Is this senile disease? Alzheimer's Harmo's disease (AD), also known as Alzheimer's Harmo's disease, usually occurs in people over 70 years old, so AD is a senile disease. With the development of aging, the age of patients with Alzheimer's disease has expanded to about 50-90 years old, and the incidence rate has increased year by year. At present, there are about 48 million patients in the world, and a new case will be added every 3 seconds. With the aging of population, the harm of Alzheimer's disease is becoming more and more obvious.
The harm and development of Alzheimer's Harmo's disease, let's use the word Alzheimer's Harmo's disease. At first, the symptoms are very mild, such as memory loss and careless handling of things, which is very common among the elderly. However, if this situation continues for a year or two, the situation will start to deteriorate. For example, memory is severely damaged and outdoor activities cannot be carried out independently. This stage can last for 2 to 8 years; After that, what is more serious is the complete loss of memory, inability to take care of themselves, incontinence, reticence, stiff body, inseparable from people's care, and eventually coma, usually dying of complications such as infection. So it can be roughly divided into these three periods.
So how to distinguish Alzheimer's disease from simple senile degeneration in the early stage? From the above analysis, we know that the early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease are somewhat similar to normal natural aging of the elderly. It is precisely because of this that it is extremely easy to be ignored. So how should we distinguish? Several key and important checkpoints can tell you:
Do you get lost in places where you often move? Will you forget what happened ten minutes or half an hour ago? Have you not expressed what you want to say for a long time? Can't say the name of your child or spouse for a long time? Did you have a mild personality before and gradually become irritable and suspicious? Are you acting very insecure? If these situations occur, family members should pay attention to them.
There is also a three-question test: the first question: read five words on the paper: red, velvet, chrysanthemum, face and church. Say five more words in five minutes.
Objective: To test a person's delayed memory, not just immediate memory.
Question 2: What year is this year? What month is it now? What city are you in now? What day is it today?
Objective: To test the sense of time and space, also called time orientation and orientation orientation.
Question 3: Say a word:? When the dog is in the room, the cat always hides under the sofa? , need to be able to repeat it.
Objective: To test the fluency of language functions.
If you can't judge and need medical help, what tests should you do? First of all, neurology department also has some complete sets of test methods to judge the severity of AD, which are quantified by scoring model, such as physical self-care ability, tool use ability, behavioral and mental symptom evaluation and so on.
Secondly, hematology and imaging examination should be carried out. In fact, hematology mainly excludes the interference of other diseases. What is really meaningful is imaging examination, such as head CT scan and magnetic resonance imaging. If the cerebral cortex shrinks obviously and the subcortical blood vessels change obviously, it can support the diagnosis of AD.
It is also an auxiliary method to extract cerebrospinal fluid for detection, but after all, extracting cerebrospinal fluid is traumatic and has low specificity, so it is best to diagnose it directly with some instruments. Some auxiliary diagnostic methods, such as positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and electroencephalogram (EEG), can also improve the reliability of diagnosis of Alzheimer's Harmo's disease.
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