What should patients with essential tremor pay attention to on a daily basis?

1. Safety equipment: the patient's life needs to pay more attention, such as whether the height of the bed and the height of the toilet will affect its start;

2. Diet: Increase the calorie intake in the diet, including the content of protein, easy-to-chew food, it is recommended to eat a small number of meals, increase the intake of fiber, including liquid intake, to prevent constipation. Secondly, when eating, create a pleasant atmosphere, do not be too excited, too tired, to prevent aggravation of tremors.

Some patients eventually have difficulty swallowing, or even unable to control saliva, if they cannot swallow food at all, they can only leave a gastric tube in place, nasogastric feeding diet, and some patients eat relatively slowly, they can cut food into small pieces or grind it, and use a thick spoon to eat. Some patients have trembling and tremor more obviously, and may burn or break dishes and bowls, it is recommended to use a metal soup spoon and pay attention to the cold and hot food.

Patients with essential tremor should do some exercises appropriately during the ** period (pay attention to safety), such as tai chi, gymnastics, sprinting and other light exercises.

Key points of care for essential tremor:

1. Dietary care

People with essential tremor should maintain a variety of foods. This is because the diet should be varied in a day, including cereals, vegetables, fruits, milk, legumes, meat, etc. Varied foods meet the body's needs for a variety of nutrients and make eating enjoyable in itself.

Enjoy a pleasant meal in a relaxed environment and atmosphere.

2. Home care:

Family members play a certain role in essential tremor in their daily life, and the daily care of essential tremor should encourage patients to take more self-care, such as buttoning buttons, tying shoes, lifting chopsticks to eat, active exercise, balance training, and increasing independence as much as possible.

3. Strengthen limb function exercise

The daily care of essential tremor should encourage or assist essential tremor patients to do active exercises, from completely passive to doing part of themselves, do a good job of safety precautions, remove obstacles in the environment, and the ground is flat, assist essential tremor patients to move, prevent falls, and keep their oral cavity clean.

4. Prevention of complications

Patients with essential tremor have a relatively slow onset, and if essential tremor is left untreated for a long time, it can easily cause other diseases. Therefore, we need to prevent complications of essential tremor and delay the duration of disability as much as possible. This is the most important daily care for essential tremor.

The ** of essential tremor are:

1. Aging:

This is the main reason why essential tremor is preferred in older people. The average person is susceptible to various diseases due to the decline in physical fitness in old age, and essential tremor syndrome is one of them.

2. Environmental factors:

The occurrence of a disease is more or less related to environmental factors, and the same is true for essential tremor disease, and the reason for regional differences in the prevalence of essential tremor is that there may be some toxic substances in the environment that damage the neurons of the brain.

3. Familial heredity:

In the follow-up survey of some essential tremor patients, it was found that essential tremor, an elderly disease, seems to have a certain tendency to cluster in families, and the incidence of essential tremor patients in their relatives is higher than that of the normal population.

Precautions: 1. Psychology: First of all, we must face up to this reality, and we can't be afraid of people knowing, so that we can calm down.

In addition, it is necessary to live a regular life and avoid excitement and fatigue, which is good for the course of the disease. 2. Medication: The dosage can be taken according to the patient's condition, when the tremor is light, the dosage can be low, or taken intermittently, and if it is serious, it should be taken continuously.

At the same time, you should also take some vitamin drugs, such as vitamin E and vitamin C, which have a protective and anti-aging effect on the nerves. 3. Dietary conditioning: eat more anti-arteriosclerosis foods, such as vegetables, fruits, celery, onions, etc., which have the effect of lowering blood pressure and anti-blood lipids.

High-fat, high-calorie, and high-sugar foods should be limited, especially fried foods should be eaten less.

Essential tremor is a single symptomatic disorder, and postural fibrillation is the only clinical manifestation of the disease. Postural flutter is a tremor caused when a limb is held in a certain position, and the tremor disappears naturally when the limb is completely relaxed. Patients with essential tremor should pay attention to eating less high-temperature fried food, increase the intake of high-sugar and high-fat foods, and eat more vegetables, fruits, and cereals, so as to fully digest various elements that the body needs.

Exercise: People with essential tremor should try to do some physical exercises, such as tai chi and radio exercises. Rubbing your hands together and turning your neck can help to increase blood circulation.

It is worse with concentration, nervousness, fatigue, and hunger, and in most cases disappears temporarily after drinking alcohol and worsens the next day, which is also a clinical feature of essential tremor.