The name Alzheimer's disease seems a little unfamiliar, but its other common name must be familiar to everyone, that is-Alzheimer's disease, as can be seen from the name, the main target of this disease is the elderly, so it is also a disease that seriously endangers the physical and mental health of the elderly, let us walk into the story of Uncle Liu and unveil the mystery of Alzheimer's disease.
Uncle Liu in Shandong is the management of a company, and there are many affairs, but as Uncle Liu grows older, he slowly retreats to the second line, and there is less and less work to do, and Uncle Liu is 59 years old, it is equivalent to living a retired life, leisurely and ruthless, basically there is no affairs to disturb him, and he is also idle.
With a lot of free time, Uncle Liu also bought a recliner in the office, and when he had nothing to do, he lay on the chair and squinted for a while, and that day was also a happy day, but this happy day did not last long, in 2021, the 60-year-old Uncle Liu entered the age of retirement, which was originally a happy thing, but Uncle Liu has been depressed, it turned out that he felt that he was starting to be confused.
Uncle Liu found that his memory became very poor, take the mobile phone as an example, sometimes he clearly thought about what to do with the mobile phone, but when the screen lit up, looking at the colorful APP on the screen, Uncle Liu suddenly felt that his brain was blank, I don't know what he was going to do when he opened the mobile phone just now, sometimes Uncle Liu tossed the mobile phone repeatedly for several minutes in order to buy something, but he has not opened the shopping APP.
Then Uncle Liu found that his attention was particularly inattentive, often when other people's stomachs were talking to themselves, others were talking about the sky, spitting everywhere, he looked at other people's faces, but suddenly felt very strange, and then his thoughts slowly drifted away, so what others said, he didn't know, but fortunately, Uncle Liu is now taking a back seat, and he doesn't care so much about the decline in communication skills, but this also affects Uncle Liu's daily life very much.
And the most serious thing is that Uncle Liu can't accurately express what he wants to say, and he can't even say the correct name, he can clearly figure out the appearance of objects in his brain, but he just can't say it, as if the brain is short-circuited, and slowly both Uncle Liu and the people around him noticed his abnormality.
Then went to the hospital, the doctor through Uncle Liu's symptom description, inferred that Uncle Liu is now in the early stage of Alzheimer's disease, memory decline, and cognitive ability also has a certain disorder, and then did the most brainwave examination, found that Uncle Liu's α waves have decreased a lot, this waveform change can assist in determining the doctor's conjecture, and then with the help of imaging technology, it was found that Uncle Liu's brain has atrophied to a certain extent, because the atrophied brain, compared with the opposite ventricle is also empty.
Then, with the help of MRI, I saw Uncle Liu's bilateral temporal lobe lesions, as well as atrophy of the hippocampus, and at this time, imaging confirmed that Uncle Liu was suffering from Alzheimer's syndrome. In the face of this disease, Uncle Liu and his family members seem a little inexplicable, is this disease harmful? became the only question in the hearts of this group of people.
Of course, the harm of Alzheimer's disease is very serious, this disease called Alzheimer's disease will first affect the intelligence of the elderly, the intelligence of the elderly will have progressive deterioration, memory loss, cognitive ability reduction, and may even completely lose the ability to speak, some patients will even have repeated clothing and clothing behavior, and the most classic behavior of Alzheimer's disease is not to find the way home.
Because of the decline of cognitive ability, the patients often open the door involuntarily to go out, and after walking a certain distance, they forget the route they walked when they went out, and due to the decline of memory and the confusion of the language center, they do not remember where their home is, and it is very difficult to communicate with others, so the old man who has lost the ability to take care of himself is in great danger outside, and this behavior will also cause great distress to the patient's family, so this disease is very hateful.
After figuring out the dangers of Alzheimer's disease, Uncle Liu's family was very puzzled, how did this Alzheimer's find Uncle Liu? The doctor sighed: Don't talk about Uncle Liu, the incidence of Alzheimer's disease is rising in a straight line, and there is a reason why Alzheimer's disease will be more and more!
First of all, genetics is one of the main reasons for the increase in the incidence of Alzheimer's disease, if there are patients with Alzheimer's disease in the family, then other members of the family will increase the risk of disease by about 10% after aging, this number can not be considered low, so this kind of people should pay special attention to some of their habits to avoid Alzheimer's disease to find themselves.
The increase in patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases is very simple, when such diseases occur, the blood supply and oxygen supply to the brain will be more or less affected, resulting in brain cell atrophy, resulting in the disease of Alzheimer's disease, and because of the improvement of living standards, the incidence of cardiovascular disease is also increasing, so the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease is also increasing.
At this time, Uncle Liu's family members were full of mourning, and the whole ward was noisy crying for a while, at this time the doctor hurriedly said: Although this disease is very terrible, but with treatment can also prolong the life cycle for a long time, and can also improve the patient's happiness index!
The doctor continued to add: After entering middle age and being over 50 years old, while following the doctor's instructions, he also paid attention to getting rid of these three bad habits in his life, so that the storage situation will not deteriorate, and the current situation can be improved!
Poor eating habits, it is too general to say directly, poor eating habits are multifaceted, so the improvement should also start from many aspects, improving the diet is mainly to ensure the health of the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular vessels and supplement adequate nutrition, so avoid high salt and high sugar food intake, so as to avoid the production or deterioration of high blood pressure and high blood sugar, in addition, the diet should be diversified, to eat everything, and can not eat only one food for a long time, so that the body will lack certain elements, resulting in health impact.
No exercise training, training here refers to both physical training, but also refers to intellectual training, training is a very critical step for the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer's disease, first exercise can also promote the health of the brain, because aerobic exercise, can help people enhance lung function, strengthen blood circulation, so as to ensure that the brain will not be troubled by hypoxia and ischemia, and exercise thinking can also prevent brain degeneration, a word is good, use in waste retreat, so long-term use of the brain will slowly degenerate.
Not social, the reason why many elderly people suffer from Alzheimer's disease is because as an empty nester, they are alone all the year round, which will lead to the breeding of bad emotions of the elderly, and they are in a lonely and hesitant mood all day long, resulting in serious cognitive decline, and perennial silence will also lead to the loss of language ability, so they will slowly become unable to speak.
In addition, the family should pay attention to guiding the elderly to make friends and actively participate in social activities to help keep their heads clear and maintain their health.