Contents:
- Medical Video: How Do You Know If You Have Alzheimer Disease
- What is Alzheimer's?
- Alzheimer's symptoms that you need to know
- 1. Memory loss
- 2. Difficulty learning new things and planning something
- 3. Communication difficulties
- 4. Vision problems
- 5. Change the mood(mood swing)
Medical Video: How Do You Know If You Have Alzheimer Disease
Have you ever felt that you often forget something? Or, have you ever had difficulty remembering someone's name? Occasional senility is natural as you age and is usually not a serious memory problem. However, if senility inhibits daily activity, you should suspect it as a symptom of Alzheimer's.
What is Alzheimer's?
Alzheimer's disease is a condition of memory loss characterized by a decrease in the ability to think and speak, and a change in behavior, due to a disturbance in the brain. This disease is a death syndrome of brain cells at almost the same time so that the brain appears to shrink and shrink. Dead brain nerve cells cause the signal to be difficult to be transmitted properly.
Some factors that can increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease include unhealthy lifestyles, over 65 years of age, having an Alzheimer's family history, having a history of heart disease, and having suffered severe head injuries. But unfortunately, not everyone knows what signs of Alzheimer's disease are. In fact, when you find out earlier, it will be easier to prevent it.
Alzheimer's symptoms that you need to know
Here are five symptoms of Alzheimer's that you need to watch out for, including:
1. Memory loss
The most common Alzheimer's Gejalage is memory loss, such as forgetting information that has just been learned or forgetting important dates.
The brain has 100 billion nerve cells (neurons) where each nerve cell is interconnected to form a communication network. These cells have special jobs, some of which are involved in thinking, learning and remembering. Others help us see, hear, and smell. To do the work, brain cells operate like a small factory. They receive stimulation, produce energy, and dispose of waste. Cells also process and store information and communicate with other cells. These cells coordinate with each other to keep things running properly.
If there is interference with the 'small factory', it will disrupt the cell's working system so that damage occurs. The damage can spread, so as a result the cells will lose the ability to do their work, eventually die, and cause irreversible changes in the brain.
2. Difficulty learning new things and planning something
Memory loss is the initial phase of Alzheimer's disease. And over time, this phase will develop, causing sufferers to experience difficulties in planning, working with numbers, until they have difficulty concentrating and taking longer to do things they often do before.
Just like your body, the brain also changes with age. However, if the brain has a disorder, for example due to Alzheimer's disease, then you will have difficulty remembering the information that has just been studied because changes in Alzheimer's usually begin in parts of the brain that affect the learning process. In fact, Alzheimer's sufferers can forget the date, season, or time.
3. Communication difficulties
Another symptom of Alzheimer's is difficulty communicating or talking. You might stop in the middle of a conversation because you don't know how to continue the conversation or maybe say the word repeatedly. For Alzheimer's sufferers, saying vocabulary can be very troublesome because they often have difficulty finding the right vocabulary.
4. Vision problems
Vision problems can be a sign of Alzheimer's disease. This makes Alzheimer's patients difficult to read, measure distance, determine color or distinguish contrast.
5. Change the mood(mood swing)
One sign of Alzheimer's sufferers is the emergence of feelings of anxiety, fear, or anxiety.
If you feel the symptoms of Alzheimer's above, try going to the doctor to get an accurate diagnosis. So if you are properly diagnosed with Alzheimer's, doctors can start designing treatment plans as early as possible. Or, you can still make prevention efforts so you don't suffer from Alzheimer's disease, including eating foods rich in antioxidants, not consuming excess fat food, exercising regularly, and reducing sugar intake.
