Brain atrophy refers to a kind of neuropsychiatric disease that causes atrophy of brain tissue itself due to various reasons. Not only do adults suffer from brain atrophy, but also children. But most of the brain atrophy patients are adults, and men are more. There are many kinds of brain atrophy and different symptoms. So what are the common manifestations of brain atrophy? How do you need daily care? Here's a look at it.

Common manifestations of brain atrophy

1. Systemic symptoms:The waist and knee are weak, the hands and feet are numb, and the movements are slow. In the physical aspect, it is often manifested as old-fashioned dragon bell, white teeth, nervous system symptoms may exist, or may be missing.

2. Memory disorders:The memory deficit of recent events occurs earlier, such as frequently losing items, forgetting the promised events, etc. As the disease progresses, it gradually leads to complete loss of memory.

3. Change of personality and behavior:No desire, indifferent affection, or suspicious of selfishness; fantasy, illusion, hallucination, aphasia, ignorance; sense of shame, responsibility, honor and morality have decreased to varying degrees.

4. Intelligence impairment and dementia:Intellectual activities such as comprehension, judgment and calculation declined in an all-round way. From the late stage of illness, life could not be taken care of by oneself, without alienation, inarticulation, chaos, and ultimately complete dementia.

Daily nursing care of patients with cerebral atrophy

Daily nursing care for patients with cerebral atrophy should pay attention to the following three points:

1. Mobilizing Spirit

Keep a happy and optimistic mood, avoid excessive mental tension and over-thinking. Should be clear-minded, indifferent and empty, quiet, self-contained, open-minded, open-minded, not over-calculating, not greedy, maintain a quiet and peaceful mind, especially for the elderly.

2. Drug conditioning

For the elderly over 50 years old, especially the patients with hereditary family history of brain atrophy, it is more necessary to choose the traditional Chinese medicine to delay aging around 50 years old in order to improve the condition of brain cell aging.

3. Combination of work and leisure

Moderate exercise to avoid excessive fatigue, appropriate participation in some physical work and sports within our capabilities, in order to enhance physical fitness, enhance the body's ability to resist disease, but also to have adequate sleep and rest, while doing some training such as Taijiquan or Qigong every day, to promote the body's blood flow, increase the blood circulation and oxygen supply to the brain.

Reminder:Brain atrophy symptoms in the latent period is not obvious, so we had better know as much as possible about the symptoms of brain atrophy, so that we can discover the condition at the first time when the disease occurs, before we can go to the hospital as soon as possible for treatment, help or their families are not suffering from the disease.