Knowing all About Symptoms and Treatment of Dementia

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Knowing all About Symptoms and Treatment of
Dementia
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Dementia is the collective term used for loss of
memory, language, problem solving and other
cognitive abilities that begin to interfere with
a persons daily life routine. While the most
common cause of dementia is Alzheimers disease,
it can also be a result of some injury, HIV or
some brain disorder.
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Patients suffering from dementia begin to lose
their memory, language, problem solving and
various cognitive skills and thinking abilities
that begin to affect their normal life and create
problems for them and the family members
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The patient loses the ability to think, remember
and reason and with the progress of disease even
forgets how to take care of himself without
proper assistance
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The most common symptoms of dementia are memory
loss that soon becomes apparent when patients
fail to recognize family members or people they
meet regularly, find it difficult to communicate
with others as they are at loss for words, face
difficulty with visual and spatial abilities as
they do not know what they were doing or where
they were going
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Symptoms also include inability to handle complex
and sometimes even simple tasks, difficulty in
planning and organization and even facing
problems in coordination and motor functions
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All this leaves the patients confused and
disoriented as they are unable to understand what
is happening with them and they might be agitated
and stressed
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No treatment has been discovered as yet that
could reverse the symptoms of dementia there are
medicines that just control the condition and
slow down the degenerate process
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The doctor might prescribe Cholinesterase
inhibitors and Memantine to manage dementia
symptoms Yardley but they only boost level of
chemical messenger involved in memory, judgment
and learning
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The doctor might also recommend medicines to
control conditions like depression, sleep
disturbance and agitation for dementia treatment
Bucks County in case the patient is too restless