Alzheimers
Guide
What is Alzheimers?
The picture shows what a healthy neuron looks like and what a dying neuron looks like. A neuron is a nerve cell in your body.
This picture shows you the difference between a healthy brain vs an advanced Alzheimers brain.
This picture shows what the neurons in a healthy brain look like and what the neurons look like in a brain with Alzheimer's.
Symptoms
- Memory Loss
-Difficulty doing familiar tasks
- Problems with language
-Confusion about place and time
-Poor judgment
-Problems with thinking
-Misplacing this
-Changes in mood or behavior
-Changes in personality
-Loss of desire to do things
-Loss of the ability to remember who people are
Treatmet
There are several medications you can take for Alzheimer's such as
-Namenda
-Namenda XR
-Namzaric
-Donepezil Hydrochloride (ARICEPT)
-Rivastigmine (EXELON)
-Galantine Hydrobromide
Life Expectancy
Statistics show most people diagnosed with Alzheimer's live from 8-10 years during these years people with Alzheimer's will likely get a illness called pneumonia.
What is Pneumonia?
Pneumonia is a infection that inflames the air sacs in your lungs which could fill with fluid. Pneumonia can cause chest pain, difficulty breathing, shaking chills, excessive sweating, and your nails could turn blue from lack of oxygen.
The picture below shows your lungs and a normal alveoli and a alveoli with pneumonia.
Can I prevent this disoreder?
Diagnostic Tests
Computed Tomography (CT): It uses a computer x-rays to look inside your brain
Magnetic Resonance Maging (MRI): takes an image of the body
PET: takes a 3d image of the body