Does meds base on dopamine work for Prakinson’s? my dad is Parkinson sufferer, he is on Levodopa therapy. I understood that Levodopa is dopamine. What more can you tell me about it?
Levodopa is medication that passes into the brain where it is transformed into dopamine, because dopamine itself does not naturally cross into the brain. Majority of Parkinson's disease patients receive levodopa therapy More than 30 years after its discovery. It is highly effective in controlling most symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Once in the body, it is broken down by molecules called enzymes. This reduces the amount of medication that can reach the brain.