Other lesion affecting Parkinson’s patients:Insomnia. Difficulty sleeping is common during illness. The the reasons many of. Sometimes the patient is simply anxious because of the illness or can be awakened by uncontrollable movements. Finally, his sleep can be directly affected by a lack of dopamine, the hormone that explains its gradual disappearance in Parkinson’s disease.
So insomnia treatments, including melatonin, cannot be the same for all Parkinson’s patients. But a study published in Lancet nerves Offers a promising method: the use of pump to administer medication, apomorphine;
It is the same system that some diabetics use to inject insulin continuously. But the study, led by neurologist Emmanuel Flemand-Rose and led by his colleague Valerie Cochin de Kock, investigated the fact that Use the pump only at night.
“So the limitation associated with wearing a small pump does not exist during the day.”It is to explain.
The results rather to encourage. Compared to patients who received a placebo, patients who received this device reported significant improvements in their sleep.
However, the study was only conducted on a small sample (about forty participants), which requires a procedure Works on a larger scale To confirm the effectiveness of the device. Moreover, I focused on patients who are already at an advanced stage.
“They are rather people who have been evolving for ten years.”Flamand-Roze, who has already had encouraging preliminary results, identifies this pump’s interest in other aspects of Parkinson’s disease treatment.
