What are the initial manifestations of Alzheimer's

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When it comes to Alzheimer's, most people know that it's a common disease among older people. This not only brought great pain to the patients, but also brought a huge psychological blow to their families. Therefore, we should understand the early warning signs of Alzheimer's disease and be vigilant to save the quality of life of the elderly. Now, let's take a look at the initial manifestations of Alzheimer's?

Alzheimer's disease has the following clinical manifestations in the early stage

(1) Memory impairment    The initial symptom of Alzheimer's disease is memory loss. It is mainly manifested in the forgetting of recent memory, such as: telling him a thing several times and immediately forgetting it, turning around and forgetting where it is, when cooking, you have put salt for a while and then put it again, just now. I forgot to take the things I bought and left myself. When I was introduced to a friend who I just met, when I met again, I forgot the name of my friend and there was an embarrassing scene. On the other hand, the memory of the events that have a deep impression on the past, such as the wars that have been experienced in the past, some major events and political activities that have participated in, and lost relatives, is better, which is what we call long-term memory. better. However, with the development of the disease, the long-term memory will gradually decline, and even symptoms such as misconstruction, fiction and delusion appear. For example, what happened in the past is said to be the present or just happened, and several unrelated things are linked together, Zhang Guan Li Dai, and the surname Zhang is said to be done by luggage, and sometimes it is even given to others from scratch. Telling a story about something that never happened. When the memory impairment is the most severe, the patient does not know his relatives, not even the self in the mirror or photo.

(2) Gradual loss of orientation of time and place. The patient cannot distinguish between time and place. This is not because of a problem with the patient's consciousness, but because of his cognitive ability, which is a manifestation of his mental decline. For example, the patient does not know what year, month, and day it is today, whether it is morning or afternoon, does not know where he is, and cannot find his way home when he leaves the house.

(3) Impairment of numeracy Decreased numeracy is also an aspect of cognitive decline. Lighter performance is that the calculation speed is significantly slower, complex calculations cannot be completed, or obvious errors often occur; when the performance is severe, even simple addition and subtraction calculations cannot be performed, and even the response to numbers is completely lost.

(4) The decline in comprehension and judgment is manifested in the inability to correctly understand the surrounding things, which directly affects the reasoning and judgment of things, and cannot distinguish between primary and secondary, essential or non-essential things, so it cannot be Deal with the problem correctly.

(5) Language Barrier: In mild cases, the content is repetitive and disorganized; in severe cases, the answer is not what was asked, and the content is incomprehensible;

(6) Thinking and affective disorder :    The thinking is often fragmented, major events are ignored, trivial matters are entangled, accompanied by emotional retardation, indifference to people, and gradually develops into complete daze and expressionless, or child-like euphoria symptoms are prominent . Some have hallucinations , such as auditory hallucinations , hallucinations, etc.; some have fragmented delusions, such as delusions of envy, delusions of being stolen, and delusions of exaggeration.

(7) Personality and personality changes    are mostly selfish, subjective, or irritable, irrational, or anxious and suspicious . There are also some people who are withdrawn, self-centered, not interested in things around them, lacking enthusiasm, and they are completely different from those before the disease.

(8) Behavioral disorders Early manifestations are behavioral disorders dominated by forgetting, such as forgetting things, losing things, getting lost, etc. In the mid-term, it is mostly manifested as abnormal behaviors related to thinking and judgment disorders and personality changes, such as wandering around day and night, making noises; They do not distinguish between filth and cleanliness, and even play with defecation; they do not know superiority and inferiority, regardless of gender, and even tend to have hypersexuality .

(9) Mobility disorder Slow movement, unsteady walking, hemiplegia , even bedridden , incontinence , inability to eat when unable to move, and eventually death.