What are the treatments for Parkinson disease and what will be the medical cost for each of them?

Question

Please answer me in detail about Parkinson disease.

Answer 1

Although many doctors still use the drug levodopa (usually in the form of Sinemet) as the first treatment for Parkinson's disease, more and more, experts are recommending that newer drugs, such as Requip and Mirapex be used first. Levodopa is a drug that is converted to dopamine, which increases levels of dopamine in the brain. But large doses can cause disabling side effects, including nausea and painless (but emotionally distressing) involuntary body movements called dystonia. Often, a second drug (a COMT inhibitor such as Comtan or Tasmar) is used in combination with levodopa to maximize efficacy and minimize side effects.

The newer medications, such as Requip and Mirapex, are called dopamine agonists, another type of drug. They work by boosting any surviving dopamine-producing cells and increasing the sensitivity of cells in the brain to dopamine. That is, they make the patient's existing dopamine supply more effective. Other medications used to treat Parkinson's disease include selegiline and amantadine, which can be used alone to treat mild symptoms or in combination with levodopa in more advanced cases. Another class of medicines, known as the anticholinergics, may also be prescribed to help with symptoms such as tremor. Examples of anticholinergics used for Parkinson's disease include Cogentin and Artane.

Your doctor may prescribe or recommend other therapies to help with some of the complications of the disease such as constipation or bladder control problems.

Price of Congentin COGENTIN 2 mg x 100 $21.08

In cases where symptoms no longer respond to medication or become severely disabling, surgery may be recommended to destroy overactive areas of the brain. Although not perfect solutions -- there can be side effects and they may need to be repeated within a few years -- surgical procedures such as pallidotomy and thalamotomy do relieve symptoms and restore day-to-day function for many patients.

Several other promising treatment options are being tested. Small, implantable nerve stimulators have been effective at controlling tremor and reducing the need for medication, but long-term effects are unknown, and the units can be quite expensive.

Fetal cell transplantation is an experimental procedure that has shown mixed results. Although it can take months to see any benefit, some patients have shown significant and long-lasting improvements in rigidity and slowness of movement with the controversial procedure.

Answer 2

The Parkinson's Reversing Breakthrough?

Answer 3

There is, as yet, no cure for Parkinson's Disease (PD). But significant progress has recently occurred in the search for a cure. In the past 10 years or so, several forms of hereditary PD have been discovered and the gene defects responsible for these forms of PD have been identified and studied. This discovery of genetic forms of the disease can be considered a breakthrough discovery in the search for a cure of PD because scientists can use the genes in question to search for the root causes of the disease. For the record, the genetic defects that cause hereditary forms of the disease include mutations (changes in the chemical make-up of the gene) or duplications of portions of the gene in the question. The genes under investigation include the alpha-synuclein gene, the ubiquitin-C-terminal hydrolase-L1 (UCH-L1) gene, the leucine-rich repeat kinase (LRRK)2 genes, and the Parkin, PINK1, DJ-1 and the ATPase13A2 genes. Now, of course, all of these names of genes may just sound like a meaningless foreign language to you. But I assure you that their discovery will lead to significant progress in the search for a cure for PD.

Answer 4

If you want herbal approach, Kapikachu seed powder or Mucuna Pruriens seed (latin name) powder is the correct medicine. Take three times a day, start with 2 pinches powder, mixed with honey. go on increasing 1 pinch every week. If dose becomes larger, you may have vomiting sensation, headache or heaviness in head. Visiting nearby ayurvedic practitioner will be better as he can add a little ashwagandha owder (Witania somnifera) to the medicine, depending on pulse.
If you can get raw milk, or can take raw free range eggs, they will support the above medicine.
Both powders are so inexpensive that do not worry about cost at all. In India, one month medicine just costs 50 Rs or 1 US$.

Answer 5

Parkinson Disease, is a Neurological Disorder. Depending on the seriousness, surgery might be the option.. The relative medical cost, you have to find out from the hospitals... i got a website that might be helpful to you:

www.pdf.org or you may go to yahoo search engines to find out more abt it..

Answer 6

A low cost and natural way to reverse Parkinson's is to consume glyconutrients.

Information and testimonials are on my page.