Gabriel Miranda Nava | September 21: World Day Of Alzheimer's Disease
Opinion
Before
talking about Alzheimer’s disease, we must understand the concept of dementia,
which is conceptualized as the progressive loss of cognitive functions due to
brain damage or disorders. Characteristically, this cognitive alteration causes
inability to perform the activities of daily life mainly seen in memory,
calculation, way of relating and living together, as well as in decision
making. Many times, dementia is caused by other types of ailments, such as
brain tumors, hydrocephalus, multiple cerebral infarcts, metabolic diseases
such as hypothyroidism, chronic infections; or it can also be simulated by
anxiety and chronic depression. Being the most frequent cause of dementia
(although we already stressed that it is not the only one), Alzheimer’s disease
was discovered and reported in 1907 by the German Alois Alzheimer, and it is
when until a few years ago it was of unusual characteristics due to the poor
expectation of life, but by increasing this, a series of chronic degenerative
diseases are derived at the same time, with an increase in their frequency of
appearance, among them the condition that welcomes us today. This degenerative
dementia is characterized by a gradual onset, but irreversible at the same
time, consisting of depression, anxiety, loss of memory, failure of judgment
and calculation, view of the handling of money, unexpected exits of the patient
from his home, repetition of ideas, as well as altered visions of reality and
persecutory thoughts; this series of symptoms are increasingly frequent and
intense, leading the patient to prostration, and being prey to respiratory or
urinary tract infections, but not before altering the mental state of relatives
and caregivers surrounding the patient.
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There
are 40 million Alzheimer’s patients in the world, and it will continue to rise,
due to the investment of the age pyramid, and the expected increase in the
duration and quality of life in people, through the new medical interventions
They are discovering day by day. The drugs are often symptomatic and fail to
effectively stop the clinical picture, often the basis of treatment is the
patient’s previous struggle, is the “store for the winter”; we refer to that we
would face the eventual possibility of this disease through what we do in
previous stages, and more specifically in a healthy lifestyle. A healthy
lifestyle is always to have proper sleep habits, avoid smoking and drinking,
have the habit of reading and always fortify our thoughts with education and
culture, not live situations too stress, care and anticipate our economy with
an adequate pension system and try to belong to a health system that has
adequate coverage for problems of adults of the third age.
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