According to the Alzheimer's Association, 5.3 million people in the U.S. are living with Alzheimer's disease. There is a new diagnosis every 70 seconds. These types of figures make it impossible to not know at least one person that suffers from this tragic disease. What if that person is you? What are Dr. Oz's five warning signs for Alzheimer's?
Dr. Oz explained five warning signs for Alzheimer's disease on Good Morning America, as well as proven diet tips that have shown to help prevent the disease.
The first sign for Alzheimer's is something that most Americans are probably afflicted with: memory loss. Memory loss is nothing new to our busy culture of work first, enjoy life second, but memory loss can be much more disruptive than just trying to remember where car keys are every morning. If memory loss begins becomes severe and starts disrupting everyday life, than it could be a sign. Forgetting things that are not usually forgotten (directions, birthdays, memories, etc) are more serious than an infamous set of chronically lost keys. Try to distinguish the seriousness of memory loss before diagnosing yourself or someone you know.
The second sign for Alzheimer's is also something that people do everyday: placing things in odd places. Especially in the most cluttered of homes, people will place things in the oddest places by accident all the time. Sometimes a carton of milk might find its way to the pantry instead of the refrigerator and a box of cereal might get thrown into the freezer instead of its usual shelf. However, when this type of activity becomes frequent and unruly, then it could be a sign of Alzheimer's disease.
Along with the above two signs, the third sign of Alzheimer's is when lost of misplaced items can never be retrieved. Sure, people always want to put a beeper on their TV remote or go crazy whenever they can't find a right shoe to match a left, but if this behavior is never cured by a found item, it could be a sign. Not to say this doesn't happen, Dr. Oz states if this happens so often it affects life to the point of disruption, there might be a problem.
The fourth and fifth sign Dr. Oz gives for Alzheimer's affects speech. If a person consistently talks around the simplest of words because they can't seem to figure out how to express their thoughts, then it could raise some flags. That brings on the fifth reason, not finding the regular words while speaking. Conversations are always filled with comments such as "What's the word I'm looking for?" but if every sentence ends with that statement, then there might be a problem.
Discovering these five signs might be difficult, considering they seem to be common human conditions of everyday life, especially for extremely busy people. However, these types of forgetful situations are generally never more than a little annoying. Dr. Oz stresses that when these symptoms begin to affect life in a negative way, than something should be done.
The Alzheimer's Associationn online has great resources to test memory and find out about all of the latest research of Alzheimer's disease.
Written by Amy Munday
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