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JIKA Anda merasa cepat lupa pada hal-hal kecil, seperti lupa menepati jadwal kerja dan pertemuan, tidak ingat nama orang atau bahkan lupa meletakkan barang. Anda mengalami gejala demensia atau melemahnya daya ingat.

Akibatnya, Anda akan mengalami degradasi perilaku sosial. Lebih buruk lagi, Anda kehilangan karier dan pekerjaan. Bagaimana cara mengatasinya?

Melemahnya daya ingat atau yang lebih dikenal dengan pikun, merupakan penyakit yang biasa diderita orang lanjut usia. Namun, apa jadinya jika pikun melanda anak muda? Sudah barang tentu Anda tidak menginginkan hal itu. Semua pekerjaan Anda akan berantakan lantaran tidak mampu mengingat hal-hal kecil, seperti lupa meletakkan sesuatu atau lupa menghadiri pertemuan yang sebelumnya sudah dijadwalkan. Celakanya, karier Anda berada di ambang kehancuran apabila lemahnya ingatan mencapai tingkat kronis.

Faktor Penyebab
Menurut dr Tumpal Sp.S, demensia adalah keadaan di mana seseorang mengalami penurunan daya ingat dan daya pikir. Melemahnya kemampuan untuk mengingat dan berpikir menimbulkan gangguan terhadap aktivitas sehari-hari. Bentuk gangguan yang sangat menyolok adalah degradasi perilaku sosial. "Demensia itu terbagi menjadi dua golongan, yaitu demensia yang dapat diobati dan demensia yang tidak dapat diobati," kata dr Tumpal.

Faktor penyebabnya, antara lain, kelupaan. Lupa bisa disebabkan oleh tumor, terutama kelupaan pada usia muda. Selain karena tumor, demensia akut yang dapat menimbulkan gangguan psikologis dan perilaku disebabkan oleh perubahan zat-zat kimia di otak, pengerutan volume otak akibat kerusakan pasien pra morbid dan ketahanan pasien terhadap perubahan hidup yang terjadi dan faktor lingkungan.

Gejala-gejala
Menurunnya daya ingat adalah gejala umum dari demensia. Pada kondisi normal, orang kadang-kadang lupa meletakkan sesuatu. Namun tidak lama kemudian orang dapat menemukannya kembali tanpa respon yang berlebihan. Namun pada penderita demensia, penyakit lupa menjadi bagian keseharian yang tidak bisa lepas. Ketika seorang penderita demensia kehilangan sesuatu, respon yang pertama kali muncul adalah panik yang sangat berlebihan, menyelahkan orang lain dengan mengatakan bahwa orang itu telah mengambilnya atau memindahkan barang tersebut. Ketika benda-benda yang dicari ditemukan, mungkin saja respon yang muncul berikutnya adalah tidak mengerti apa kegunaan barang-barang yang mereka cari tadi.

Penderita demensia pada usia muda dan masih aktif bekerja seringkali melakukan kesalahan dalam menepati jadwal kerja. Sekalipun tertulis dalam agenda, mereka dapat saja tidak hadir pada sebuah rapat karena lupa pada jadwal tersebut. Hal ini juga dapat memengaruhi performa kerja dan bisa menjadi bahan tertawaan orang sekantor. Gangguan orientasi waktu dan tempat seringkali dialami oleh penderita demensia. Penderita demensia pada usia muda merasa masih mampu melakukan segala hal. Didukung fisik yang kuat, mereka seringkali tidak menghiraukan gejala demensia ini.

Kasus lain adalah mengemudi mobil. Orang-orang muda sudah mengendarai mobil bertahun-tahun dan tidak pernah mengalami kecelakaan. Tetapi ketika demensia menyerang, mereka dapat dengan tiba-tiba lupa ke mana mereka akan pergi dan sedang berada di mana saat itu. Kadang-kadang mereka tersesat di jalan yang setiap hari mereka lalui, Hal ini tentu sangat berbahaya, mengingat mereka sedang mengemudi mobil di jalan raya yang ramai.

Ekspresi yang berlebihan ditujukan oleh penderita demensia. Mereka akan menangis berlebihan ketika melihat sebuah drama televisi. Begitu pula ketika melakukan kesalahan kecil, si penderita tidak bisa mengerti mengapa mempunyai perasaan takut dan gugup yang tidak jelas.

Memang berat apa yang dialami oleh penderita demensia, terutama pada usia yang masih muda dan produktif untuk bekerja. Perjalanan penyakit ini sangatlah lambat dan kadang tidak dirasakan baik oleh penderita maupun orang-orang di sekitarnya. Dampak demensia tidak hanya dirasakan penderita, keluarga dan orang terdekat akan merasakannya. Berat rasanya untuk menerima kenyataan bahwa kita atau orang yang kita kenal dan kita sayangi terkena penyakit ini.

Pengobatan
Demensia, jika tidak benar penanggulangannya, bisa mengakibatkan infeksi. Bahaya infeksi disebabkan oleh penyakit yang menyertainya seperti, radang paru-paru atau karena makanan dan gizi yang tidak benar. Sampai saat ini, penyakit demensia belum dapat disembuhkan. Pengobatan dan perawatan yang dilakukan bertujuan untuk mengurangi tanda dan gejala, serta mengoptimalkan kemampuan yang masih dimiliki. Dengan demikian, laju kerusakan otak yang dialami penderita demensia dapat dihambat.

Hal yang dapat dilakukan untuk menurunkan risiko terjadinya demensia, antara lain, dengan menjaga ketajaman daya ingat dan senantiasa mengoptimalkan fungsi otak. Secara teknis, dua hal di atas dapat dilakukan dengan mencegah masuknya zat-zat yang dapat merusak sel-sel otak seperti alkohol dan zat adiktif yang berlebihan ke dalam sistem tubuh.

Mengoptimalkan fungsi otak dengan membaca buku yang merangsang otak untuk berpikir hendaknya dilakukan setiap hari. Berdasarkan sejumlah penelitian, diketahui bahwa dimensia seringkali terjadi pada orang usia lanjut yang telah berumur kurang lebih 60 tahun. Dimensia tersebut dapat dibagi menjadi dua kategori, yaitu dimensia senilis dan demensia pra senilis. Sekitar 56,8 persen lansia mengalami demensia dalam bentuk demensia alzheimer (4 persen dialami lansia yang telah berusia 75 tahun, 16 persen pada usia 85 tahun, dan 32 persen pada usia 90 tahun). Sampai saat ini diperkirakan 30 juta penduduk dunia mengalami demensia dengan berbagai sebab.

"Pengobatan yang lebih baik itu tergantung penyebabnya. Kalau kurang vitamin, ya dikasih vitamin. Kalau karena teroid yang rendah, ya dikasih hormon teroid. Demensia alzheimer harus dilihat lebih lanjut," jelas dr Tumpal lagi.

Selain pengobatan secara medis, pengobatan secara tradisional bisa dilakukan. Mengkonsumsi dua cangkir green tea per hari dapat mengurangi risiko terjadinya demensia. Telah terbukti bahwa mereka yang mengkonsumsi lebih dari dua cangkir green tea per hari mengalami risiko kerusakan kognitif 50 persen lebih rendah dibandingkan dengan mereka yang mengkonsumsi kurang dari dua cangkir green tea per minggu.

Sementara hubungan antara konsumsi black tea, oolong tea, serta kopi terhadap kerusakan kognitif pada jaringan otak sangat lemah atau tidak ada sama sekali. Zat polifenol dalam greean tea, khususnya EGCG, ternyata berperan untuk memperbaiki kerusakan kognitif. Green tea mengandung 67,5 mg katekin dalam 100 ml, sedangkan black tea hanya mengandung 15,5 mg dalam 100 ml.

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A few days ago I was discussing about the disease's memory. Among others, Alzheimer, Amnesia and Delirium, but what is the difference between the disease, let's see together.

Demensia condition is undoing the progressive intellectual ability after reaching the highest growth & development (age 15 years) because of organic brain disturbance, followed by collapse behavior and personality, in the form of interference in manifest cognitive functions such as memory, orientation, sense of heart and the formation of conceptual thought. Usually this condition does not reversibel, rather progressive. Diagnosis carried out with clinical examination, examination laboratorlum and view (imaging), are intended to explore the causes of which can be treated. Treatment is usually only suportif. Substance kolines feel resistor (Cholinesterase inhibitors) can improve cognitive function for a while, and make some drugs more effective than with only one kind of medicine only.

Demensia can occur at any age, but more on the elderly (lk 5% for the age range 65-74 years and 40% for those aged> 85 years). Most of them treated in the house and occupy some 50% of the bed.

Are there other diseases related to memory besides amnesia and Alzheimer? the answer is yes. Delirium is the answer, in the delirium, memory disturbances appear as psychological factors as well, such as worries / fears that excessive (usually associated with the medicine/zat forbidden), and can also be caused by cognitive, but the difference is really clear with the amnesia is a delirium, the delirium of an interruption occurs and changes kognisi (but not to the memory disturbance), occurred in a short period of time (usually in a matter of hours to days) and tends to fluctuate (and appear lost).Delirium can occur in any age, but often at the age of information. At least 10% of elderly patients in treated suffering delirium; 15-50% experience delirium during the moment of hospital care. Delirium is often found at the orphanage. When delirium occurs usually in young people because the use of drugs or dangerous disease that threatens life.

Amnesia (from Greek Ἀμνησία) is a condition of declining resources remember. Causes of amnesia can be either organic or functional. The causes of organic brain damage can be, due to trauma or disease, or the use of drugs (usually a sedatif). The cause is a functional psychological factors, such as ego defense mechanism. Amnesia can also occur spontaneously, as occurs in transient global amnesia. This global type of amnesia common starting age until the mid-old age, especially in men, and usually lasts less than 24 hours.

Impact of amnesia is the inability to imagine the future. Research published in the last network in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the amnesia with damage to the hippocampus can not imagine the future. This is because when a normal imagine the future, they use past experience to describe the scenarios that may face. For example, someone who tried to imagine what will happen in the party who want to become the target of the party will use previous experience to help describe the events in the future.

may be from one of our beloved relatives suffering from this disease, how can we treat them. following tips for our beloved people.
Here are some tips that can be followed when a family member suffering from Alzheimer's Disease:

1. Make a small note, to help him remember. Notes can be a scheduled activity, a list of important phone numbers, or can I also call.

2. Create a calm atmosphere. Avoid the rumbling, people huddle atmosphere or in a hurry.

3. Avoid forcing the patient to remember things or do things that are difficult because the patient will become anxious and even aggravate the situation.

4. Try to communicate more often. Communication is not only speaking but also with the hand touching the shoulder or to help patients focus attention.

5. Make a ritual at night. Behavior of Alzheimer's Disease patients usually worsen at night. Therefore, make the atmosphere of a peaceful sleep and comfort. Shrink television voice vote and avoid loud. Leave the lights remain on to prevent disorientation. Patients should not sleep day and limit the consumption of tea or coffee.

6. Create a safe environment. Patient rooms should be on the ground floor to avoid falling. Keep sharp objects or substances, harmful substances.

7. Engage the patient walking in the afternoon. One of the symptoms that are often found in Alzheimer's Disease patients is often? Keluyuran? (wandering). One of the reasons for their keluyuran usually trivial, they forget the way to the bathroom. Experts argued, to invite the patient walking in the afternoon to help reduce this occurrence. To prevent the patient lost, bekali road map with the patient home, the phone number and identification.

I hope we can help each other.

As many people say, prevent is better than treat ... Mmh following tips seem to reference so we can prevent Alzheimer bro....

Scientists successfully detect several causes of Alzheimer risk factors, are : age more than 65 years, the descendants of factors, which environment contamination with heavy metals, cigarettes, pesticides, elektromagnetic waves, history of serious head trauma and the use of hormone therapy on women.

By knowing the risk factors above and the other results of research, suggested several ways to prevent Alzheimer's Disease, among which are:

1. Healthy life style, such as with regular exercise, not smoking and consume alcohol.

2. Consume fresh vegetables and fruit. This is important because fresh fruit and vegetables contain antioxidants that act to bind free radicals. Free radicals that damage body cells.

3. Maintaining mental fitness (mental fitness). This term may still rarely heard. How to maintain mental fitness is to remain active reading and enrich themselves with a variety of knowledge. Did we never too old to learn?

Can not deny that Alzheimer can be suffered anybody, not only we as ordinary people and even those who famous can not escape from it.

following the famous people with Alzheimer :

* Enid Blyton
* Charles Bronson
* Winston Churchill
* Perry Como
* Alfred Deakin
* James Doohan
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
* Barry Goldwater
* Rita Hayworth
* Charlton Heston
* Beatrice Lillie
* Queen Juliana from Holand(1948 – 1980)
* Burgess Meredith
* Iris Murdoch
* Maurice Ravel
* Ronald Reagan
* Sugar Ray Robinson
* Margaret Rutherford
* Cyrus Vance
* E.B. White
* Harold Wilson
* Randhy Dwirendrahadi


Hopefully we can continue to maintain our health.

Some time ago I have been writing about Alzheimer's Disease, now I try to write the person who signs be risk of suffering from this disease. Be careful brother !

People at risk

* Hypertension who have reached age 40 years and over
* Having diabetes
* Lack of exercise
* Level of high cholesterol
* The offspring - have families who have a disease at the age of 50-an.

Better to prevent rather than treat. Keep healthy Brother

The first time, found by Dr. Alois Alzheimer in 1907, the Alzheimer called, according to the name.

Surgical results of observation, Alzheimer brain nerve is found not only shrink, even filled with a cloud of unusual protein called plaque amiloid the fiber and kink (Neuro fibrillary).

Amiloid proteins that form cell-cell plaque protein, trusted cause chemical changes in the brain. Destruction nerve cells is causing the brain nerve function convey messages from one neuron to another neuron affected.

Although this disease is found that almost a century ago, it was not seterkenal other disease such as heart disease, hypertension, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) or the like.

This is caused by this disease can not be seen directly the symptoms of disease such as hypertension that can be seen through examination of blood pressure regularly.

Latest clinical research shows suplementation with a fatty acid omega-3 may slow decline in cognitive function in people with alzheimer light.

Senility or Alzheimer disease is a similar decrease in nerve function of the brain that the complex and progressive. Alzheimer's Disease is not a kind of infectious disease. Alzheimer's Disease is a condition in which retention decreases with someone so severe the patient is not able to manage themselves. Alzheimer's Disease is not 'childlike because old age' is simply a process of becoming older. Instead, it is a kind of health problem that is very harrowing and should be given attention.

Alzheimer classified into one of the types (dementia) is characterized by weakening the conversation, health, recall, consideration, changes in personality and behavior is not restrained. This is a burden not only to the people, even family members maintain. Alzheimer's Disease that lower memory function also disrupt the function of people with intellectual and social. Usually, family members only come to bring the sick people see a doctor when they are not resistant to the symptoms of the illness.

Up to now, the source of the actual disease is not known. However, it is not caused penuaan. However, the scientists argued, it is associated with the formation of and changes in the nerve cells into the normal fiber.

Carry a risk for Alzheimer disease is a synonym with the parents, the increase in line with the growing age. "Starting at the age of 65 years, someone has a risk of five per cent contract the disease and this risk increased two-fold every five years," said Ahli Psikogeriatrik, Office Medicine Psychology, Faculty of Medicine University of Malaya Center (PPUM), Dr. Esther Ebeenezer.

According to Esther, even though this disease is associated with the parents, but history proves that the disease first identified this disease is to have a woman in the age of early 50's.