Alzheimer's is scary, how to early detection and prevention?
Alzheimer's is a disease that afflicts many older people, and in moderately severe cases it can even cause them to forget their loved ones! So how do you detect and prevent it early?
As we age, brain function declines. If a person occasionally forgets an appointment, a phone number, or a person's name, but is able to remember it after a while, this is a normal phenomenon caused by a person's advancing age.
An Alzheimer's patient, on the other hand, has a memory disorder not unlike ordinary forgetfulness. Not only do they forget what they just did and said, but they remember even less in the future. If they continue to ask or do the same things over and over again, that's when sobriety needs to be brought to the attention of family members.
Why does this happen? On the one hand, it's because of the disease itself: dementia starts insidiously and progresses slowly, making it easy to overlook in the early stages; on the other hand, patients and their families often mistake forgetfulness and forgetfulness in old age as a normal phenomenon.
Early intervention is also needed to prevent the disease in daily life, such as encouraging patients to use their brains more, read newspapers and receive information, and also do some appropriate exercise, such as swimming, playing tai chi, square dancing, etc., and communicating with other people can also help reduce the incidence of dementia.
Additionally, attention should be paid to the prevention of dementia risk factors, namely cerebrovascular factors, such as controlling blood pressure, controlling blood sugar, controlling blood lipids, controlling atrial fibrillation and so on. In short, Alzheimer's is a preventable and treatable disease, even though it is not completely curable.
When the elderly appear dementia, there will be memory loss, near things forgotten, far things clear symptoms; comprehension will also be greatly reduced, IQ as if back to childhood; the patient's behavioral and emotional, appearance will change, and there will be a **** ji disorders, language barriers.
Honoring your parents must start with observing their feet. Spend some time every week now to touch your parents' feet, don't wait until you can't find him all over the street one day and then regret looking around. You can fight Alzheimer's by rubbing the cerebellar brainstem reflex zone.