The Symptoms Of Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer's is a slow developing disease, so that at first it is often confused with aging health problems, and people do not take any measures to prevent it. But when it progresses, the problems get more and more obvious and the patient needs to start taking medications for it. The first symptom of Alzheimer's disease is normally mild forgetfulness. People start forgetting recent events or what they have been doing in the recent past. They can start forgetting names of people that they know and others.

Because forgetfulness is often a side effect of the normal aging process, a lot of people don't react fast enough. But it is really important, that the Alzheimer's disease is diagnosed as soon as possible. Because the medications are not able to cure the disease, but can only slow down the processes that are going to happen any way, you need to start taking the medication as soon as possible, so that the final stages of the disease will occur as late as possible.

There are seven warning signs that you should look for. One, asking the same questions again and again, even if the have been answered before. Two, the person repeats the same story again and again and doesn't know that he/she has told this story before. Three, forgetting things that the patient knew how to do before, most obvious at multi-step operations like cooking, repairs or playing cards. Four, losing the ability to balance his or her own checkbook, and all other basic math operations are a hard thing to do.

The patient often gets lost in familiar surroundings like the neighborhood or the shopping mall. They also misplace items that they use at home and leave them at places, where they should not be. They also often do not shower or wash themselves or change their clothes but swear that they have washed themselves and the clothes, or that they do not need to do that. The symptoms get to be very obvious with time when the disease progresses. As stated before, it is crucial that you seek medical aid and medications as soon as possible. If we compare the symptoms of someone with Alzheimer's disease and the normal age-related changes, we see that the Alzheimer's patient would forget entire experiences, that he or she would remember again later, on the other hand the normal aging process would mean that the person would forget only some parts of an experience. Alzheimer's patient at a later stage will be unable to follow directions, no matter if they are written or spoken and will not be able to use notes as reminders for things he has to do. On the other hand a healthy adult person will be able to follow directions and will be able to use it as reminders for things he has to do. At the end stage the patient is not able to perform everyday tasks such as washing himself, cleaning and even eating, though this is normally a process you can do, if you are aging normally.

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