[Alzheimer's Disease Day] Memory loss, upset and irritable, be alert to Alzheimer's disease

Today is the World Alzheimer's Day. I thought Alzheimer was far away from us, but we didn't find it. Experts remind that memory is reduced, upset, and must be alert to Alzheimer's disease.

I thought it was menopausal, one check Alzheimer's disease

Ms. Xu is 55 years old and has been menopause for 3 years. Recently, she has symptoms such as annoying irritability, love, fire, and memory loss. The family has always felt that she had not ended in menopause and she didn't care.

However, the situation is getting worse, Ms. Xu not only lost three or four, one time she couldn't find the way home. The family quickly took her to see the doctor, but was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

"Isn't Alzheimer's disease just forgotten? Why are there so many symptoms?" "If we knew that the mother was the disease, we came to the hospital long ago." Facing the family members of the patient, the second in Nanjing Wang Wei, deputy chief physician of the hospital's neurology department, explained the disease.

These symptoms are alert to Alzheimer's disease

Wang Wei introduced that Alzheimer's disease is a degenerative disease of the central nervous system. It will be difficult to find at the beginning of the condition, but the condition will slowly develop. Mainly manifested symptoms such as gradual memory disorders, cognitive dysfunction, personality changes, and language obstacles, and decreased life behavior ability.

According to epidemiological research reports, among Alzheimer's patients, women are more likely to suffer from Alzheimer's disease than men. Once even diagnosed, women's disease will develop more rapidly.

Just as Ms. Xu, in the early days of Alzheimer's disease, there were many performances that may not be easily discovered in potential patients. If they become suspicious and more vulnerable, their language expression may be that they want to say what they want to say but do not know how to express it correctly. Only when Alzheimer's disease is severe, the language expression is chaotic or visually impairment.

There are also some strange behaviors that may be an early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, such as stealing or other illegal acts, often falling, forgetting the function of objects, unable to identify irony, staring at it, depression, etc. Therefore, you should pay attention to the early recognition of Alzheimer's disease, early diagnosis, and early treatment.

Do four o'clock to prevent Alzheimer's disease

So, how should Alzheimer's disease be prevented? Director Wang gave four suggestions:

First, maintain a good lifestyle. In addition to strengthening physical exercise regularly, in addition to strengthening your body and fitness, you can also help improve emotions and control stress; healthy diet, avoid smoking and alcoholism, too much may reduce memory and thinking processing ability; maintain adequate sleep.

Second, control blood sugar and blood pressure. Actively control blood sugar and blood pressure to avoid obesity. Hypertension and diabetes are all risk factors of Alzheimer's disease.

Third, improve social participation and training cognitive functions. Actively integrate into the society, go out and walk more, communicate with people, and maintain the frequency and density of interpersonal communication. Actively study in life, prevent the brain from idle, participate in some puzzle activities, and enhance cognitive ability.

Finally, the prevention of women before and after menopause. Before and after women's menopause, the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease is an important screening target, so female friends should pay special attention. If there is an endocrine disorders, it should be actively treated, especially to avoid premature suspension.

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Free morning screening project for the second hospital memory clinic

Wang Wei said that Alzheimer's disease can be prevented, but the premise of prevention is early diagnosis. You can diagnose Alzheimer's disease by screening early in the early days. The earlier, the more benefits. To this end, the Second Hospital's Memory Clinic has launched a free early screening project.

1. Opening time

14: 00-17: 00 on Wednesday afternoon

Second, the opening of the consultation

Outpatient Building 2 Floor Neurology

Third, diagnosis and treatment range

Early screening, diagnosis and treatment of memory loss, cognitive disorder and related diseases.

Correspondent Juno

Nanjing Morning Post/Ai Nanjing reporter Qi Zaibing

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