Hereditary (essential) tremor is considered a neurological disease, which is the most common disruption of the brain. Consider the existing methods of therapy of this disease.
Symptoms of an Essential Tremor
The main and almost unique sign of neuralgia of this type is involuntary trembling. Essential tremor affects the hands, legs, head or trunk. Movement increases with physical and psychological stress. At the same time, tremor develops gradually, eventually becoming very intense without timely treatment. Vocal cords are often involved, which distorts the speech of the patient. As a result, a person begins to avoid public places, closes to himself, which leads to the emergence of such an indirect symptom as depression .
How to treat an essential tremor?
Fortunately, the disease is well amenable to drug therapy, especially if it started at an early stage of tremor.
Essential hand tremor - benign tremor - is treated with the following drugs:
- sedatives;
- anticonvulsant medications;
- antisclerotic drugs;
- vasodilator drugs.
If a patient has pronounced symptoms of a depressive disorder, then for a short time to stabilize the mental state, antidepressants are prescribed.
It is reasonable to combine medical treatment of essential tremor with folk remedies. These include alcoholic tinctures of valerian medicinal , motherwort, the root of the skullcap of Baikal, the root of the peony. In addition, it is useful to drink tea from spasmolytic medicinal herbs, for example, mint, lemon balm, hawthorn, astragalus.
Treating the essential tremor of the head is a more difficult task. First, drug therapy is carried out, combining such drugs:
- missalin (primidon), showing anticonvulsant action;
- propranolol , which is a beta-blocker that relaxes smooth muscles;
- Topiramate (topamax), which has antiepileptic effect;
- benzodiazepines (lorazepam, clonazepam, diazepam), normalizing the work of the heart muscle;
- Neuronthin , which improves metabolic processes in the brain's nerve cells.
In the case when prolonged conservative treatment did not help the patient and the quality of his life worsened significantly due to tremors, surgical intervention is recommended. The only effective method at the moment is the stereotaxic thalamotomy.