Day: The Other Side of Parkinson’s
“We can help. You can help us.” Under this slogan is celebrated on Monday the World Parkinson’s Day, And disabling neurodegenerative disorder that affects 2% of people over 65 years. Today is, after Alzheimer’s, chronic neurological disease the second highest incidence in the Spanish State.
Most people associate with Parkinson’s tremors, a symptom, however, never be revealed in 20% of those with the disease. Importantly, the disease also makes other important non-motor sequelae, which are not always diagnosed or treated. “Parkinson’s has always been considered a motor disorder, and we now know to be false and that causes many symptoms, symptoms in many patients go undetected and cause surprise in the people around them.” The Dr. Alfredo Antiquity, Chief of Neurology Hospital de Basurto, Pointing to “fatigue, sleep disorders or vision problems” as the purpose to consider a possible diagnosis. Resource:BV Cures Review
And is that it signals that can appear up to ten years before the first motor disorders: “By the time a patient has other symptoms has lost almost half of the neurons that degenerate in this disease”Says Dr. antiquity. “Today is a theory that this disease progresses from the lower parts of the brain up, and so one of the first symptoms that could appear is the disorder of olfaction”.
So, the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease remains clinically. “There are nuclear medicine tests that can help us, because there are certain areas of the brain that do not deal well with a substance that is missing from this disease, which is dopamine” but early diagnosis “can not be established but it came to a neurologist when they appear Early indications. ”
In this disease, in addition, there is a psychological component: “A third, more or less of patients have depression”. The support, therefore, has to be global, “nobody has to feel stigmatized, or suffer beyond what may represent the disease.”
Parkinson scientific priority
Dr. Alfredo Joined Parkinson believes that continues on the agenda of priorities for scientists, “What happens is that are still lacking the essential key, which is why this disease occurs’. Without that first step “research in the field of all neurodegenerative diseases is evolving very quickly,” said Antiquity, but “it is to understand that for a patient with Parkinson intervals of five or ten years it may seem enormous.”
It is estimated that close to the Spanish State 150,000 people living with the disease, Although the prospects expect the number of people affected will double by 2025 and reach tripled in 2050.
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