What is the treatment for essential tremor? What treatments are available for essential tremor?

Essential tremor usually requires the use of drugs**, can also be carried out by surgery**, if the condition of essential tremor is relatively mild, usually does not need to be carried out**, if it affects the normal life and work, it is necessary to cooperate with the doctor to use drugs**, when the effect is not obvious, it can be carried out by surgery**.

Essential tremor is performed according to the degree of tremor** and has the following three conditions:

1. The degree of tremor of the patient is mild and does not affect work and life, and the tremor can be relieved by adjusting emotions and exercises;

2. If the tremor has affected work and life, the patient will generally be given drugs**. The most commonly used first-line drugs are receptor blockers, such as propranolol and Almar; Antiepileptic drugs, such as primidone. Commonly used second-line drugs include carbamazepine, betaloc, gabapentin, or pregabalin, among others;

3. If the effect of the drug is not good and the tremor is aggravated, surgery can be considered.

The specific medication should be combined with clinical practice, and the doctor's face-to-face guidance shall prevail.

Essential tremor is usually done with some medications. Patients with sudden tremor usually suffer from the sudden onset of symptoms due to the decline of spleen and stomach function after middle age, and the imbalance of the body's circulation. Patients with essential tremor can be relieved and controlled by taking some medications, and then they should also improve their lives, and improve their quality of life to help**.

Essential tremor is generally treated with primidone, but it is very likely to have adverse reactions such as nausea and vomiting when using it, so it should be taken in strict accordance with the guidance given by the doctor, and it can also be treated with surgery**, or it can be treated with Xiaoyao pills or gastrodia, and it can also be treated by acupuncture and moxibustion on the body's acupuncture points.

Essential tremor is the most common movement disorder, mainly for the hands, head and other parts of the body posture and motor tremor, that is, tremor in concentration, nervousness, fatigue, hunger aggravated, in the relaxed or quiet time tremor reduced or disappeared, this disease through heredity is more common, about 60% of patients have a family history, and most essential tremor patients only have a slight tremor, only patients need **, less than 50% of patients with drugs can control symptoms well, The rest of the patients are not sensitive to the drug and do not work well.

Symptomatic medication recommendations:

Ethanol, this class of drugs cannot be used as long-term **, mainly with occasional ethanol to control symptoms.

Adreno-receptor blockers, the mainstay of propranolol, can mainly reduce the amplitude of postural tremor in the hand, but not in frequency. However, patients with cardiac insufficiency, degree or degree atrioventricular block, asthma or other bronchospasm diseases, diabetes, etc., cannot be treated with propranolol**.

Promidone, which is a commonly used antiepileptic drug, may be preferred by patients taking propranolol.

Prognosis for essential tremor.

The prognosis of essential tremor is not related to age, and the severity of tremor is not related to mortality. The disease is stable for a long time or for life, but some patients with severe tremor can cause difficulty in moving, reducing social interactions, and eventually losing labor and having difficulty taking care of themselves. This condition usually occurs more than 10 years after the onset of the disease, and the incidence increases with age.

Therefore, this disease is not terrible, the main thing is to adjust your mentality and face life positively.