I occasionally hear such remarks in my life. Alzheimer's disease favors the elderly, people with poor sleep quality are prone to Alzheimer's disease, and people who like playing mahjong are not prone to Alzheimer's disease ... Who are the high-risk groups of Alzheimer's disease?
1. High-risk population of Alzheimer's disease
A very old person
◆ People with a family history of hereditary diseases.
◆ Obese person
◆ People who live alone and are depressed.
◆ Patients with brain diseases
◆ Traumatic brain injury
People with bad eating habits
◆ People who often stay up late or suffer from insomnia.
◆ Long-term lack of athletes
◆ Those with low education level
◆ Those who take too much aluminum.
◆ Postmenopausal women
2. Pay attention to actively eliminating and controlling risk factors.
The occurrence of Alzheimer's disease is often the result of multiple risk factors acting alone or together. High-risk groups prone to Alzheimer's disease should actively eliminate and control the corresponding risk factors, pay attention to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, treat related diseases, pay attention to cultural life and health care activities, improve physical and mental health, and minimize the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease.
Early signs of Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive disease with obvious initial symptoms. However, it is a pity that most elderly people and their families often ignore these symptoms or mistake them for other behavioral changes of the elderly, which leads to the uncontrollable development of Alzheimer's disease.
Therefore, both the elderly and their families should pay attention to the prevention and treatment of early symptoms. Specifically, what are the early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease?
1. Love to hide things and leave things lying around.
When many old people reach a certain age, they change their previous neatness and exquisiteness and start to make their rooms and things messy. They throw things all over the room, and even hide things that people can't find, such as putting watches in the refrigerator and glasses in the closet.
It is generally believed that the old man is in a bad mood and deliberately loses his temper. It was not until he gradually developed Alzheimer's disease that he realized that this was not the case.
In fact, these manifestations are the early manifestations of agnosia and apraxia in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Ignorance means that you can't recognize an object, but you can recognize its tactile or visual elements. Can't mean that although you have normal activity ability and subjective desire, you can't carry out the purposeful actions you have learned. These manifestations are also difficult to distinguish from aphasia, visual-spatial skill disorder and incompetence caused by forgetfulness.
2. Forget the past and the future, and often do things over and over again.
This is the most common symptom of Alzheimer's Harmo's disease: memory impairment, especially near memory impairment, makes people unable to recall what happened hours or even minutes ago.
Patients' daily life is characterized by "forgetfulness" and "forgetting after speaking", repeatedly asking questions they want to know or repeating the same things and doing the same things.
Related to this is writing difficulty. It is believed that dysgraphia is related to long-distance memory disorder. Because of the difficulty in writing, the content words written are not satisfactory. For example, writing a letter is not clear, which is often the first symptom that attracts the attention of family members, especially some elderly people with better cultural literacy.
3. Suspicious, thoughtful, and unsatisfactory.
In the early stage, patients with Alzheimer's disease will have unreasonable personality changes, such as being easily afraid or suspicious, always doubting others or wondering what disease they have.
Difficulty in finding words is often the earliest language barrier of Alzheimer's disease, which is mainly manifested in the inability to find the right words when speaking and often forgetting how to say a word; Or because it is difficult to find words and use too many explanations to express them, it will eventually become nagging.
4. The behavior is too rigid and stubborn
Some patients' personality changes will make their behaviors and ideas tend to be rigid and stubborn. The older I get, the more persistent I am, and the more I look like an old child. Lose your temper at the slightest disappointment.
Behavior is too rigid. There is an old man who wants to do something. If you stop him or help him, he will be unhappy. He'll mess everything up and start over. He must do it himself, and all by himself. If the elderly want to eat at 12, they must wait until the bell of 12 rings, otherwise they will stubbornly refuse to eat.
5. Emotional reaction is weakened and becomes quiet and indifferent.
"With the passage of time, please give me peace and stay away from all kinds of affairs." Wang Wei's poems describe a kind of life in his later years, which is the realm pursued by the poet. In real life, if this tendency exceeds a certain limit, it may be a pathological manifestation.
This is also a common symptom of early Alzheimer's disease. Patients become less active, less active, lonely, selfish and less interested in their surroundings.
However, some former introverts suddenly become extroverts. Many elderly people prefer to go out to play after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, which increases the risk of getting lost.
6. Emotional instability and emotional fragility
Patients with early Alzheimer's disease are usually emotionally fragile. They burst into tears and wept bitterly; Suddenly I couldn't help laughing and excited; Suddenly angry, angry, confused
Due to the gradual deterioration of memory, patients are prone to anxiety. They are emotionally unstable, angry, depressed and negative, and afraid of being alone. If the memory is not obvious, it is easy to be ignored by the family as a simple emotional problem.
7. Eating habits suddenly changed and I like sweets.
A dramatic change in taste, especially a sudden preference for sweets, is another early phenomenon of Alzheimer's disease. A Japanese research report said that it may be because the part of the brain that controls taste buds and appetite has changed. Some patients with Alzheimer's disease even like to eat expired or spoiled food.