What symptom can brain atrophy cause?

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Brain atrophy is a kind of neuropsychiatric disease caused by a variety of reasons. Brain atrophy includes infantile brain atrophy and adult brain atrophy. The disease usually occurs in patients over 50 years old, with a course of several years to several decades. Male patients are more than female patients. Brain atrophy includes diffuse brain atrophy (including cortical atrophy, cerebellar atrophy and cortical, cerebellar and brainstem atrophy) and localized brain atrophy (mostly after localized brain organic lesions, such as trauma, vascular disease, intracranial localized infection, etc.). What symptom can brain atrophy cause? Let's talk about it

What symptom can brain atrophy cause?

Patients often have dizziness and headache, insomnia and dreaminess, waist and knee soreness, numbness of hands and feet, tinnitus and deafness; Gradually to slow reaction, slow movement, murmur, answer the wrong question. In the physical aspect, it is often manifested as aging, white teeth, dry skin, hyperpigmentation, or even hemiplegia, epilepsy, or ataxia, tremor, etc. neurological symptoms may exist or may be absent.

Personality change is often the early symptom of the disease, patients become left behind, do not like to communicate with others, or show no ideal, desire, lack of feelings for their children and relatives; The life habit is rigid and strange, the character is impatient, the speech increases, or wordy repetition; Or suspicious and selfish, pay special attention to their own health and safety, often entangled by some minor discomfort.

The ability of understanding, judgment, calculation and other intellectual activities declined in an all-round way, unable to adapt to social life and work and housework; Gradually, they can't answer their name, age and food correctly. They don't know their hunger and satiety, and they don't know their way home after going out. Collecting waste paper and sundries is regarded as a treasure. At the later stage of the disease, he was bedridden all day, unable to take care of himself, not being intimate with others, incontinent in urination and defecation, vague in speech, unclear in speech, disorderly in speech, and finally complete dementia.

matters needing attention

Light diet, unobstructed defecation and constipation are one of the most common causes of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular emergencies, and cerebrovascular accidents are the most direct and serious damage to brain tissue. Therefore, director Du believes that it is very important for middle-aged and elderly people to keep unobstructed defecation. Usually can eat more fruits and vegetables, light diet, constipation can be heavy with drinking some intestinal tea, Senna.