water and soup. Fibrillation also affects the hair, lace, or open a link or button, or wearing socks, or when money is counted, or knock on the door, or to use a toothbrush, and others.
What effects?
The effects of this disease, the slow movement and a smooth walk, and this affects the patient during recovery from a bed or chair, or to start a movement, but Sir Vbesaobp and in small steps and lack of flexibility in the BIOS, and the body was jerky and the balance disturbed, as well as showing a slowdown in the movement of the forearms, and stop and the difficulty of the roundabout, and shows a change in the integrity of the body and the tendency to bend forward, it's odd that Parkinson's patients may be able to run and the rise or going down the stairs easily, while moving very slowly.
How is Parkinson's patient?
Characterized by a patient of Parkinson generally rigid features, sedentary, non-existent emotion, not Tremc eyes only rarely, like put a mask on deaf on his face, and dripped saliva from his mouth during the night, or quivering lips and tongue, if spoke his words slowly whispering boring on a single frequency, and gaining his body and placed rigid features angle back, bending the elbows and knees, in part, and often walks the patient steps short runners, it is slow moving, slow to speak, slow to write, slow to respond, slow to understand, as if he had been placed in a shirt from gypsum, or a mask of iron.
Here, it must be stressed that not all fibrillation or slow motion or stiffness, is the Parkinson's disease, since there are many diseases that have similar symptoms. Must therefore be carefully diagnosed, or when converted to surgery.
Is there a modern medicine has affected positively on the improvement of the patient?
There are many medicines and modern had a positive impact in improving the patient's condition, but in some cases, decrease the efficiency of the drug, in other cases the patient can not withstand the treatment or show side effects of these drugs can not be treated.
In such cases, the increase does not exceed 10-15%, prevents the patient to a specialized committee to confirm the diagnosis and the report of the need for patients to surgery and the quality and location of the surgery. There are two types of surgery, either with cauterization or the alarm battery-electric plant under the skin, and this leads to good results.
There are many studies on treatments developed, as well as the study of genetic engineering (gene) and plant cells, particularly of the fetus.
Are there any reasons known to Parkinson's disease?
Causes of this disease is not known precisely, and there are several possibilities:
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Virus.
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Weakened immune systems.
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Atrophy and damage in the cells leading to the disease.
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Toxic substances.
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Genetic predisposition.
Are there now ameliorated the disease?
Despite remarkable advances in surgical and pharmacological treatment of Parkinson's disease but there is still no satisfactory treatment to him, there are still many challenges to be resolved. What is encouraging that many sophisticated research now under way in the world may help in the future, the emergence of a new understanding could lead to the cure of the disease.
And treatment for the time being life-long ideals such as the treatment of diabetes, it helps to alleviate symptoms, restore functional capacity, and improve the quality of life only, enabling the patient to return to the practice of his natural life in work and society, and feel the blessing of health and happiness, and not continued dependence on others.
What are the factors that affect the patient?
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Tension.
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The way they are handled with the patient.
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The presence of other diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, stress.
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Frequency of the patient to several doctors.
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Jugglers.
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Caring for the patient and in some cases these may be the cause of the deterioration of the patient's health.
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Surgery, which are not needed.
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The absence of associations and centers and institutions for the care of patients and educate them with their families and officials have them.
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Lack of specialist doctors in patients with Parkinson's and involuntary movements.
Do you feel concerned about Parkinson's patient?
Yes get Parkinson's patients concerned usually, because in addition to the causes of the physiological, the patient must be affected by symptoms of illness, if at all can appear concerned as one of the side effects of some medications, so you must request the assistance of a psychiatrist by the family of the patient or based on the service.
Notes, many Parkinson's patients that psychological stress and anxiety are increasing symptoms of confusion and the problems of the musculoskeletal system of the digestive system and the levels of the hydrogen ion, as well as blood sugar levels in addition to other physiological functions.
What should I do in this situation?
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Consult a psychiatrist.
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Self-training.
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Technical feedback.
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Meditation.
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Consult a specialist occupational therapy or concern to provide advice on the problems of movement when the patient.
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Consult a speech coach to provide guidance to speak about the techniques and exercises the muscles of the face and closely related to the process of chewing.
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Exercising, walking, singing and talking to music.
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