Disease

In 2050, an estimated 50 million Americans over the age of 65 are expected to have Alzheimer 's Disease. Alzheimer 's Disease has been acknowledged and portrayed throughout history. Throughout this report the history, symptoms, different methods of diagnosis, prognosis or outcome, and treatments options for Alzheimer 's Disease will be discussed. In 1906, Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German physician, identified a collection of abnormal brain cells after a patient died after suffering years of…

In contrast from 20 years ago, celiac disease has become more prevalent than ever before. When one consumes food containing the protein gluten, the small intestine reacts by preventing vitamins and minerals to absorb. Gluten peptides are perceived as foreigners by antibodies within the body. Therefore, these antibodies treat them as a threat, and begin to destroy the intestinal wall called the epithelium and beyond the small intestine. Resolving the problem essentially requires a strict…

Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder disease that gradually the patient’s mental abilities are analyzed. The most obvious manifestation of dementia is memory disorder. Memory impairment often gradually created and progresses. At first, memory impairment and learning to recent events is limited but old memories are gradually damaged as well. For example a patient answers a question and if someone asked that question a few moments after she can’t answer it. The patient lost his personal staff…

Alzheimer’s disease is a psychological disorder that is near and dear to my heart. I worked in an Alzheimer’s and dementia facility for almost a year and a half. While working there I grew very close to a lot of the residents that I cared for. One specifically stood out to me. Even though Alzheimer’s had taken so much from her, she was still so loving and pure. This resident was always walking around holding a baby; it was one of the very few words she could still say. The few words she could…

Alzheimer’s Disease “Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive brain disorder that occurs gradually and results in memory loss, unusual behavior, personality changes, and a decline in thinking abilities that cannot be reversed.” (1) About 7 years ago when I was 8 years old my mom and my uncle started noticing my grandma forget things. They took her to the doctors and they discovered she had dementia. Dementia is very similar to Alzheimer’s disease. The difference is that Dementia is not a disease,…

1 in every 3 seniors will develop some type of dementia and will die because of it. Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common form of dementia affecting about 5 million people right now in the United States. Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder, which is a term that describes progressive loss of function of neurons in the brain. The early symptoms are often confused for normal age related symptoms, such as memory loss, which is one of the main reasons there are such a low number of…

Alzheimer’s: A Caregiver’s Disease Introduction Named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer, the man who first diagnosed the disease after examining the brain of a woman that died of an unusual mental illness, Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder that attacks and destroys memory, thinking, and eventually life skills including the ability to perform simple tasks such as speaking, swallowing, and writing. The deterioration of the brain is the result of amyloid plaques (or clumps) and neurofibrillary…

Devic’s disease is a chronic illness of nerve tissue, also known as inflammation of the optic nerve, and inflammation of the spinal cord. This is an uncommon disease. This disease is most common for loss of vision or pain in the eyes, blurred vision. There are 2 different types of this disease. The first is a classical type where one or both optic nerves are attacked of a short period of time, but then no recurrence. The second is a series of attacks over and over again but separated by periods…

infectious disease. Infectious diseases have no symptoms at all, but it has incurable infection that cause only immunity, and those that cause symptoms. Sometimes they are synonymous with infectious diseases. Infectious is a disease that easily migrates to many people. In Europe, there are many programs to cure and prevent the infectious disease. Not because they are well maintained, but because they have to maintain their life to be continue and not stop by the scary infectious disease. They…

Globalization has had such a massive impact on the spread of disease and illness in the world. Increased global travel, trade in food, food-borne illness, climate change are just a few of the main reasons. Historians say that during the colonization of the Americas, smallpox and measles could only travel around the world within a span of a year. Now people can hop on a plane and be anywhere in the world in 36 hours. Threatening aspect is that an infected person could fly to another continent,…