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 OTHER NAMES
- Involuntary movements of the extremities.
DEFINITION
It is the appearance of involuntary quakes that deteriorate when the person tries to move or to become active. It is a neurological illness that tends to appear in certain families.
CAUSES
Sometimes the quake is personal and it does not affect the family, but in general it is usually hereditary appearing with the age. There is not known the concrete cause of the familiar quake.
SYMPTOMS
Since it is natural the principal symptom is the appearance of occasional quakes and that appear as in intermittent sprouts from 6 to 10 quakes per second.
They can affect the quakes to the head, the hands, the arms, the eyelids or the voice, and deteriorate with the voluntary movements and the emotional stress. They usually do not affect to the legs. The quakes usually disappear with the sleep.
Also he can interfere with the feeding process and occasionally he can compromise the speech.
DIAGNOSIS
The symptoms are typical and only there is realized a study of the familiar history of the process.
Others must be discarded it causes of quake as the excess of stress, the exaggerated ingestion of caffeine, the withdrawal symptoms of alcohol, the capture of certain medicines, the hipertiroidismo, or the presence of a feocromocitoma.
TREATMENT
It is necessary to treat a quake that he interferes with the aptitude of the patient to carry out the daily normal activities. To avoid the caffeine and other stimulants, because, often, they worsen the quakes.
The alcoholic beverages in small quantities can always diminish the quakes, but it is necessary to be careful of not producing a dependency of the same one.
Diverse medicines have been used for the quake as there can be the propranolol, the misoline and other anticonvulsivantes and tranquilizers.
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