Dementia Symptoms

Disease dementia is better known by its second name - dementia. It is an organic brain damage that introduces a person into a special state. This disorder, like dementia (dementia) is accompanied by a violation of perception of reality, intelligence, speech, memory and other functions.

Types of dementia

In the course of aggravation of the stage of dementia, the disease has the property to lead to complete disadaptation in the social plan. The most common type of dementia is senile, irreversible.

Classify dementia of the brain in the following way:

• dementia associated with neurological diseases, or with cardiovascular (this includes Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis of cerebral vessels,);
• dementia with intoxication (this type occurs in case of alcohol abuse or, for example, poisoning with constant poisons);
• dementia associated with internal organs (this type includes, for example, hepatic and renal insufficiency);
• dementia on the background of thyroid dysfunction;
• dementia associated with a thiamine deficiency;
• dementia associated with drug poisoning;
• dementia on the background of infectious diseases of the brain (syphilis, meningitis), hydrocephalus, brain tumors, HIV.

The causes of dementia lie in different phenomena. In old age this is often the abuse of medicines, and such a disease immediately gets the status of irreversible.

Dementia Symptoms

It is very easy to notice signs of dementia, which at first are quite simple, and then more and more intensified, hindering the social life of a person. The most common symptom is forgetfulness, which is also one of the first signs of dementia. The remaining symptoms are distinguished among the following phenomena:

1. Forgetfulness is growing: a person first forgets something that was long ago, and then what happened just now. The past is also gradually erased.
2. Problems with orientation: people who suffer from dementia, are poorly oriented and easily can get lost in the usual locality.
3. Difficulty with planning: it is very difficult for a person to think up a schedule for himself or arrange an appointment in advance.
4. Disorders of thinking: the function of speech and memory is gradually weakened.
5. Difficulties in everyday life: a man gradually turns out to be unable to dress or eat a fork, because of which they connect dementia and untidiness, untidiness.
6. Changing behavior and even character traits. Usually there is insomnia, suspiciousness, aggression, excessive excitability.

It is with the first symptoms you need to start active prophylaxis, so as not to aggravate the disease.

Prevention of dementia

Prevention is important at the very beginning, because this can completely stop the course of the disease. First of all, a set of measures should include a healthy lifestyle and proper nutrition, which significantly reduces the risk of cerebral ischemia, arterial hypertension, heart pathologies and diabetes, which are faster all lead to the development of such a disease. In the treatment of dementia, often used drugs, the effectiveness of which has been clinically proven, as well as those that are supposed to be effective:

• cholinesterase inhibitors;
• antagonists of NMDA receptors;
• drugs with neurotrophic action;
• holinomimetiki.

With timely access to a doctor, it is possible to significantly improve the patient's condition, suspend, delay or even cure the disease. The main thing is not to overburden the body from a young age, because you will have to pay for mistakes.