Principles of preventing and treating dementia with love and friendship

In the face of dementia patients, family members often feel powerless and even feel that they are people from different worlds. In fact, family members and patients can still create many common new memories by grasping the golden treatment period and cooperating with drugs and occupational therapy. "A 76-year-old man woke up at three o'clock in the middle of the night and went to work in the Ministry of Finance in a suit. This move frightened his wife, but it was a typical case of "cognitive dysfunction". Dr. Liu Yiqian, from the Department of Neurology, Catholic Gengshen Hospital, cited this example to illustrate that many family members of Alzheimer's patients often realize that their elders have dementia because their family members are lost or have serious cognitive errors. Three principles to prevent dementia Many people mistakenly think that they forget things when they are old. In fact, dementia is an abnormal aging phenomenon. At the age of 65, the incidence of dementia is about 5-0/0%. Its accompanying complications are often the cause of death of patients; The most common thing is that after taking drugs, the elderly who are in a trance are prone to fall, and it is difficult to recover after falling, leading to bed rest. After bed rest, muscle function will gradually deteriorate, which will affect the function of other organs. Because mild dementia is difficult to detect, it is usually the patient's severe insomnia that interferes with the sleep of other family members before being taken to the hospital for examination. Therefore, most patients with dementia in China have entered the pathological stage of clinical treatment, so Dr. Liu especially called for three principles to prevent dementia: Mediterranean diet, exercise and brain gymnastics (memory training). Among them, the Mediterranean diet can reduce the incidence of vascular dementia, emphasizing "happy meals, less oil, less salt, more fruits and vegetables" and avoiding foods containing saturated fatty acids, such as beef. Today's medical research also points out that having exercise habits can reduce the incidence of dementia by 50%. According to medical reports, the brain will begin to degenerate around the age of 30, but the utilization rate of the brain in a person's life is only 10%. Even if the brain degenerates, there is still a physiological compensation mechanism to make up for the missing function, so it is more important to protect the brain when you are young or middle-aged. In the golden period of treatment, don't miss Dr. Liu's previous experience: "The most difficult part of clinical treatment of dementia is often not the pathological problem, but the communication of family members. It is often difficult for family members to accept the fact that patients are ill. The acceptance period is almost half a year, but the important golden treatment period is easy to miss. If the family members accept the fact that they are sick, how can they cooperate with the doctor next? Dr. Liu said: "What we hope most is that the family members can tell the truth about the illness, so that the medical team can have more basis for judging the illness and using drugs. Because family members sometimes care about face, when dementia patients appear abnormal, like * * * clothes walking around the house, some family members will find it difficult to talk about it, so it is difficult for doctors to prescribe the right medicine. Dr. Liu doesn't want his family to help him find the cause of his illness. He doesn't think it will help the course of treatment. Because from the doctor's point of view, the later the treatment, the shorter the time the patient can recognize his family.