
I lost my car keys for the fourth time this week, oh my God is this the sign of Alzheimer? I hope not, unless I can't remember how to start a car. I said to myself "don't panic:. I just put it in a simple perspective, Life is jam packed with every day's work, problem and others that pollute my mind sometimes, making it tricky for my overload brain to to access every stored facts on command.The chance of developing it is under the age of 50 is less than1 percent. I'm only 25 years old so as far as I know I'm far from it and I have still some time to enhance my brain and make it as sharp as possible, for me to prevent it. I have posted in the past some natural way to enhance memory in my blog
OK so I might develop Alzheimer's in my golden years, about 10 to 15 percent of people in their 70's do, and the odds rise to about by 50 percent by the time we hit 80 (I don't want to see myself aged 80 whew!). But the good thing is we can decrease the risk of having Alzheimer's, even if the disease is running in your family (good thing my don't have a history of Alzheimer) Some says Aerobic exercise lowers the risk of having Alzheimer's by stimulating blood flow and oxygenating the brain. And I always remember that time is on my side. Although there are drugs on the market that may help slow don or halt Alzheimer progression and there are still some developing meds for Alzheimer. When that happens Alzheimer will become manageable like high blood pressure. But for me natural way is still the key to stop Alzheimer. Living a Natural way can help us do that.
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Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, irreversible disease where the nerve cells die and the brain's function deteriorates. It is normal part of aging. People with the condition gradually lose their memory and encounter growing difficulties with language and emotions.
Symptoms vary. Alzheimer's progress depends on the individual and the affected brain areas. A person's abilities may fluctuate from day to day or even within the day, becoming worse in times of stress and, fatigue, and ill health. The one constant: deterioration over time. The early stages are not immediately obvious and may be dismissed as " a passing phase." The following may be noticed:
- It takes longer to do tasks - The person loses the point of conversation, repeat himself, forget well-known people or places, cannot process questions and instructions, becomes emotionally unpredictable, and slowly loses manual, social, and language skills.
- Persistent and frequent memory difficulties - especially of recent events. These are often associated with personality change such as aggression or obsession, vagueness in every conversation, and apparent loss of enthusiasm for activities or giving up certain activities.
- Te person may be unaware of the severity of his problems - This lack of insight is a part of the disease.
- In more advanced stages, physical symptoms such as weight loss and incontinence may occur.
- Previously well-learned information and skills may be lost: how to dress, eat, walk, and when to sleep.
- New behaviors may happen, such as hallucinations or misinterpretations.
- Low education levels - Some studies show that low education levels can be related to an increased risk for alzheimer, although the reason is not clearly understood.
- Head injury - There is a strong link between seroius head injury and the risk of developing Alzheimer's
- Down syndrome - Having down syndrome or a family history of down syndrome has increased risk for Alzheimer's, although the exact reasons are not known.
- Sex - Women have slightly greater chance of developing Alzheimer's than men, despite women's longer life span. Scientists are studying if hormone replacement therapy can reduce this risk.
- Factors linked to heart disease and stroke - New studies suggest that the risk of developing Alzheimer's increases in conditions that damage the heart and blood vessels. These disease include diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and high cholesterol.
- Family history - Being a first degree relative (child, brother, sister, parent) of someone diagnosed with Alzheimer's increase the risk for developing the disease.
- Increasing Age - People over the age of 65 have one in eight chance of developing Alzheimer. Estimates show that the prevalence of moderate to sever dementia is 5 percent for people 65 to 79, about 16 percent for people 80 t0 84, and over 24percent for people 85 and older. Although Alzheimer's occurs mostly in the 70's and 80's, it can appear in people showing early symptoms of dementia.
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Image via WikipediaMultiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the central nervous system. It is an auto immune disorder, which means the immune system attacks healthy cell and tissues. In the end It disrupts communication between the brain, spinal cord, and the optic nerves. Many investigators believe Multiple Sclerosis to be an autoimmune disease -- one in which the body, through its immune system, launches a defensive attack against its own tissues. In the case of Multiple Sclerosis, it is the nerve-insulating myelin that comes under assault. Such assaults may be linked to an unknown environmental trigger, perhaps a virus. It is twice as likely to develop in women.
Early Signs and Symptoms includes dizziness, fatigue, blurred vision, numbness, tingling, slurred speech and loss of memory. They vary from person to person, and often diminish or improve a few days or weeks. Severe symptoms often lead to debilitation. Those who suffer from Multiple Sclerosis needs a support from a family member or friend tp perform simple tasks.
For proper diagnosis, the patient has to provide a detailed clinical history and go to a neurological exam. There are also additional tests, such as those that measure how fast messages passes from the brain o the nerves.
Signs of clinically definite Multiple Sclerosis : disease in the different parts of the central nervous system and two separate relapses that are at least a month apart. Once diagnosed, a patient has to deal Multiple Sclerosis for life. Though Multiple Sclerosis not an inherited condition, there is two percent chance that the disease will develop in a child of an Multiple Sclerosis parent.
Early diagnosis and long term treatment can bring long lasting benefits. Interferon beta 1-b is a diseases modifying agent that slows down the disease and lessens the gravity of attacks. It usually comes in syringe and injected under the skin.
Epilepsy is a kind of disorder were a person suddenly having a seizure and becomes unconscious for unknown reasons. This is cause by the disorder of electrical activity in the brain of the patient that causes unconsciousness.
The most common kind of epilepsy is the one they called idiopathic epilepsy. Epilepsy symptoms of this kind of describes the abnormality of brain cell activity to a patient for unknown reasons, followed by what they called aura in which the patient looks like hes being electrocuted from hands to toe, it also affects the sense of smell and taste of a person who has epilepsy seizure. The patient also experience convulsion. but sometimes convulsion are cause by tumor in the veins or poison from drug.Some signs of idiopathic epilepsy are headache,dizziness and frequent yawning even though your not sleepy.
Children or adult who has epilepsy, can control the epilepsy by correct medication, drugs like phenytoin and carbamazephine are effective drugs in controlling epilepsy. For the dosage of drugs others try trial for the right dosage of drugs, the dosage decrease if the patient are not experiencing convulsion after two years. Cases of epilepsy are normally cured, but if still coming back try to visit an specialist for epilepsy to have a comprehensive epilepsy program.