How does essential tremor shake and how harmful is it to the human body?

Essential tremor can also be called familial or benign essential tremor, and this disease is often caused by genetics, and the chromosomes of patients suffering from this disease obviously show genetics, because this disease is a hereditary disease, so the speed of onset is very slow, and this disease is mainly with the age of the patient, it can occur at any age, and the patients of this disease are higher than female patients.

For **Essential tremor disease, it is not recommended to take Western medicine**. Such as: propranolol, carbamazepine, Almar and other Western medicine drugs, will only relieve, can not, if you take Western medicine, you may have to take a lifetime of pills, the harm to the body is great, the Western medicine used is inhibitive, long-term use of the nerve organs damage is relatively large, there is a good way to target the conditioning, in this regard, it is recommended to take traditional Chinese medicine, one person, according to the condition of each patient, you can.

There are four main symptoms of essential tremor:

1. Muscle stiffness: Essential tremor disease can make the patient's limbs and trunk very stiff and inflexible. The initial stage of the lesion is usually caused by one limb of the patient.

In the early stage, you will feel that the movement of one side of the limb is inflexible, inconvenient, and there will be a feeling of stiffness. It gradually worsens with time, and the movement is slow and weak, and it is impossible to do certain actions that can be done in daily life.

2. Resting tremor: The early manifestations of the onset are mostly tremors, which generally start from the distal end of a limb on one side, mainly the thumb, index finger, and middle finger. The fingers move as if they were rubbing balls or counting bills, and gradually extend to the lower limb on the same side and the opposite limb, and possibly to the lower jaw, lips, tongue, and head in later stages.

3. Slow movement: During the early onset of the disease, the upper arm muscles and finger muscles will produce stiffness, and the patient's upper limbs are often unable to make complex movements, such as the use of shoelaces, buttons and other actions. Even if it can be made, it will become much slower than before, and it will not be able to be completed smoothly.

It will also become very difficult for the patient to write, and the handwriting will be sloppy and crooked, and the writing will become smaller and smaller.

4. Special posture: the patient's whole body muscles will be affected, the muscle tension will show an increasing trend, the tension of the flexor muscles will be much higher than the extensor tension at rest, and the patient will have a lot of abnormal postures and movements. For example, the head is tilted forward, the trunk is slightly bent, the upper arm is adducted, the knuckles are flexed, and the hips and knees are slightly flexed.

Essential tremor is an autosomal dominant disorder that runs in families. The main manifestation is postural tremor, which is an involuntary but rhythmic tremor of the limb muscles, usually starting in the upper limbs, and may also affect the head, legs, trunk, voice, and facial muscles. The four symptoms of essential tremor include muscle stiffness, resting tremor, bradykinesia, and special posture.

It is often found in life that the elderly with Parkinson's disease will have tremor symptoms. But not all tremors are Parkinson's disease. Many different types of disorders can also cause essential tremor.

Essential tremor.

It refers to the tremor of the hand, head and voice that can not be controlled, which may be primary or familial, although it will not endanger the life safety of the patient, but it will affect the daily life of the patient when the disease occurs, and the drug can be selected if the condition is not serious, and surgery can be selected in serious cases. So, what are the dangers of essential tremor?

1. Essential tremor will affect the patient's fine movements. During an episode of essential tremor, the patient's hands will shake involuntarily, and he will not be able to hold anything at all, or even be unable to pour water to drink and eat, which will seriously affect the patient's daily life.

2. Essential tremor can lead to diseases of movement disorders. For example, Parkinson's disease.

Patients with essential tremor have a much higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease than normal, which may be up to 24 times higher.

3. Essential tremor may cause speech disorders. People with essential tremor may cause symptoms when they encounter people or things that make them nervous, and the tongue will tremble, which will cause the voice to tremble, and severe patients may not be able to communicate with people normally, which will seriously affect the patient's daily communication.

4. Essential tremor may know that the patient is unable to walk normally. Patients with severe essential tremor will have severe tremors in the limbs, and the patient will not be able to stand at all, which will seriously affect the patient's daily walking.

5. Essential tremor may cause mental illness. Because essential tremor is difficult and the recovery time is very long, many patients will have low self-esteem because they are unable to take care of themselves for a long time, and some may even complain, which brings great harm to the patient's mental health.

The above describes the five major harms of essential tremor disease to people, hoping to deepen the understanding of this disease, arouse everyone's attention to this disease, once the relevant condition appears, you can go to a regular hospital for examination in time, and avoid aggravation of the disease, which will bring great harm to the patient.

Essential tremor is characterized by postural tremor, which is an involuntary but rhythmic tremor of the limb muscles. Tremors usually begin in the upper extremities and may also affect the head, legs, trunk, voice, and facial muscles.

Typical symptoms. Tremors usually begin with symmetry on both sides, starting with the hands and affecting the head and neck, voice, legs, or trunk.

Some patients begin with tremors in the head and neck, tongue, or voice, but rarely in the legs.

If the tremor is from the hands, start with the first.

Second, third, and fourth fingers start, so it is more difficult to detect early.

Tremor also affects the flexor and extensor muscles of the limb and is dominated by rhythmic up-and-down vibrating movements.

The frequency, amplitude, and limb distribution of tremors usually do not change significantly over several years, or they do change, and the progression is very slow.

Tremor is worse when people perform delicate movements, such as holding a drinking glass, tying a shoelace, or holding a needle and thread.

As the course of the disease increases, the frequency of tremor decreases and the amplitude increases, leading to more severe functional impairment, and patients often have difficulty controlling tremor, thus affecting work and daily life.

Essential tremor reacts differently to alcohol, some patients can reduce tremor by ingesting a small amount of alcohol, but after 42% and 75% of patients drink alcohol, the tremor decreases for only 2 4 hours, and the tremor worsens the next day.

Hazards can cause physical and social embarrassment, prevent the hand from performing fine motor tasks, such as sketching, and may affect speech if the head muscles are affected. If it is not timely, it will be very harmful to the body, mainly in the following aspects: first of all, the adverse reaction of the drug, for essential tremor, long-term medication is required to control the disease.

Although the appropriate dosage is grasped according to the doctor's instructions, after the drug enters the body, it will affect the normal metabolism and cause harm to the body. In particular, long-term medication is likely to lead to the direct loss of labor force and the patient becoming a wasted person. In fact, dysfunction, the disease has always existed, which can cause the patient to have functional dysfunction.

In severe cases, it may even be difficult to take care of oneself.

Generally speaking, Parkinson's and cerebral arteriosclerosis will contain both motor, intentional, and resting tremor. Tremor may be worse with movement toward the purpose. The frequency of tremor is 4 8 Hz, which gradually decreases and increases in amplitude with increasing course and age.

Severe postural tremor of the hand.

Presents with rhythmic abduction of the hand, with adduction tremor and flexion-extension tremor, and pronation and supination tremor are rare. The written word may be distorted, but it will not appear as too small.

Affects fine motor skills.

Tremor affects fine motor skills after 10 to 20 years of onset, reaching a peak in the 6th decade of onset. 86% of patients by the age of 60 to 70 years can affect social activities and life skills, including writing, drinking, eating, dressing, speech, and manipulation.

Complication. Speech disorders.

Some older patients with essential tremor have speech impairment.

Dystonia.

Dystonia occurred in 6% to 47% of patients with essential tremor. Postural tremor is also common in dystonia, particularly writing spasms. In dystonia, 7% and 23% have essential tremor.

Spastic torticollis is often accompanied by head and trunk tremors.

Movement disorders. In the essential tremor family, a small number of members can also find other movement disorders, such as Tourette-Tourette syndrome and restless legs syndrome.

Migraine. The presence of typical migraine in patients with essential tremor is common, but malignant hyperthermia has also been reported.

Cognitive dysfunction.

Cognitive impairment is present in patients with essential tremor, which manifests primarily as impairment of word fluency, naming, emotion, verbal memory, and working memory.

Affective disorders are also common in patients with essential tremor. In general, the harm is that it affects daily life, self-care, quality of life and quality of life, and even affects family members. Of course, there are also some that are only mild, which have little impact on daily life and work, but if they are not actively prevented and **, they may still be aggravated.