“Doctor, is my husband sick?” In order to cover the dark circles, Aunt Xu specially put on Wearing sunglasses, he came to the Parkinson’s Disease Center of the Second Hospital of Zhejiang University with a sad face for consultation.
It turned out that Aunt Xu’s wife often had nightmares, and at night She often punches and kicks while sleeping, and sometimes yells suddenly, and she fears every night for fear of being punched by her husband again.
At the suggestion of the doctor, Aunt Xu brought her wife to the Parkinson’s Disease Center of the Second Hospital of Zhejiang University for a detailed examination , including nighttime sleep monitoring, cranial magnetic resonance, and more.
The doctor learned that the uncle started to suffer from shoulder pain and unsteady legs and feet two years ago. The family always thought he was getting old and went to the doctor, treating him as rheumatism and lumbar disc herniation. After a detailed evaluation by a specialist in Parkinson’s disease, combined with medical history and examination, the final diagnosis was that Aunt Xu’s wife had the disease.Primary Parkinson’s disease with symptoms of “REM sleep disorder”.
Such patients are prone to self-injury and bedmates, and often At the same time angry language, will shout. The person next to you needs to be very loud to wake the patient.
After the patient wakes up, some patients can recall the nightmare situation in detail, they will describe being attacked in their sleep situation and his own escape. Most patients do not wake up because of their violent behavior, and sleep is not disturbed when violent behavior occurs. Some patients have an attack once a week, and severe REM sleep disorder attacks several times a night. Patients with REM sleep disorder can exhibit characteristic violent behavior in vivid dreams, with patients rolling, jumping, or punching and kicking.
After systematic treatment, Aunt Xu’s wife has no pain in her waist and legs, and her movements are much more agile than before, even at night. No more yelling, punching and kicking, Aunt Xu was able to sleep peacefully all night, with a smile on her face again.
Parkinson’s disease is a common movement disorder in the elderly,is the second largest degenerative disease of the central nervous system after Alzheimer’s disease, and more than half of the world’s Parkinson’s population is in China.
The main symptoms of Parkinson’s disease are: bradykinesia, resting tremor, muscle stiffness, Postural balance disorders, etc., gradually progress, and eventually lead to life can not take care of themselves.
Due to the slow onset of Parkinson’s disease, early motor symptoms are not very obvious. People who are accompanied by non-motor symptoms such as constipation, sleep disturbance, hyposmia, orthostatic hypotension, REM sleep behavior disorder, and mood disturbance also need to be vigilant.
Source: Orange Persimmon Interactive · Urban Express reporter Yu Qianqian