An aging society is coming, keeping parents away from Alzheimer’s

Some time ago, CCTV's "Hey, Old Man" was a TV series about the story of Alzheimer's patients. According to media reports, the World Alzheimer's Disease 2015 report published by the International Federation of Alzheimer's Diseases said that as the world's population ages, the number of elderly people with mental retardation will multiply. In 2015, there were about 10 million new cases of Alzheimer's disease, and there was an additional case in almost a few seconds. Compared with 2010, almost 30% of new cases were added. By 2050, the number of people with Alzheimer's disease worldwide will increase from the current 47 million to 132 million.

Alzheimer's disease is a chronic progressive neurodegenerative disease. It is rare in patients before the age of 60. The incidence is higher after the age of 60. Women are more common than men. In the early stage, there may be only memory difficulties or mild forgetfulness. Certain social skills, so family members are often difficult to detect, is considered to be the performance of normal elderly, causing obvious symptoms to attract people's attention, often delay diagnosis and treatment.

First, the prevention and treatment of senile dementia is "early", these symptoms are remembered.

Modern medical research has found that in the early stages of senile dementia, the number of cells in the cerebral cortex is reduced, the neurons are partially lost, and the memory is slightly reduced. Top Ten Signs of Alzheimer's Disease:

1. Memory loss: Occasionally forget a date, occasionally forget the name or phone number of a colleague, but can recall it afterwards, these are normal performance. People with dementia are not. If some patients forget what they have just said and done, they will forget to bring them back on the street. They not only forget things, but they can’t remember them afterwards. Even most patients will deny themselves. There are memory impairments, denying that they have affected work and life due to poor memory.

2. Language barriers: Anyone may find it difficult to find the right words to express their meaning. Dementia patients may be serious enough to forget a word but cannot find a suitable word to replace it. As a result, others cannot understand what he expresses. The meaning is that serious people can't even name the commonly used items.

3. Time and space orientation disorder: People with dementia will get lost in places they are familiar with, don't know where they are, don't know how they got there, and don't know how to get home. Some people with dementia don't even know what season it is, nor the year, month, date, etc.

4. Intelligent change: poor computing power, slow thinking, reduced ability of comprehensive analysis, unclear primary and secondary, and even unable to understand basic common sense. People with dementia may completely forget all the numbers, and even face the numbers, and even simple calculations are difficult to complete. The ability to change daily life is not up to the job that is familiar.

5. Poor judgment: easy to put things in the wrong place. Anyone can put the wallet or key in the wrong place, and people with dementia put things in a particularly inappropriate place, such as putting the iron on the refrigerator and putting the watch in the rice bowl.

6. Psychiatric symptoms: As the age increases, the temper of the elderly will change, but the mental behavior of people with dementia changes very significantly, the mood fluctuates rapidly, and sometimes they suddenly cry for no reason, or suddenly become extremely anger. They will become extremely sensitive and suspicious or very scared, or more and more violent, stubborn, and some may have short-lived illusion delusions, such as theft, persecution illusion.

7. Loss of initiative in life and work: Normal people sometimes get bored with household chores, work and social obligations, but after a period of adjustment, they can quickly resume their work initiative. Dementia patients are extremely passive and passive, doing nothing at all, swaying at home without aim.

Second, patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases change their living habits to reduce the risk of disease

The pathogenic factors of Alzheimer's disease are multifaceted. It is currently believed that the relationship between vascular disease and Alzheimer's disease is obvious. In terms of vascular factors, clinically, more than 50% of patients with Alzheimer's disease are accompanied by vascular problems. The study found that the more cardiovascular risk factors, the higher the risk of dementia. Risk factors include hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, and smoking. People with a risk factor have a 27% increased risk of developing dementia, while those with all four risk factors have a 137% increased risk.

To cultivate a healthy and beneficial lifestyle and control chronic physical diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia, the possibility of developing Alzheimer's disease can be minimized.

1. Don't sit at home and watch TV for a long time. You should go out for a walk and stick to exercise. After the elderly retire, they must participate in more interest classes, such as doing some complicated hand-made, learning musical instruments, and writing diaries. Occasionally, you can play bridge and numb the brain's reaction skills. Old people who are alone at home should not sit on the sofa and watch TV all day. Studies have shown that without watching TV for an hour, the probability of suffering from Alzheimer's disease in the future is 1.3 times higher than that of people who do not like watching TV. In addition, when the weather is good in spring and autumn, choose one or two suitable exercise methods according to your own characteristics, such as walking, jogging, playing Tai Chi, doing aerobics, playing gateball, etc., which is beneficial to lowering fat, losing weight and lowering blood pressure. It can promote blood circulation, maintain a good blood supply to the brain, and play a non-negligible role in protecting brain nerve cells.

2, adhere to moxibustion Zusanli, Guanyuan points. Modern medical research proves that moxibustion can adjust the function of viscera, promote new generation, change blood components, increase the number of white and red blood cells, promote the phagocytosis of mononuclear macrophages, and promote antibody formation to enhance the body's defense function. Maintain the physiological balance of the human body and resist the two-way adjustment of disease. Experimental data shows that moxibustion has a positive effect on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular patients. Select Zusanli and Guanyuan points to apply moxibustion to 50 elderly people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Once a day, add moxibustion for seven days at the beginning of each month. Perform blood rheology examination before moxibustion. Check blood flow after continuous moxibustion for 3 months. Varied, the results show that after moxibustion treatment, the patient's whole blood specific viscosity, plasma specific viscosity, red blood cell aggregation index and other indicators have improved significantly.

3, chronic cerebral insufficiency (or chronic cerebral ischemia), adhere to taking serum brain particles. Red blood cells are the main medium through which the body transports oxygen through the blood. In addition to the lack of oxygen caused by the external environment, the lack of blood supply to the brain is also the main cause of anoxia. The long-term cerebral ischemia and hypoxia state directly affects the brain microcirculation, which can cause various pathological manifestations such as atrophy of the cerebral cortex and nerve cell damage, thereby promoting the process of neurodegenerative reaction and accelerating the early development of dementia. So it is very important to ensure the good state of the brain circulation. The serum-reinforcing brain granules produced by Tasly Holding Group have the curative effect of nourishing blood and calming the liver and promoting blood circulation. From the perspective of modern pharmacology, it has dilated cerebral blood vessels, inhibits platelet aggregation, lowers blood viscosity, improves red blood cell function, increases blood supply and oxygen supply to the brain, can effectively improve brain blood flow velocity and microcirculation, and improve brain resistance. Hypoxia ability is a traditional Chinese medicine for treating dizziness, headache, tinnitus, insomnia, memory loss and other symptoms.

4, insist on drinking a cup of green tea every day. Green tea has anti-radiation and cholesterol lowering effects. According to the latest issue of the Journal of Clinical Nutrition in the United States, a Japanese study found that two to three cups of green tea per day, the chance of suffering from Alzheimer's disease can be reduced by about half. Researchers have pointed out that green tea has anti-radiation and cholesterol-lowering effects, which has long been known. This new study specifically surveyed the cognitive situation of the elderly over 70 years old. It turned out that 70% said they drink at least two to three cups of green tea a day. Among these people, the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease is the lowest. On the contrary, among those who drink a cup a day, or do not drink green tea at all, there are more people suffering from Alzheimer's disease, which is about half more than the former.

The catechin in green tea is the main component of tea polyphenols in green tea. It is also an important antioxidant substance, which can eliminate harmful free radicals in the human body and thus has a strong effect on preventing and improving the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. More importantly, tea polyphenols are water-soluble substances with strong diffusion ability. Therefore, the catechins can smoothly pass through the human physiological barrier to the central nervous system and other organs of the body, which enhances its prevention of Alzheimer's disease.

As children, the only thing we can do for our parents is to learn the most correct and effective methods through continuous learning, and tell our parents what to pay attention to in their daily life so that they can stay away from the pain and stay away from Alzheimer. disease.