Symptoms of mild brain atrophy in the elderly

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When it comes to brain atrophy, many people still think it's a little scary. This is also the reason why people have misunderstood brain atrophy for many years. Brain atrophy can be divided into mild and severe. For early patients, it may be mild brain atrophy. The symptoms of this kind of people are not serious. If we can actively guide them in the early stage and provide corresponding treatment, it is possible to recover, So the symptoms of mild brain atrophy in the elderly, let's first understand.

Symptoms of mild brain atrophy in the elderly

The change of personality and behavior is often the early symptom of the disease. The patient becomes widowed and does not like to communicate with others, or shows no ideal, desire and lack of feelings for their children and relatives; The life habit is rigid and strange, the character is impatient, the speech brain atrophy increases, or wordy repetition; Or suspicious and selfish, pay special attention to their own health and safety, often entangled by some minor discomfort. All patients' high-level emotional activities, such as sense of shame, sense of responsibility, sense of honor and sense of morality, decreased to varying degrees, and their sleep rhythm also changed.

Mental retardation and dementia are characterized by the overall decline of intelligence activities such as understanding, judgment and calculation ability, which are unable to adapt to social life and be competent for work and housework; Gradually, they can't answer their name, age and food correctly. They don't know their hunger and satiety, and they don't know their way home after going out. Collecting waste paper and sundries is regarded as a treasure. In the later stage of the disease, he was bedridden all day, unable to take care of himself, not close to each other, incontinence, vague speech, unclear speech, disorderly speech, and finally complete dementia. 　

In the early stage of systemic symptoms, patients often have dizziness, headache, insomnia, soreness of waist and knees, numbness of hands and feet, tinnitus and deafness; Gradually to slow reaction, slow movement, murmur, answer the wrong question. In the physical aspect, it is often manifested as aging, white teeth, dry skin, hyperpigmentation, or even hemiplegia, epilepsy, or ataxia, tremor, etc. neurological symptoms may exist or may be absent.

matters needing attention

We should pay equal attention to "seeing, listening, speaking and writing" and train the patients. We should study and practice every day, but we should not arrange too much, combine work and rest, and act in haste. Too much and too much practice makes the patients regard language training as a burden and can't get the cooperation of the patients.