What is Alzheimer’s disease?
The brain disorder, Alzheimer’s disease, was named after a German doctor, Alois Alzheimer, who in 1906 first described the disease. Anyone who has this disease has within their brain a cortical tissue atrophy. With this disease, the brain slowly but progressively degenerates, impairing seriously memory and thinking.
Causes and risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease
There hasn’t been a single cause of this disorder determined yet by experts, even though some risk factors have been identified which influence the chances of one developing it.
Family origin: If someone has developed this disease within your immediate family, chances are you will develop it.
Age: Generally, quite a good number of individuals who have Alzheimer’s disease start from 65 years of age.
Genetic Factor: Some genes have been traced to this disease.
It’s very important to note that possessing any of the risk factors does not mean you must develop Alzheimer’s disease. A combination of factors plays a vital role which may be genetic or environmental. Your doctor stands a better chance of explaining to you your chances of developing it. Some additional risk factors exist.
Being exposed for a long time to electromagnetic fields and harmful chemicals can lead to this disease. Also heart disease and heart surgery can cause the disorder, and so will cancer, depression, and diabetes. Moreover, drinking too much alcohol and caffeine, as well as a long –term battle with cholesterol and high blood pressure are potential risk factors.
Diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease
Examining the deceased brain tissue is the only sure and definite way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. However, your cerebral faculties can still be accessed by your doctor, using other tests and exams to diagnose dementia and exclude other possible conditions. Starting with your medical history, your doctor would like to know the symptoms you feel, medical history of your family, conditions of your health, your medications, your diet and lifestyle, including your drinking habit. Your mental status will be taken with some tests to access your orientation, sense of place and time, long and short-term memory.
Your doctor will also perform some physical examination tests. Through this, information about your blood pressure, temperature, and heart rate will be obtained. Your urine and blood samples will also be collected and tested. A neurological test to rule out other diagnosis like Parkinson’s disease will be performed. And so will brain studies by MRI, your reflexes, speech, tone, be tested. The stages of the tests are:
1: Object Memory Test to document your intellectual capacities.
2: Loss of intellectual capacities has led to disabilities.
3: Doctors obtain history of your ailment from family members, and then perform medical, neurological and psychological tests.
Symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease
The common symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease are the following.
The patient cannot understand spatial order and images.
The patient’s judgment and decision making ability is very poor.
The patient withdraws from events and society.
There is loss of memory.
The patient can’t solve any problems or plan anything
There’s personality and mood swing
The patient can’t remember names of objects or people
Patient loses track of time, date and place
Patient rarely retraces objects once misplaced
Complications of Alzheimer’s disease
The patient may suddenly stop breathing
The patient becomes unreasonably violent
Patient may attempt suicide
Patient experiences emotional and physical abuse
The patient may suffer coronary disease
Patient experiences general poor health
The patient may suffer some infections
Evenings bring withdrawal and agitation
Patient may suffer from loss of water and malnutrition
Precautions and Prevention of Alzheimer’s disease
Patient should regularly work out.
They should consume veggies and fruits.
They should be involved in social activities.
Patients should always try and learn new things
Treating Alzheimer’s disease
No known drug has yet been developed for Alzheimer’s disease. All the doctors do is to recommend for you behavior modifying medications in order to ease your suffering and set back the diseases’ progression. During the early stage of your disorder, your doctor can prescribe such medications as donepezil or rivastigmine in order to aid your memory. Doctors do well to recommend drugs that soothe your depression, anxiety, psyche, agitation, hallucinations and restlessness.
It’s accepted in many quarters that vitamin E can help you. Your family members can set tasks to help your focus, limit your confusion, help you avoid confrontation, help you get sufficient daily rest, and stay calm.
Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Homeopathic Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Homeopathy provides natural cure for this disease. Here the physician understands the patient and their ailments much more deeply, both from the point of view of the symptoms, diagnostic and genetic background. This is because homeopathy caters to the medical need of the patient as a human being in relation with their problem. From this backdrop, appropriate medication is selected for the individual patient. Arnica, Nux M, Alumina, Barayta Carb, and Zinc are a few of the homeopathic medicines for Alzheimer’s disease.
Acupuncture and Acupressure Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Acupressure is a form of massage in which the practitioners utilize their fingers to cause the stimulation of the “acupoints.” This was the observation of Dr Li-Chan Lin of National Yang-Ming University in Taipei. This treatment has the immediate effect of calming the patients’ behavior and starving their aggression and agitation episodes during the period of the four-week treatment.
Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
This technique of treatment helps freshly diagnosed patients handle periods of anger and anxiety caused by this ailment. Psychotherapy helps patients snap out of depression, and improve their outlook and care. Moreover, this therapy helps to stimulate appreciation of art and dance in the patient. •
Dietary and Herbal Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Patients should consume berries and green veggies
Patients should eat many small meals daily.
Patients should eat foods rich in vitamin B12 and D
Patients should keep their distance from processed nourishments
Green teas are healthy to the brain.
Other Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Other treatments for Alzheimer’s disease include yoga. Yoga helps those who have this disorder quite a lot. This exercise has been observed to produce excellent results by restraining and controlling the uneven strains of Alzheimer’s disease and its counterpart, the Parkinson’s disease. The patients are bound to feel better if they should practice all the disciplines received from Yoga, including recovering from stoop.
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Patient's Feedback
For Safe Natural Holistic Treatment, contact or visit:
Ethos Healthcare
Email : contactethos@gmail.com
Phone: +91-11-26164016, 46026700
Mobile / Whatsapp: +91-9810155920
Website:
www.ethosbodyandmindclinic.com
and
www.ethoshealthcare.com
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The brain disorder, Alzheimer’s disease, was named after a German doctor, Alois Alzheimer, who in 1906 first described the disease. Anyone who has this disease has within their brain a cortical tissue atrophy. With this disease, the brain slowly but progressively degenerates, impairing seriously memory and thinking.
Causes and risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease
There hasn’t been a single cause of this disorder determined yet by experts, even though some risk factors have been identified which influence the chances of one developing it.
Family origin: If someone has developed this disease within your immediate family, chances are you will develop it.
Age: Generally, quite a good number of individuals who have Alzheimer’s disease start from 65 years of age.
Genetic Factor: Some genes have been traced to this disease.
It’s very important to note that possessing any of the risk factors does not mean you must develop Alzheimer’s disease. A combination of factors plays a vital role which may be genetic or environmental. Your doctor stands a better chance of explaining to you your chances of developing it. Some additional risk factors exist.
Being exposed for a long time to electromagnetic fields and harmful chemicals can lead to this disease. Also heart disease and heart surgery can cause the disorder, and so will cancer, depression, and diabetes. Moreover, drinking too much alcohol and caffeine, as well as a long –term battle with cholesterol and high blood pressure are potential risk factors.
Diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease
Examining the deceased brain tissue is the only sure and definite way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. However, your cerebral faculties can still be accessed by your doctor, using other tests and exams to diagnose dementia and exclude other possible conditions. Starting with your medical history, your doctor would like to know the symptoms you feel, medical history of your family, conditions of your health, your medications, your diet and lifestyle, including your drinking habit. Your mental status will be taken with some tests to access your orientation, sense of place and time, long and short-term memory.
Your doctor will also perform some physical examination tests. Through this, information about your blood pressure, temperature, and heart rate will be obtained. Your urine and blood samples will also be collected and tested. A neurological test to rule out other diagnosis like Parkinson’s disease will be performed. And so will brain studies by MRI, your reflexes, speech, tone, be tested. The stages of the tests are:
1: Object Memory Test to document your intellectual capacities.
2: Loss of intellectual capacities has led to disabilities.
3: Doctors obtain history of your ailment from family members, and then perform medical, neurological and psychological tests.
Symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease
The common symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease are the following.
The patient cannot understand spatial order and images.
The patient’s judgment and decision making ability is very poor.
The patient withdraws from events and society.
There is loss of memory.
The patient can’t solve any problems or plan anything
There’s personality and mood swing
The patient can’t remember names of objects or people
Patient loses track of time, date and place
Patient rarely retraces objects once misplaced
Complications of Alzheimer’s disease
The patient may suddenly stop breathing
The patient becomes unreasonably violent
Patient may attempt suicide
Patient experiences emotional and physical abuse
The patient may suffer coronary disease
Patient experiences general poor health
The patient may suffer some infections
Evenings bring withdrawal and agitation
Patient may suffer from loss of water and malnutrition
Precautions and Prevention of Alzheimer’s disease
Patient should regularly work out.
They should consume veggies and fruits.
They should be involved in social activities.
Patients should always try and learn new things
Treating Alzheimer’s disease
No known drug has yet been developed for Alzheimer’s disease. All the doctors do is to recommend for you behavior modifying medications in order to ease your suffering and set back the diseases’ progression. During the early stage of your disorder, your doctor can prescribe such medications as donepezil or rivastigmine in order to aid your memory. Doctors do well to recommend drugs that soothe your depression, anxiety, psyche, agitation, hallucinations and restlessness.
It’s accepted in many quarters that vitamin E can help you. Your family members can set tasks to help your focus, limit your confusion, help you avoid confrontation, help you get sufficient daily rest, and stay calm.
Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Homeopathic Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Homeopathy provides natural cure for this disease. Here the physician understands the patient and their ailments much more deeply, both from the point of view of the symptoms, diagnostic and genetic background. This is because homeopathy caters to the medical need of the patient as a human being in relation with their problem. From this backdrop, appropriate medication is selected for the individual patient. Arnica, Nux M, Alumina, Barayta Carb, and Zinc are a few of the homeopathic medicines for Alzheimer’s disease.
Acupuncture and Acupressure Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Acupressure is a form of massage in which the practitioners utilize their fingers to cause the stimulation of the “acupoints.” This was the observation of Dr Li-Chan Lin of National Yang-Ming University in Taipei. This treatment has the immediate effect of calming the patients’ behavior and starving their aggression and agitation episodes during the period of the four-week treatment.
Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
This technique of treatment helps freshly diagnosed patients handle periods of anger and anxiety caused by this ailment. Psychotherapy helps patients snap out of depression, and improve their outlook and care. Moreover, this therapy helps to stimulate appreciation of art and dance in the patient. •
Dietary and Herbal Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Patients should consume berries and green veggies
Patients should eat many small meals daily.
Patients should eat foods rich in vitamin B12 and D
Patients should keep their distance from processed nourishments
Green teas are healthy to the brain.
Other Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
Other treatments for Alzheimer’s disease include yoga. Yoga helps those who have this disorder quite a lot. This exercise has been observed to produce excellent results by restraining and controlling the uneven strains of Alzheimer’s disease and its counterpart, the Parkinson’s disease. The patients are bound to feel better if they should practice all the disciplines received from Yoga, including recovering from stoop.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Patient's Feedback
For Safe Natural Holistic Treatment, contact or visit:
Ethos Healthcare
Email : contactethos@gmail.com
Phone: +91-11-26164016, 46026700
Mobile / Whatsapp: +91-9810155920
Website:
www.ethosbodyandmindclinic.com
and
www.ethoshealthcare.com
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