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Is it Alzheimer's disease?
People often wonder whether the deterioration of their relatives' memory is related only to age and natural processes connected with aging or if they are affected by dreaded Alzheimer's disease. Initially natural aging and Alzheimer's have similar symptoms. Differences can be noticed later on.
How to distinguish aging-related memory disorders and Alzheimer's disease?
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Aging-related memory deterioration
Forgetting some events from the immediate past.
Past events are recalled after some time.
A person uses notes which help him or her remember.
A person easily follows spoken or written instructions.
A person retains the ability to look after him- or herself in terms of hygiene or eating and he or she is relatively self-reliant.
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Alzheimer's disease
A patient forgets all the events from his or her immediate past.
Events which are forgotten are rarely recalled.
A patient has trouble using notes and the inability intensifies.
A patient has growing difficulty following instructions.
A patient is not self reliant and loses the capability of looking after him- or herself.
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An early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is very important because the sooner medications are used the more time of self-reliance and survival a patient will have. Alzheimer's disease is difficult to treat, but there are medications which hamper its development. Synthetic drugs, donepezil and its derivatives, have been confirmed to produce therapeutic results.
Among herbs Ginkgo biloba is considered to bring positive effects in treating Alzheimer's disease. The Phytotherapy Centre recommends Memobon (an extract from Ginkgo and ginseng), Apibon (an extract from beebread and propolis) and/or Bonimel with beebread and propolis for memory disorders and other symptoms of brain functioning insufficiency. Beebread and propolis combined with honey have been administered to a group of patients suffering from brain functioning disorders following brain artery thrombosis. The group was observed to be recovering faster compared to the group of patients who were treated normally, i.e. without beebread and propolis.
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