Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative lesion that often occurs in the elderly, clinically with memory impairment, aphasia, aphasia, agnosia, impaired visual space skills, executive dysfunction, and personality and behavioral changes as the main clinical manifestations, the onset before the age of 65 is called early Alzheimer's disease, and the onset after the age of 65 is called senile dementia. #爱乐养生 #
In recent years, the number of elderly people in the mainland has become more and more numerous, and nearly 40% of the elderly have appeared in the performance of Alzheimer's disease, as a common disease of the elderly population, many elderly people are caught in endless panic and worry, afraid that they will also suffer from such a difficult disease later, do not know their relatives, do not know the way home.
As of 2016, there are currently 40 million people living with Alzheimer's disease worldwide, and this number is expected to double every 20 years, with a higher prevalence among women than men, with an average increase in age of 6.1 years.
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What symptoms occur after the onset of Alzheimer's disease?
1. Memory gradually declines
The most typical clinical manifestation of Alzheimer's disease is memory decline, whether it is mild Alzheimer's patients or moderate and severe Alzheimer's patients, memory decline is a very typical kind of performance, often forgetting the things in front of you, even if you just said it will be forgotten.
As the condition worsens, alzheimer's patients also forget their family or friends who are related to them, and the phenomenon of short- and long-term memory loss occurs.
2. Visual space disorder
Many patients with Alzheimer's disease will have memory loss in the early stage, but also accompanied by visual space disorders, patients with Alzheimer's disease when going out shopping or walking, often can not find the way home, with others to accurately describe their living environment, which is a very common clinical manifestation, but also the reason why Elderly dementia patients often lose.
3. Slow response
Most Patients with Alzheimer's disease will have a decrease in their ability to respond in the early stages.
When communicating with others, for some questions that are particularly easy to answer, it also takes a while to think about it before it can be answered, and the reaction ability is particularly slow, often immersed in the previous question, unable to continue the communication.
4. Mood changes
In the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, most patients will show a series of emotional changes, and over a long period of time, the patient's emotions will become more anxious, nervous, and have very obvious negative emotions.
Some patients become suspicious, have no sense of trust in anyone, and become irritable and selfish.
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What people are prone to dementia when they get old? These 9 types of people may be on the list, hope not you
(1) Women after menopause
After entering menopause, due to the decrease in the secretion of estrogen in the body, endocrine disorders, hormone levels, metabolic disorders, the cause of extreme aging of various organs of the body, the probability of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, compared with middle-aged and elderly men will be higher.
(2) Elderly people who have been alone for a long time
The elderly who spend a long time alone, communicate less with the outside world, are unwilling to talk and communicate with others, and like to silently complete their own things will gradually develop a lonely personality, do not talk often, and the brain function cannot be adequately regulated, which will also increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
(3) People who have suffered severe head injuries
Elderly people who have experienced severe trauma to the head or hemorrhage due to accidental rupture of cerebral blood vessels will age and decline faster than their peers after the stage, and the risk of Developing Alzheimer's disease will be higher.
(4) People with high cysteine
If the body is long-term deficient in folic acid, accompanied by elevated homocysteine values, such middle-aged and elderly people will have a higher chance of developing Alzheimer's disease as they age.
The body often lacks vitamins, and the value of cysteine is not stable, which will destroy the excitability of the central nervous system of the brain, accelerate the decline of the brain nerves, impair the memory of the elderly, and reduce the activity of brain thinking.
(5) People with a family history of Alzheimer's disease
Relevant expert studies have found that Alzheimer's disease has a certain family heredity, but if there have been elderly dementia patients or immediate family members in the family who are Alzheimer's patients, the probability of children suffering from Alzheimer's disease will be higher.
(6) Diabetic patients
Diabetes is also known as "undead cancer", the main cause of diabetes is related to insufficient insulin function or secretion disorders, when the blood glucose concentration in the body continues to rise, not stable in time, it will affect the blood flow of the whole body, resulting in local ischemia and hypoxia in the brain.
The sugar flowing in the blood will also affect the excitability of the central nervous system of the brain, causing the memory loss of the elderly, the brain's mental activity becomes sluggish, and the incidence of Alzheimer's disease is increased.
(7) People with abnormal thyroid hormones
As a very important gland in the body, the main function of the thyroid gland is to secrete thyroid hormone and growth hormone, when the amount of abnormal thyroid function secretion in the body is reduced or increased, it will make the brain shrink into active and slow.
It is the elderly who enter the old age stage, it is difficult to concentrate, joint soreness, muscle atrophy, brain thinking is affected, muscle strength is reduced, and the risk of alzheimer's disease is increased.
(8) Patients with hyperlipidemia
Hyperlipidemia is a very common cardiovascular disease, when the concentration of cholesterol in the blood vessels, triglycerides increase will induce hyperlipidemia, if the usual diet is not healthy and irregular, often ingest high greasy and high fat food, will also make the blood lipid concentration increase, if not in time conditioning will induce hyperlipidemia complications, will also increase the risk of alzheimer's disease.
(9) Elderly people with irregular work and rest
If there is a bad habit of staying up late often, the probability of such elderly people suffering from Alzheimer's disease will be higher, sleep is the premise of maintaining good health, about 1/3 of a person's life is spent in sleep, the night is the internal organs, the process of self-cleaning and detoxification is also the time for brain nerve rest.
Elderly people who stay up late for a long time, lack of sleep quality, or often insomnia and dreams cannot sleep, brain function will also be affected to a certain extent, increasing the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in the future.
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How to prevent Dementia?
1. Insisting on exercise and exercising regularly can ensure that the brain gets a stable blood supply, improves autoimmunity and resistance, enhances physical fitness, improves brain activity, and reduces the incidence of Alzheimer's disease.
2, move the hands, the active hands can reduce the appearance of brain aging this condition.
3, more brain, the elderly must use more brain, often think about the problem or read more books, can ensure that the patient's brain is in an active state, which to a large extent prevents the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease.
4, actively carry out social activities, social activities will produce some stimulation to the brain, the elderly to maintain this activity, can reduce the incidence of Alzheimer's disease.
5, healthy diet, people to eat for the day, bad eating habits are the main cause of high incidence of diseases, the same, healthy diet can also help the elderly to reduce the incidence of various chronic diseases and Dementia, the diet of the elderly as far as possible to light, eat less greasy spicy and irritating food, and actively supplement vitamins and dietary fiber.