Post Date December, 03 2023
Forget things, and your character becomes strange!
A female patient in her 70s, who is a retired professor of university, has always been kind, but becomes critical when she gets old. In a short time, she has changed dozens of nannies in succession. She has various reasons to say that the nanny "stole money", "didn't give her food", "stole her quilt", "seduced her husband"
There is also an old woman in her 60s who lives in her eldest son's home. Other children came to see her and asked her if she had eaten. She always said "no". Ask repeatedly, and still answer "I really didn't eat". Slowly, the old man remembered nothing
The two old people's character or memory have changed significantly, but they actually have Alzheimer's.
This is also the manifestation of Alzheimer's disease
The main symptom of Alzheimer's disease is memory loss. Some things are remembered very well, and some things are not remembered at all. At the beginning, it was mainly manifested by the recent memory decline - remember the events decades ago, but don't remember whether you had breakfast that day. Forget to turn off the fire and gas when cooking, and forget the way home in a familiar place... With the development of the disease, old and new memories are not clear.
In addition, the obvious change of personality is also the early manifestation of Alzheimer's. The old people who used to be generous, kind and generous are now selfish and mean; People who are originally frank will become haggard and suspicious; People who were warm and hospitable have become unfriendly and acerbic; People who used to pay attention to cleanliness have become disheveled and littered.
Only early treatment can have good effect
At present, early diagnosis, early treatment, improvement of symptoms and slowing down the progress of the disease are the best methods.
In the middle and late stage, the drug efficacy will deteriorate, the drug cost will increase greatly, and the patient will become uncontrollable, emotional out of control, words and actions out of control, and life can not be taken care of by himself, just like a child. Most patients will have mental symptoms, such as hallucinations, hallucinations, etc., and need to be watched at any time.
Suspected of getting sick?
"Draw a clock" self-test
Let him draw a clock and draw a circle;
Let him mark the numbers on the clock;
Draw the long needle and short needle;
Report the time and ask the old man to draw the hour hand and minute hand.
In the above steps, as long as the elderly can't do anything, they should be alert to cognitive problems and go to the hospital neurology department for examination.
