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Day: October 26, 2013
Dementia Diagnosis and Cure
Dementia is basically a mental illness, which affects the individual’s cognitive behavior. Dementia can be diagnosed through various patterns. It can be diagnosed through “Cognitive Testing”, which is basically a test of 15-20 minutes to check mental capability of valid reasoning. Further there is a test referred as “Laboratory Test”, this includes few blood tests from laboratory, most importantly this test check Vitamin and Folic Acid to find out abnormalities in blood. One another methodology is “CT scan or MRI”, which can perfectly diagnose the disease like Alzheimer’s, which later on leads towards Dementia.
If Dementia is caused by any of the disease, then it is quite difficult to cure because most of the time its progressive in nature but if its caused by some natural deficiency or any hormonal disorder, which definitely can be diagnosed and treated in well manner. Diseases like Brain Tumor or excessive brain fluid, surgery is the best possible solution.
Neurodegenerative Dementia can be cured by lowering your blood pressure by use of pure fruit juices, lowering cholesterol level and diabetes 1 along with “No More Smoking” caution. There can be different medication to treat Alzheimer’s but this can’t be diminished at all, while its symptoms can be lower down to the maximum extent.
Normally, people suffering from Dementia also have “Depression” most commonly but there are several ways to treat Depression, the most effective treatment for Depression is extra care and support for the patient, share happiness and try to make the individual feel happy all the time. This will definitely help the individual to lower Dementia effects.
Dementia: Causes and Symptoms
There are several reasons of Dementia to become so common these days in our society. It’s basically a mental situation, which we face now days due to tough routine and busy life. This is the situation, which leads an individual towards mental sickness. Dementia is basically a deficiency, which affects human capabilities to think, learn and make decision over a period of time and it gets very difficult for that person to perform his routine activities. There are many reasons, which lead an individual towards mental illness; this may include stress on the job, heavy dosage medication and usage of drugs/alcohol.
Dementia is not basically a disease itself; rather it’s a combination of symptoms that may be related to reduce the capabilities to think. There is one most common disease, which causes Dementia in Human Beings called Alzheimer’s disease. There is another type of Dementia, which is referred as “Vascular Dementia”, this type of dementia occurs after a severe stroke.
There are few other reasons, which lead towards Dementia; if an individual had a severe brain injury and if this injury cause temporary reduction in the flow of blood or oxygen towards the brain. Depression, agitation and aggression are also one of the reasons, which cause Dementia among individuals. There are many symptoms of Dementia, which act as indications to take preventive measures on time. These symptoms include Loss of memory, Feeling difficulty while communicating and Learning, perception disabilities and anxiety.
Dementia may get into the worse conditions if not cured properly and timely as well, so it is too important to treat this on time, so that you or your loved ones stay safe.
Dementia, A Cognitive Disorder
Dementia is a situation, which takes place because of mental disorders. The individuals, who suffer from Dementia, face difficulties in their cognitive processes. They may find it difficult to recognize someone, planning and recalling some important information. If Dementia moves towards its severity, it may cause an individual to a memory loss, but the chances of such type of Dementia are too low. Most of the times Dementia is reversible, which means it can be cured through different techniques.
Dementia starts showing its effects, when any disease attacks to that specific part of brain. Researchers have found more than 50 causes for Dementia, but on the top most is Alzheimers disease. If someone is diagnosed with Dementia, then it’s quite necessary to take that person under treatment until he/she makes improvement on the scale.
In the age group of 40, the reason of suffering from Dementia is excessive use of Alcohol and different types of other drugs, which weakens the cognitive capabilities and there are very few chances that any genetic or hereditary disorder lead them to Dementia. While in the age group of 60-65, the chances of inherited disorders are on the higher side, also Alzheimer’s can be one of the causes for Dementia to affect strongly at this stage.
However, most within almost all ranges of age, the most common factor that may cause Dementia, is depression and Dementia is less likely to be caused by Vitamin (B 12) deficiency or any type of chronic infection.