Dementia is caused by the transformation of a person's personality. As a rule, such changes occur with age, mostly people over 60 years old. The disease progresses as short-term memory reduction and learning abilities against aging. However, no always forgetfulness of an elderly person is a symptom of illness. If a healthy man of old age can miss out of memory some details of a recent event, then a sick dementia will forget about the event itself.
Sometimes Dementia is developing rapidly when due to injury, severe illness or serious intocication of the body die cerebral cells.
Forms of the disease
There are two main varieties of illness.
Vascular dementia.
The cause of pathology is the degradation of brain tissues, as a result of which brain circulation becomes defective. Such a development «events» Characteristic for a number of diseases: arterial hypertension, Atherosclerosis, Brain Vessel Ischemia. In addition, people who have suffered in the risk zone Myocardial infarction, suffering diabetes, hyperlipidemia and pathology of the cardiovascular system.
Suddenly reduced intensity blood circulation In the brain, they consider the main sign of the development of the dementia of vascular type. Most often, the disease appears in the history of the people of old age (from 60 to 75 years). Men suffer from a dementia of 1.5 - 2 times more often than women.
Elder Dementia (senile dementia).
This kind of dementia also begins to develop in adulthood. The growing dementia is expressed by a deterioration in memory, resembling an amnesia progressive. Progressive senile dementia ends with a decay of mental activity. This disease occurs in the elderly much more often of the remaining mental disorders, and women are susceptible to senile dementia more than men. The peak of morbidity noted between 65 - 76 years.
Causes of the disease
In addition to general laboratory analyzes, a physician with a patient and his close. Forgetfulness - the main sign of dementia. The specialist will suggest a patient to pass the test, and on the basis of the summed balls will be able to evaluate the general state of the person. Tests, as a rule, contain simple arithmetic tasks, tasks for testing associative and logical thinking.
In some cases, to confirm the diagnosis, they are resorted to magnetic resonance and computed tomography.
In order for a complete picture of the patient's condition, the doctor takes into account his age, the history of his family, the conditions of his life, the presence of other serious diseases that may affect the development of dementia.
Treatment of disease
Dementia is not treated. In 15% of cases, when the disease occurred on the basis of a strong depressive disorder (pseudo-degeneration), the patient's condition can be corrected and is considered reversible. In the remaining cases, the disease inexorably destroys the psyche of man.
All therapeutic treatment methods are reduced to a slowdown in dementia development. If the disorder appeared on the soil of Alzheimer's disease, the dosage remedy was used, which to some extent suspended the course of the disease. Dementia caused by repeated microinsult, treatment is not amenable to treatment, but its development can be suspended, in a timely manner of comprehensive treatment of arterial hypertension.
Ways to stop the progress of brain degradation on the basis of AIDS not yet. Strong excitement, often accompanying dementia, removed with neuroleptics (haloperidol, Sonapaks).
Prevention of dementia
It is impossible to cure this mental pathology, but it's really not to face it at all, approves our site. We give a list of recommendations, observing which, a person will remain in the right mind and memory to the most advanced years.
- Follow arterial pressure and level Cholesterol in blood - Pathological change in their indicators causes brain hypoxia.
- Control the blood sugar level annually - the strength of the vessels and health of the brain neurons depends on it.
- Throw smoking and drink alcoholic beverages at a minimum (and better give up them at all).
- Stimulate blood circulation: arrange hiking daily, go swimming, perform regularly charging.
- Normalize your food diet - let there be mainly useful and nutritious food. Especially «loves» Head Brain Seafood, Raw Vegetables and Fruits, Nuts, Olive Oil.
- Take medications exclusively by appointment of a doctor.
- Take yourself a rule always and everywhere to raise your intelligence. Alzheimer's disease (consequently, dementia) bypass by the part of educated people with an inquisitive mind. Sleep the crosswords, collect thousands of puzzles, read, sign on dancing or drawing courses «from scratch». Do not forget about the beautiful: concerts of classical music and theatrical performances are waiting for you always, there would be a desire!
- Do not refuse an active social position. Communicate a lot, especially pay attention to the circle of communication, which includes people, younger than you. Believe me, they always have something to learn.
- Find a lesson for the soul or pay more hobby time that you already have.
- Hurry to live and love life - she is too short for sick!
Perhaps you knew about these rules before, but did not attach them great importance. However they really work and are excellent «simulator» For clear thinking.
