What should patients with daily essential tremor pay attention to?

1) Dietary care: Patients with essential tremor should maintain a variety of foods. Varied foods meet the body's needs for a variety of nutrients and make eating enjoyable in itself. Dine happily in a relaxed environment and atmosphere.

2) Family care: Family members play a certain role in essential tremor patients, and patients should be encouraged to take more self-care, such as buttoning, tying shoes, lifting chopsticks to eat, active exercise, balance training, and increasing independence as much as possible.

3) Strengthen limb function exercise Encourage or assist essential tremor patients to do active exercises, from completely passive to do part of themselves, do a good job of safety precautions, remove obstacles in the environment, the ground is flat, assist essential tremor patients to move, prevent falls, and keep their mouth clean.

4) Prevention of complications: The onset of essential tremor patients is relatively slow, and if essential tremor is left untreated for a long time, it is easy to cause other diseases. Therefore, we need to prevent complications of essential tremor and delay the time of disability as much as possible, as soon as possible**.

In life, some people may have shaking hands or unsteady holding of things, which is called "tremor" in medicine, and if the situation is not very serious, it often does not attract people's attention. Common** includes: Essential tremor is the most common disorder that causes hand tremors, mainly postural dust and motor tremor on the hands, head and other parts of the body.

It is aggravated by concentration, nervousness, fatigue, and hunger, and most cases disappear temporarily after drinking alcohol and worsen the next day, but it should be noted that the disease cannot be treated by drinking. Parkinson's disease is another condition that often causes tremors. The disease is characterized by easy shaking when at rest, inflexible movements, stiffness of the limbs, and postural gait disturbances, while patients may be accompanied by symptoms such as depression, constipation, and sleep disturbances.

Hand tremors are not necessarily Parkinson's disease, and the most important condition to distinguish from Parkinson's disease is essential tremor, which is the only manifestation of essential tremor that progresses slowly or does not progress for a long time. Essential tremor, also known as familial or benign essential tremor, is a common clinical movement disorder and is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner.

If you have started to tremble, you must first learn to judge the cause by yourself, and carry out relevant mitigation measures, if you can't judge the disease, you must consult a doctor as soon as possible, and don't ignore it.

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 caloric 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 in the shed, it is necessary to create a pleasant atmosphere, not too excited, too tired, to prevent aggravation of tremors.

Some patients end up having difficulty swallowing, or even unable to control their saliva, if they can't swallow food at all, they can only leave a gastric tube and eat with nasogastric feeding, and some patients eat relatively slowly, they can cut the 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.

Exercise: Patients 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.

1. Physical exercise: The nursing principle of patients with essential tremor should pay attention to doing some physical exercise as much as possible, such as tai chi and radio exercises. Rubbing your hands together and turning your neck can help to increase blood circulation.

2. Diet: 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.

Usually live a regular life and avoid fatigue. 3. Psychology**: Patients should pay attention to the balance of mentality, read more books and use their brains diligently, and often go out and about.

Some patients have a heavy burden of thinking and are afraid that others will laugh at them. At this time, family members, relatives and friends should give him comfort and encouragement. Don't let the patient get angry and nervous, especially if there is some bad news at home, don't tell him immediately, so as not to cause aggravation of the condition and create a warm and peaceful environment.

4. Strengthen limb function exercise: In the early stage of the disease, we should adhere to certain physical activities, take the initiative to carry out limb function exercises, and do the maximum range of flexion, extension, rotation and other activities in each joint of the limbs to prevent the occurrence of limb contractures and joint stiffness. Terminally ill patients undergo passive limb movement and muscle and joint massage to promote blood circulation in the limbs.