Breathing with PD

Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:04 am Post subject: Breathing with PD

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Dear Doctor,

In reply to your article "Weight Loss" with PD.

I understand Breathing difficulties with PD i.e tightness and contraction in the throat weaken muscles that control breathing .


The breathing is not in full i.e the chest wall doesn't move i.e reducing sense of smell that dampen the appetites contributing the malnutrition.

Therefore people have PD find difficulty/ reducing sniffing i.e desperately difficulties breathing large amount of air. As the result PD patients have masked face ( muscle stiffness)

There are 40% at the older age die on pneumonia worsen made by PD itself.

Therefore PD is a Body, Mind and Soul disorders diseases.

Kindly comment.

Thanks

Teo Kim Hoe

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Dr. Okun



Joined: 19 Jan 2007
Posts: 251
Location: University of Florida
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:47 am Post subject:

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In general breathing problems in PD are not prominent, although late in the disease we worry about immobility and swallowing dysfunction leading to aspiration pneumonia.

Earlier sometimes wearing off of medications can result in shortness of breath.
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Michael S. Okun, M.D.

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