The Way to Detect Alzheimer's Disease Earlier

Don’t underestimate if you are suffered from memory lost problem because it leads you to Alzheimer’s disease. It seems that the symptoms come slowly and without treatment, the symptoms will be worst. Let’s learn a little bit about this disease so you can aware with the symptoms.

The Importance of Knowing the Symptoms of Alzheimer’s

For your information, Alzheimer’s disease commonly attacked elderly around 65 years old or more. But it is also possible attacked younger generation. The youngest Alzheimer’s sufferer is 29 years old. This disease is known as progressive disease. Progressive disease means that it starts from mild symptoms and it increases into severe symptoms. In mild symptoms, you will suffer from memory lost such as forget about the name of your family or where you save important items, and many more. In the severe symptoms, you will be difficult to communicate and give responds to surrounding. Although, it is only memory lost disease, but there is a shocking fact about this disease. Just imagine! Alzheimer's becomes the sixth leading cause of death in United States. The survival period of time is various and it depends on your age and your health condition.

Mild and Severe Alzheimer’s Symptoms

As explained above, Alzheimer's is strongly related to the ability of your brain and memory. So, if you are suffered from this disease, there will be a problem with your brain and memory. In mild symptoms, you will be difficult to remember where you keep your important things. Moreover, you start to forget the name of your family and friends even which have close relationship with you such as your wife, husband, son, daughter and many more. In severe symptoms, your memory condition will be worse than what mentioned above. In this case, you will be easily confused and suffered from slow thinking condition. Even, you are having difficulty in remembering new information given to you after a few minutes. Without any proper treatment, this disease leads you to walking, swallowing, and talking difficulties. The problem is that the sufferer doesn’t realize if they have a memory lost problem and it getting worst day by day. It becomes the duty of their closest family to take care of Alzheimer’s sufferer.

Alzheimer’s Early Detection

If you see that your friend and family are suffered from Alzheimer's, it is better to bring them to the doctor as soon as possible. Later, the doctor will make early diagnosis to determine whether their patient is really suffered from Alzheimer's or not. If it is so, the doctor will determine the level of Alzheimer's suffered by their patient. Biomarker is used for the earlier detection so the doctor can make sure whether you are suffered from Alzheimer's or not. This method is used because the result is accurate. Biomarker is still developed so it can really accurately to detect the present of Alzheimer's. Several methods can also used to detect the present of Alzheimer's. Those are including brain imagining, cerebrospinal fluid proteins, MCI, and may more. So, they key to fight against Alzheimer’s disease is taking the sufferer to the expert and let them take specific treatment based on the level of their Alzheimer's.