Prevent Alzheimer's disease, old and middle -aged people should pay attention to

Text/Yangcheng Evening News all -media reporter Lin Qingqing correspondent Jin Ting

September 21st this year is the 29th World Alzheimer's Day. Zhang Yuhu, chief physician of the Department of Neuroscience of the People's Hospital of Guangdong Province, said that he should pay attention to identifying the early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and early consultation. Early diagnosis and early treatment are very important. Both ages of old, middle, and young people should pay attention to.

According to Zhang Yuhu, Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is also known as Alzheimer's Alzheimer. Its onset may be related to abnormal starch protein in the brain, forming starch -like plaques and nerve fiber entanglement. Neurological degeneration is also the most common type of dementia.

It is reported that with the aging of the global population, the incidence of Alzheimer's disease and the number of patients have increasing. It is estimated that a patient with Alzheimer's disease will be added every 3 seconds.

According to reports, the number of Alzheimer's patients in my country has reached 10 million. These patients usually cannot take care of themselves in the middle and late stages, and they need their family care, which has a heavy burden on our society and thousands of families. A study in 2015 reported that the total per capita cost of Alzheimer's disease patients per year was about 120,000 yuan, including medical expenses, care and nursing costs, transportation for medical treatment, and accommodation costs. In 2020, the direct and indirect cost of patients with Alheimer's disease patients was as high as 1.6 trillion yuan.

Pay attention to these early signs!

Zhang Yuhu said that the elderly's memory loss is often easily mistaken for normal aging, delaying the timing of diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, if Alzheimer's early signs occur, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible. It is best to go to a hospital with a medical obstacle clinic for cognitive testing and related examinations.

一些典型的早期征兆包括：记忆减退、做不好熟悉的工作、语言能力减退、搞不清时间或地点、判断思维能力减退、把握做事进度有困难、东西放错地方、情绪和行为出现改变、 It is difficult to understand visual and space information and shrink back from work or social activities.

As the condition worsens, it may occur, loss, suspiciousness, irritability and other personality changes, or abnormal behaviors such as hiding unimportant things, making speaking is becoming more and more difficult, so that they cannot live independently.

Treatment as soon as possible can delay brain functional recession

Although there is no drug that can cure Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer's disease is still a disease that can be treated.

Studies have shown that choosing the correct medicine for early treatment and combined with non -drug treatment methods can effectively improve the symptoms of patients, effectively delay the decline of brain function, improve the quality of life of patients, reduce the burden on the caregiver, and delay the patient entering the nursing institution for care time. At the same time, it is also important to establish correct treatment expectations.

According to Zhang Yuhu, the drug treatment of Alzheimer's disease is mainly to use drugs that improve cognitive ability for symptomatic treatment. At present, the new drug research and development of Alzheimer's disease is very active. More than 140 new drugs are in clinical research and development, of which more than 30 kinds of drugs have entered the phase III clinical trial. It is hoped that the results of new drug research and development can bring Alzheimer's treatment for treatment of Alzheimer's disease treatment. breakthrough.

At the same time, non -drug treatment is also important for Alzheimer's disease. Conditional patients can perform appropriate physical exercise, such as playing Tai Chi; participating in cognitive training and rehabilitation projects; cultivating personal hobbies, and maintaining some entertainment activities such as art and calligraphy; Passing, you can consult your doctor if you need to wear non -invasive ventilator to improve sleep quality.

Different ages should pay attention to prevention

Don't think that dementia only needs to pay attention to the elderly. Feng Shujun, a neurologist at the People's Hospital of Guangdong Province, reminded that research shows that the onset of Alzheimer's disease is important with lifestyle and basic diseases. Low education, insufficient physical exercise, sleep problems, severe pressure, adaptation of disorder, head trauma, depression anxiety, hearing loss, constipation, abnormal weight loss, hearing loss, hypotension, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes, etc. It is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. Therefore, people with different ages should conduct early intervention for risk factors:

Source | Yangcheng Evening News · Yangcheng School

Responsible editor | Liu Xinyu

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