The clean grandma suddenly loves picking up trash, beware!Anomalial behavior and character change may be ...

Wuhan Evening News September 21 (Reporter Qi Yan Correspondent Liu Shanshan) The family "not bad money", and she also loved clean grandma, but suddenly became loved to pick up garbage. Grandpa's temperament changed greatly and was irritable. He always suspected that he had entered the thief at home. He found that the two elderly people actually suffered from Alzheimer's disease.

Neurological doctors give patients to check the house to explain the precautions. Correspondent Liu Shanshan Photo

September 21 is the World Alzheimer's Disease Day. Experts from neurology at Wuhan Central Hospital reminded that Alzheimer's disease is not just manifested as a decrease in memory, three declines, and abnormal spiritual behavior. Early signs of dementia.

Grandma of engineer picks up tatters every day

Not frugal but suffering from Alzheimer's disease

Hankou 68 -year -old Grandma Xu was a senior engineer before retiring, and the family's economic conditions were not bad. She usually loves cleanliness, and she is clean and orderly at home. But from a year ago, Grandma Xu changed his personal. He often turned in the trash can in the community and picked up the beverage bottles, carton boxes, etc. At the beginning, her wife and children thought she was diligent and frugal, but later she saw waste products and garbage on the road. Grandma Xu did not sell these garbage that picked up, but used them as "babies" to collect them at home. The family persuaded her to not pick up garbage at home, but she always didn't listen and piled up the bedroom and living room. The family noticed that her situation was getting more and more serious, and I was a little worried, and quickly took her to Wuhan Central Hospital for treatment.

After Luo Tao, deputy chief physician of the neurology department of the hospital, Grandma Xu's family and doctor talked about her abnormalities of picking up garbage. After detailed consultation and cognitive assessment tables, blood tests and imaging examinations, it was judged that Grandma Xu had cognitive behavior disorders, and finally diagnosed Grandma Xu suffering from Alzheimer's Alzheimer.

Grandpa sexual temperament becomes grumpy and irritable

Suspicious ghosts are actually dementia

Grandpa Zhang, 70, usually has a gentle personality, smart and capable. After retirement, he helps pick up his grandchildren to school every day. As the children grew up, he was also idle at home.

In the past two years, Grandpa Zhang, who had a good temper for a lifetime, suddenly changed his temperament, and his temper became irritable and irritable. He often did not care too much because of a small matter. Later, it was discovered that Grandpa Zhang's memory gradually deteriorated. Before going out, he always had to repeatedly confirm whether the electrical appliances at home were closed. Sometimes I didn't remember what I just said. Entering the thief and stealing his things. To this end, the son was also installed at home, but no stranger had been here. Last week, his son took him to the neurology department of Wuhan Central Hospital.

Doctors evaluated them with a cognitive scale, and the results showed that patients had cognitive impairment. Further magnetic resonance examinations, the hippocampus area atrophied, and diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

6 early signals that identify Alzheimer's dementia

Early discovery and early intervention can delay the progress of the condition

"Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia in the elderly. It is a degenerative disease of the nervous system. In addition to genetic, age, brain trauma, cerebrovascular disease The risk factor that caused dementia. "The director of the Department of Neurology of the hospital introduced that in recent years, with the increase in living standards, the per capita life expectancy has increased, and more and more people with dementia are increasing. When the elderly have forgotten and throw the symptoms of three places and four, the family often feels that this is the normal aging manifestation of the elderly. It is not until the symptoms are severe to seek medical treatment. They often miss the best treatment period.

Early symptoms of Alzheimer's early symptoms: 1. Memory decreased, often forgetting what just happened; 2. The computing power decreases, the calculation speed is significantly slower, and the calculation is easy to make mistakes; Instead of appropriate words; 4. timing and directional disorders, unclear current time and location; 5. Emotional personality changes and mental behavior abnormalities, irritability, irritability, sensitive and suspicious, hallucinations. 6. Judgment disorder, cannot make correct judgments on things around.

Generally, everyone thinks that the early manifestations of Alzheimer's disease decline in memory, but some patients are still the first symptoms of character change or mental behavior abnormalities. Typical symptoms of dementia such as directional force, decreased execution ability.

September 21 is the World Alzheimer's Day. The theme of this year is "Knowing and Preventing Early Wisdom." Early discovery and early treatment are the key to treating Alzheimer's disease. Although dementia cannot be cured at present, it can delay the progress of the disease through drug treatment and lifestyle intervention.

To prevent dementia, we must first prevent arteriosclerosis, actively treat chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and adhere to low sugar, low -salt, and low -fat diet; develop good living habits, regular work, and exercise appropriately; usually more intellectual training; , Diligent in the brain, studying new things through reading, reading newspapers, and multiple movement of finger joints, such as chess, playing mahjong, etc., to prevent brain aging; try to maintain a happy mood, communicate more with others, and participate in social activities.

[Edit: Yu Lina]

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