Symptomatic treatment of brain atrophy

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Brain atrophy is a common neuropsychiatric disease, which often occurs in the elderly, causing great damage to the physical and mental health of the elderly. Understanding the symptoms of brain atrophy is helpful to the treatment of brain atrophy. So, what are the symptoms of each stage of brain atrophy? Let's talk about it.

Symptomatic treatment of brain atrophy

Early stage of the disease: Patients with anxiety, depression, paranoia as the main performance state, there will be headache, dizziness, insomnia or drowsiness, obvious amnesia, cerebral artery insufficiency, memory decline and other signs. But at this stage, patients have not yet appeared cognitive dysfunction, CT, MRI can not detect brain atrophy, so it belongs to the early stage of disease, is the best period of prevention and treatment.

Early pathological changes: patients will have long-term headache, dizziness, forgetfulness (such as forgetting what to eat after eating), insomnia, soreness of waist and knees, numbness of hands and feet, frequent urination, urgency of urination. Emotional behavior is obviously abnormal, suspicious, selfish, unskillful, slow and so on.

In the middle stage of the disease, the patient had disorientation (unable to find home, often forgetting the way), slow reaction, wrong answer, self talk, ataxia (unstable standing and walking, leaning forward and backward, unstable balance), cough, enuresis, tremor of hands and feet, and often had hallucinations and delusions.

matters needing attention

Late stage: the patient has obvious dementia, intelligence and physical basic out of control, do not know what his name, how old. Unable to take the initiative to eat, incontinence, bedridden for many years, unable to take care of themselves, must be taken care of by others.