Prevent dementia from paying close attention to the health beginning of memory

Prevent dementia from paying close attention to the health beginning of memory
At present, common people have a lot of mistaken ideas to dementia, if " always confused it is not the disease " ," it is hopeless to have disease, needn't go to see " Waiting, the old man has illness coming on, whole family are shy bringing the matter up, go to seek medical advice and so that lose intervening in early days, early and therapeutic chance.
The statistics show, will produce a new dementia patient in 7 seconds if global every. Tomorrow (September 21) It is the dull-witted day of old age of world. The first hospital in Changsha will hold the large-scale activity of volunteering medical consultation in our institute, at the same time, the patient failing to memory free sifts checking dull-wittedly.
Diagnose that intervenes the progress that can delay the condition in early days in early days
In daily life, what danger signals does dementia have? Expert introduce, memory decline day by day, obvious characteristic, such as stir-fry set salt two times free, forget to close the coal gas after finishing meals; Dealing with the thing known well encounters difficulties, it is difficult to be competent at daily house work, does not know the order in clothes, cook the step of the meal; The language expresses and encounters difficulties, forget the simple word, spoken or sentence written would make people unable to understand.
Feel confused to time, place and personage day by day, does not remember what the date the same day is. The judgement fails day by day, for instance, the burning sun plays and wears the cotton-padded jacket, but the thin clothing is worn in severe winter. Comprehension or arranging for the ability of the things to drop rationally, can not catch up with the thinking of talking with others, or can't pay various bills on time. Often place the things on the inappropriate place arbitrarily, such as putting the iron into washing machine.
Mood displays the unstable and behavior to relatively seem unusual, the fast fluctuations of mood, become capricious. The personality is changed, become suspicious, indifferent, anxious or rude, etc. Lose initiative of doing things, wear down time all day, there was not interest to the hobby in the past.
[The expert warns ] to diagnose that intervene the progress that can delay the condition in early days in early days, have benefits to patient and relative. To the patient: Help patients to have sober understanding on development of the condition early; Transmit the information of cause of disease and prognosis; Offer a chance to discuss the question and arrange in the future; Help them to seek resources and treat more actively.
To relatives: The persons who help to care for early make good preparations for psychology attended to; Help them to look for and help early; Offer a discussion prognosis and chance to arrange life and work.
Getting dull-witted old age have differences while being getting forgetful while being ordinary
Senile dementia patient, can not remember the thing happening, can not remember even through the repeated warning. And ordinary the forgetful one, just forget some part of the thing, will remember when reminding by the person.
The senile dementia patient loses the ability to discern surrounding environment, does not know where, will lose the self-care ability of life gradually, not worried at all, thinking becomes more and more obtuse, the language is poorer and poorer, lacking in a sense of humour. And the generally forgetful one, has not reduced the time, place, personage's relation and cognitive ability of the surrounding environment at all, daily life can take care of oneself, drop to memory quite worried, for being unlikely to cause delay, often write a memorandum.

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