Alzheimer's disease is generally referred to as Alzheimer's disease, a degenerative lesion of the nervous system. The cause of the disease is not very clear, but it is generally believed to be related to factors such as environment and genetics.
The incidence of Alzheimer's disease is getting higher and higher, and in China, the incidence of the elderly population over 65 years old is 3% to 7%, and it shows an upward trend year by year.
Alzheimer's disease is divided into mild, moderate and severe three stages, if there is no early treatment and conditioning in the mild, once it enters the moderate and severe stages, it will make the patient lose various physiological functions, and even make the elderly die due to systemic infection.
Therefore, in daily life, if there is an elderly person at home, once the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease appear, it must be treated as soon as possible.
However, there are many people who do not know what specific symptoms of Alzheimer's disease will be before the onset of the disease. Below, let's make the most detailed introduction for everyone, let's take a look at it.
What are the symptoms of pre-Alzheimer's disease?
First, the memory decline rate is relatively fast
In the period before the onset of Alzheimer's disease, and at the beginning of the disease, the patient's memory decline will be relatively fast.
In the early stages, patients will suddenly forget some things that have just happened, such as suddenly forgetting some things they are about to do.
Or some items that I use every day, but I suddenly forget where to put them.
When this situation occurs more and more frequently, patients begin to experience long-term memory loss, such as for some things in the past or some characters in the past, there will be unclear memorization.
Especially for the past that you once remembered very clearly, there will be a sudden blurring of memory, or a phenomenon that you can't remember directly.
Second, there are visual space disorders
Most people with Dementia have visual space disorders in the early stages, such as suddenly unable to find a way home after going out shopping.
Or in a very familiar environment, such as a walk in a community park, it suddenly happens that you don't know where you should go, and you can't find your way home, and if others ask, you can't accurately describe the location of your family.
These symptoms are not very obvious in the early days, but they appear occasionally. However, with the gradual development of the disease, this visual space disorder will become more and more serious, and even the behavior of not being able to find your own room at home will occur.
However, this situation is generally a phenomenon that manifests itself when you are in moderate dementia.
Third, the temperament began to change
For example, the elderly who are particularly cheerful become very silent, or there are some negative emotions. Or the elderly have become unclean, irritable, and even very selfish and suspicious.
And in the face of some more complex or unfamiliar things, there will be obvious anxiety and negative emotions.
For the elderly over 65 years old, if there are symptoms of different degrees of the above three in daily life, and there will be a decline in the ability to learn and preserve new knowledge, then it is necessary to be vigilant, and it is very likely that it is related to Alzheimer's disease.
Then be sure to take the elderly to the hospital for a detailed examination in time, and give corresponding treatment according to the degree of the disease. It is even more necessary to do a good job in home care work in order to avoid entering the stage of moderate and severe Alzheimer's disease to the greatest extent.