Presumably everyone has heard of a disease called “Parkinson’s” in daily life, which is a neurodegenerative disease common in middle-aged and elderly people.
A large number of studies have shown that the disease mostly occurs after the age of 60, and its main symptoms are that the patient’s physical activity becomes slower and slower, and the hands, feet or other body parts are more and more slow. There is obvious tremor.
Because of this, in daily life, as long as the elderly When the symptoms of shaking hands appear, it will naturally associate with “Parkinson’s”.
As everyone knows, hand tremor is only a symptom of disease, it is not a specific manifestation of Parkinson’s, there are many diseases that may cause hand tremor symptoms, such as the following categories. :
1. Cerebral arteriosclerosis
The disease is a part of systemic arteriosclerosis, and it is also an acute cerebral blood circulation, especially ischemic stroke important basis for disease.
Relevant studies show that the occurrence of cerebral arteriosclerosis is associated with three high diseases, obesity, long-term smoking and drinking, gender, age, etc. Each factor is relevant.
Affected by arteriosclerosis, insufficient cerebral blood supply, etc., the patient’s motor center may have obstacles, such as numbness in fingers and toes, and numbness in the fingers and toes. Or there is a feeling of skin crawling like mosquitoes, or muscle tension and soreness in the back of the neck. Some patients also have symptoms such as inflexible fingers, limb weakness, tremors;
2. Ischemic stroke
This is a type of stroke, which refers to brain tissue damage caused by excessive stenosis or blockage of blood vessels, resulting in the inability of blood to flow into the brain normally, which is commonly known as “cerebral infarction”.
In all types of stroke, its incidence rate is quite high, accounting for about 60-70% of the total number of patients.
When a patient has a sudden stroke and affects the motor center, there will be numbness of one side of the limb, trembling and weakness of the hand, and the arm cannot be normal. Symptoms such as horizontal lifting and inability to lift the water cup normally, in extremely severe cases, the patient may even suddenly become hemiplegia;
3. Essential tremor
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There are data showing that essential tremor appears to be a mild monosymptomatic disease, but it is a progressive disease with significant clinical variability. When the patient is highly concentrated, extremely nervous, fatigued, and hungry, the symptoms will be significantly aggravated.
In most patients, the tremor symptoms will disappear temporarily after drinking alcohol, but will worsen the next day, which is also a typical clinical symptom of essential tremor;
4. Hepatic encephalopathy< /strong>
If the patient has severe liver disease, such as liver cirrhosis, liver cancer, etc., and suddenly has symptoms of hand tremor, it may also be the complication of “hepatic encephalopathy”. Performance.
Because severe liver disease can cause dysfunction of the central extension systems based on metabolic disorders, the most characteristic symptoms are neurological signs, and patients may experience fluttering. Wing tremor, which can be unilateral or bilateral.
All in all, although tremor is a symptom of Parkinson’s, other diseases can also cause tremor. Especially after entering the stage of old age, due to the gradual decline of body functions and the aging of organs, it is easy to be found by diseases.
Therefore, we cannot rely solely on Arbitrary conclusions can be drawn from one symptom, and the most important thing is to actively conduct relevant examinations and find out the cause.