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Folk and herbal medicines that claim the ultimate treatment for Alzheimer''s disease, indicating that science has not yet discovered a cure for the disease, but rather medicines that alleviate the associated symptoms that appear on the patient. Dr. Naguib Qadi, a consultant neuroscience, cognitive and behavioral sciences consultant at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh and head of the scientific and medical committee at the Saudi Charitable Society for Alzheimer''s Disease, indicated to Al-Eqtisadiah that more than 30 percent of Alzheimer''s patients resort to herbal and popular medicines, while 65 resort to Medical treatment in late cases, while the weak of souls in some families exploit the injured to take away their property, especially in the middle stages of the disease, in which the patient speaks but does not realize everything he is doing.
Qazi added that some patients'' families feel ashamed of the treatment at the beginning of the patient’s injury, which drives them to incorrect treatment methods, while some families still attribute the disease to other unreal causes such as the eye, magic and touch, which delays the patient’s treatment and worsens his condition.
Dr. Naguib emphasized that Alzheimer''s disease usually affects the elderly over 65 years old, and the incidence rate doubles every five years, and senile dementia is one of the main causes of disability, injury and deteriorating brain function, and it is closely related to neurological diseases that affect the brain, and he noted that although Usually Alzheimer''s disease occurs after an advanced age and reaches 2 percent, but the younger ages are also vulnerable to infection in the presence of multiple other diseases, indicating that the youngest patient he saw was not older than 21 years.
And he considered that the lifestyle of the elderly in the Kingdom, especially women, doubles the incidence of Alzheimer''s disease more than twenty times, especially if diseases such as diabetes, stress and heart disease are accompanied with age, noting that eating white meat and vegetables and practicing walking for half an hour at a rate of three times reduces The risk of Alzheimer''s infection is about 50 per cent, in addition to mental exercises such as games and reading the Qur’an, stressing that the change in the current pattern contributes to reducing the risk of developing the disease, especially that the elderly in the Kingdom decreases his movement and communication with others, with great regret.
The consultant neurologist added that the true cause of the disease is still unknown, but there are various reasons, including aging, deformation of proteins in brain cells and their fibrosis, infection with more than one disease such as heart, diabetes, stress, severe head injuries, in addition to genetic diseases, explaining The current studies focused on stem cells as a treatment for the disease, but did not reach confirmed results, noting that there should be no travel abroad, especially to East Asian countries, to grow stem cells, whose results are expected to be impressive in the future in treating Alzheimer''s, but currently it may infect the patient with malignant tumors.
He pointed out that the early symptoms and signs of Alzheimer''s disease are short-term forgetfulness and the inability to perform daily functions such as work, driving the car as required, in addition to isolation from relatives and relatives and memory imbalance, calling on families with symptoms to quickly review the doctor and treatment because this reduces Disease severity.
He indicated that the Saudi Alzheimer''s Disease Charitable Society has recently concluded agreements with international institutions and hospitals to contribute to treating the disease and reducing its negative effects within the Kingdom, and an internal and external advisory body has been formed that includes seven global consultants of senior specialists in Alzheimer''s disease who will visit the Kingdom annually to implement medical plans for prevention and treatment.
He emphasized that the association is implementing a home care program to treat advanced patients with the disease and educate their families and families about the disease, in addition to conducting four surveys to determine the extent of the disease in the Kingdom.
In addition, the world celebrates Alzheimer''s Day today, Tuesday, which scientific studies confirm that it is constantly increasing, as it will reach 35 million sick people in the world for the year 2010, as a result of not being diagnosed early, which means depriving them of care and treatment, at the time. What the families of these patients suffer from frustration, tension and anger because those who love them change and do not know the true reason for this.
Alzheimer''s disease, which is a brain defect, is attributed to the German physician Alois Alzheimer, who was the first to describe the disease in 1906 AD, and since then, scientists have been able during the past century to come up with many important facts about Alzheimer''s disease.
The disease led to the emergence of cases of fraud and fraud on some of the injured in the Kingdom and the dispossession of their property and money as a result of exploiting the disease, as the courts witnessed many cases that resorted to medicine to prove the lack of awareness of patients who had suddenly transferred their property to a family member, as confirmed by Dr. Naguib Qadi.
On this, the daughter of an injured person confirmed to Al-Eqtisadiah that her older brother transferred all his father’s property to him, and their family was surprised by this after the death of their father, noting that the lack of awareness of the disease and the risks entailed by it and the delay in treatment were behind her brother’s exploitation of their father’s circumstances and depriving the rest of the family of inheritance. Her family has now resorted to the law to recover their rights and the case is still pending before the court
