Symptoms of Parkinson's disease

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Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease. It usually occurs in the elderly. Although the late stage can lead to dementia, it is not equal to Alzheimer's disease. Let's share the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

Symptoms of Parkinson's disease

Symptom 1: myotonia is one of the main symptoms of Parkinson's disease, which is mainly caused by the increased tension of active and antagonistic muscles. Due to the increase of muscle tension, it can bring a series of abnormal symptoms, such as blinking, chewing, swallowing, walking and so on.

Symptom 2: postural dysreflexia is the main symptom of life difficulties for Parkinson's patients, which is second only to hypokinesia or dyskinesia.

Symptom 3: resting tremor is often the first symptom of Parkinson's disease. A few patients, especially those over 70 years old, may not have tremor. In the early stage, it often appears at the distal end of the limb, starting from one side, with tremor of the hand of the upper limb as the most common, and some patients begin at the knee of the lower limb. When the components with rotation participate, the ball like tremor of thumb and index finger may appear.

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Parkinson's patients also have other clinical manifestations, such as some patients are excitable, occasionally have paroxysmal impulsive behavior; body sweating, saliva, sebaceous fluid secretion increase; cerebrospinal fluid, urine dopamine and its metabolites decrease and so on.