Grandma He is a hard-working old man, every day early will go out to buy vegetables, this day, she as usual to buy vegetables, has always been shrewd Grandma He actually miscalculated money, more money for vegetables, fortunately in the vegetables selling aunt reminded Grandma He, but after buying vegetables Grandma He did not know how to go home, in the market around do not know how to be good, it is difficult to turn out but did not go home, fortunately the neighbors encountered on the road brought her back. Grandma He's family immediately sent her to the Department of Neurology of the Second People's Hospital of Hunan Province (Hunan Brain Hospital), and after being diagnosed, Grandma He had Alzheimer's disease.
Yang Qian, deputy chief physician of the second cerebrovascular disease neuronal zone of the Second People's Hospital of Hunan Province (Hunan Provincial Brain Hospital), introduced that Alzheimer's disease, also known as Alzheimer's disease, is a degenerative lesion of the central nervous system that occurs in old age and pre-senia, characterized by progressive cognitive dysfunction and behavioral damage. The early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease are mainly manifested in three aspects: cognitive impairment, decreased ability to perform daily living, and behavioral changes.
1. Cognitive impairment: memory decline, mostly manifested as short-term memory ability decline, long-term memory is still maintained, family members often because the elderly remember the previous things can not remember the current things feel that the elderly are older memory is not good and did not see the doctor in time. Difficulty speaking, manifested in the inability to find suitable words to express intentions, inability to name objects correctly, and incomprehensible sentences. Decreased understanding and judgment: People with dementia may be confused about the time and season and repeatedly deceived by simple scams.
2. Decreased ability to live: repetitive work, repeated language and behavior. Lost, due to the damage to visual space, dementia patients lose the ability to perceive directions, unable to complete work and life used to be very skilled things, such as the old chef suddenly forgot how to stir-fry.
3. Abnormal behavior: Patients may behave differently because of personality changes, such as some patients often pick up strange things at home and regard them as treasures, or become uninterested in things that were previously interested.
Alzheimer's disease generally occurs after the age of 60, but is more common after the age of 70. Onset is subtle and develops slowly. The pathogenesis of dementia has not been elucidated and occurs only under the influence of a variety of factors, including physiological and psychosocial factors, and the following factors are associated with the disease:
1. Family history: dementia is genetically related
2. Some physical diseases: such as thyroid diseases, immune system diseases, epilepsy patients have a higher probability of developing dementia
3. Head trauma
4. Social and psychological factors such as viral infection, widowhood, living alone, economic difficulties, and bumpy life can become the causes of morbidity
In recent years, the global prevalence of Alzheimer's disease has grown rapidly, but there is no way to cure Alzheimer's disease, early detection, early treatment is the most effective measure to reduce the incidence of the disease, and in the mild dementia period to improve memory drugs (such as cholinesterase inhibitors) can effectively delay the development of the disease, so the early diagnosis of elderly dementia patients is particularly important, must be diagnosed early, early treatment!
Contributed by: Zhang Jiayuan, Neuronal Zone II of Cerebrovascular Disease, Second People's Hospital of Hunan Province
Editor: Liu Yuchen
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