Late symptoms of Parkinson's disease in the elderly?

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With the aggravation of aging, Parkinson's disease is becoming more and more common in recent years. Parkinson's disease is a kind of non hereditary nervous system disease, which is more common in the elderly. This disease seriously endangers the health of patients, affects the normal life and work of patients, and changes the lifestyle of many patients. Patients with Parkinson's disease, because the early symptoms of the disease is not very obvious, often overlooked, so most of the time are detected in the late. Late symptoms of Parkinson's disease in the elderly? Now let me tell you something.

Late symptoms of Parkinson's disease in the elderly?

First of all, there will be neurological dysfunction. Patients will have intractable constipation, increased sweating, urgency of urination, frequent urination and poor urination are also common symptoms. In addition, more than half of patients will have sexual dysfunction, especially those with less sexual intercourse and no sexual life.

Many patients with Parkinson's disease also have a poor sense of smell, even no sense of smell. Some studies have proved that the ability to distinguish different odors of patients is lower than that of normal people, and the sensitivity of most patients to odors is decreased. These defects appear early and appear to be unrelated to the duration of the disease.

Parkinson's disease patients may also have mental symptoms, often manifested as depression and dementia symptoms, some patients are indifferent, often depressed, slow to do things, some patients will show emotional anxiety, often suspicious of things in life, easily angry and other symptoms.

matters needing attention

It is worth noting that if the elderly take drugs for a long time, it will bring serious side effects, physical therapy can only play a supporting role, the cost of surgical treatment is high and there is a high risk. Therefore, in the choice of treatment, we must be careful.