Alzheimer’s disease — Causes, symptoms & treatment

Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease is an irrecoverable and self-growing brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking ability and eventually, the capability to carry out the simplest tasks is also gone.

In most Alzheimer’s cases, symptoms are seen from their mid-60s. Alzheimer is a self-growing disease that can totally hamper your thinking ability and mental functions, it can destroy your memory and leave you in despair.

Alzheimer’s occurs when protein starts building up and cause plaque around blood cells, one of such protein type is amyloid. Brain cells start breaking down and lose contact with each other, resulting in loss of all brain functions.

Causes of Alzheimer’s disease

In Alzheimer’s disease, the brain cells start to degenerate and in more unusual forms of Alzheimer’s disease, different areas of the brain are affected. Alzheimer attacks different parts of the brain and shrinks the brain gradually, the parts first attacked are most often responsible for memory.

Following are the common causes of Alzheimer’s disease -

Increased Age -

Old age is the most significant cause of Alzheimer. With increasing age our body starts losing immunity and the power to fight back, leading to the weakening of brain cells and the loss of memory. After the age of 60, the risk of getting affected by Alzheimer’s is increasing.

Genetic variants

Alzheimer can pass on from genes also. In a few cases, Alzheimer is inherited from a single gene passing in the family for very long and affecting all the present and upcoming generations.

Down Syndrome

People affected with down syndrome are at high risk of getting affected by Alzheimer’s disease. Down Syndrome is also passed by genes and it also leads to the formation of amyloid plaque around brain cells, leading to Alzheimer’s at an early age and losing all brain functions and daily routine tasks.

Symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease -

Memory Loss

One of the most common issues with Alzheimer’s is memory loss and can be seen at an early stage and is easy to detect. This symptom can be seen when memory aids are being used more often like reminder notes or reminders on mobile phones. The part of the brain responsible for memory storing functions starts deteriorating and the affected person gradually starts losing memory.

Turbinates Reduction

Turbinates are the small structures present inside the nose that cleanse and humidify the nostrils into the lungs. It is a procedure in which a needle-like is inserted into the turbinates. During the procedure, energy is transmitted to the tissue to cause controlled damage. By the time the healing process occurs, the turbinates get reduced.

Unable to do regular tasks or planning

A person affected with Alzheimer’s gets clumsy and can’t perform general self-care activities. They are unable to focus or concentrate on something they planned earlier. It gets more difficult for them to focus when numbers are involved. They start panic attacks in that situation.

Lack of uncertainty

Alzheimer can make you forget your place where you are or where you have reached, your brain cannot fetch any date or time when you have lost your track. In worst case scenarios you can forget the current event going on or something that happened a few minutes back.

Avoiding social interactions

Social gatherings will start pinching you if you have Alzheimer’s, people with Alzheimer’s will take a step back from all social activities, general habits and will face issues in remembering their favourite sport or activity and the ways to perform these activities.

Sudden mood swings

Unexpected mood changes are common in people with Alzheimer’s, you can experience confusion, fear, depression or anxiety at the same time and always feel discomfort at places that are not in their comfort zones.

Getting low on judgments

Facing difficulty while taking decisions while doing chores and working in regular self-care activities like showering or dressing wrong according to the occasion. Fading of memory can lead to this and you can skip the common daily activities and always need a helping hand to get the problem resolved.

Loss of appetite

People with a severe case of Alzheimer’s will face problems with swallowing and will start losing appetite. It leads to loss of weight and losing thinking ability.

Treatments of Alzheimer’s disease

There is no cure for Alzheimer’s to date, but medication and legit treatment can slow down the damage. Once the symptoms are detected they can be avoided with accurate medication and can be stopped from growing. 

Our experts provide medicines to control several symptoms such as anxiety and depression which can help the patient to think wisely and live a normal life. 

Apart from that, we provide medications to increase appetite and help the patient in swallowing. 

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