Chorea

Disease of a trochee and its form

The chorea concerns to group of diseases of a nervous system. It various factors can provoke, for example, disturbance of process of blood circulation in a brain, viral diseases, rheumatism. Quite often the chorea develops after the long use of strong medicines and after poisoning with chemicals and carbon monoxide. At pregnant women the disease is shown as a result of frequent viral diseases, in particular after quinsy recurrence.

Manifestation of the first symptoms of a chorea has to guard and become an occasion to be inspected at the doctor. First of all the doctor excludes rheumatism as rheumatic chorea most often affects a human body. Other form of a chorea – not rheumatic – a rare disease which arises as a complication of encephalitis and is fraught with paralysis and even a lethal outcome. From a rheumatic chorea children aged from two up to six years, and also pregnant women can suffer. Not rheumatic form of a disease is shown by 25-30 years at persons who had acute infectious diseases in the past.

Separate form the chorea senile is considered. Unlike a rheumatic chorea which is suffered by children it strikes a nervous system of aged people after 60 years, and it is preceded by atherosclerosis. At such form of characteristic symptoms of a chorea does not arise, the mentality practically does not suffer.

The big risk group is children of parents who in the anamnesis have a diagnosis "a rheumatic chorea" or other form of this disease. It is one of the most frequent hereditary diseases, and pathological changes in genes easily pass from father to son. The hereditary form of a disease received the name of a trochee of Gentington.

Symptoms of manifestation of a chorea

The disease can prove not at once. But symptoms of a chorea are usually brightly expressed and poorly similar to manifestations of other frustration of a nervous system. The beginning of an attack is characterized by weakness, the patient cannot stand, move, muscles weaken and lose a tone. Characteristic symptoms of a chorea remind quite natural movements of the person and extremities, smiles, grimaces and other mimic expressions. But all this is made involuntarily and uncontrollable by the person. In hard cases of a trochee at children leads to disturbances of the speech, there are irreversible effects in a cerebellum which lead to a lack of coordination of movements.

As for a mental condition of the patient, it changes at a chorea of Genington too. Memory weakens, cogitative activity is broken, the attention is disseminated, the mood sharply changes. There are hallucinations, the crazy ideas. Simplification comes during sleep the patient, but, as a rule, it is possible to fall asleep hardly because of the shown chorea symptoms.

Chorea diagnostic methods

To diagnose a chorea of Genington or a rheumatic chorea, it is necessary to undergo a number of inspections. Purpose of the correct treatment of a chorea will require blood test of the patient. It is possible to determine by its results, the level of leukocytes is raised or lowered and also whether there is a streptococcal infection. By birth it is possible to find also the rhematoid reasons of a chorea. In the course of diagnosis of a chorea of Genington surely the doctor will study history of diseases of parents of the sick child to define whether heredity is the reason of its aggravation.

During inspection the electroencephalogram and a method of a magnetic and resonant tomography is applied. The chorea is also diagnosed for children and adults by means of a computer tomography.

Features of therapy at treatment of a chorea

The treatment of a chorea appointed by the doctor needs to be carried out in accuracy. Danger of some forms of a disease, in particular choreas of Genington, consists in a frequent recurrence. Therefore it is impossible to scorn opinion of doctors. Very important before development of a chorea in the children having rheumatism to register them in a clinic. It allows to minimize in certain cases chance of development of a severe form of a chorea in children and adults.

Therapy at treatment of a chorea includes a number of drugs. These are antipsychotic and sedative drugs, anti-inflammatory and antiviral drugs, antihistamines and vitamins, means for vasodilatation and for improvement of work of a brain. At a severe form of a chorea of Genington antibiotics are applied. In addition at treatment of a chorea physiotherapeutic procedures, medical radonic bathtubs, and also bathtubs with needles are appointed.

Efficiency of treatment of a chorea depends on that, how correctly and the main reason for development of this disease is timely established. Doctors do not recommend to plan the birth of children to people who in the family anamnesis have a diagnosis of "trochee". If symptoms of a chorea appear at pregnancy of the woman, then chances to give birth to the healthy kid decrease. You should not plan the second pregnancy.

Parents of children with displays of this disease should be very attentive and careful in a talk and behavior. It is impossible to provoke irritation of its nervous system shouts and negative emotions.