Challenges for Alzheimer’s Disease Therapy

A Challenging Road: Alzheimer's disease gets worse within a 20-year span, but most people survive between four to eight years. At certain times, it can become a challenging road not only for the Alzheimer's patient but for those who love them. How Alzheimer's Causes Death? The final stages of Alzheimer's cause a person to become helpless to do their daily activities. It causes problems within the bowel and bladder of the patient, causing a decline in their appetite, leading them to lose their capability to swallow, which further causes a lack of food intake which is likely to lead to the need of aspiration. Within these conditions of health, Alzheimer's is causing problems making the disease symptoms become worse forcing them to become accustom to illnesses. A weakening in the immune system is caused by Alzheimer's which effects the body by making it helpless against other sickness or disease that lead to death.

Treatment of Alzheimer's Many medications have known been acknowledged by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use for Alzheimer's patient which will help in reducing the effect of the symptoms and remove it for a period of time, like memory loss. Treatment for Mild to Moderate Alzheimer's Medications called cholinesterase inhibitors has been prescribed for mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease. These medications may help decrease some symptoms and help regulate some behavioral symptoms. The medications are Razadyne (galantamine), Exelon (rivastigmine), and Aricept?® (donepezil). Treatment for Moderate to Severe Alzheimer's A medication known as Namenda (memantine), an N-methyl D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonist, is prescribed to treat moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease, which used to decline the effect of symptoms, later enabling patients to sustain specific day-to-day tasks for a longer period of time without prescribed further medicine. Namenda is assumed to operate by regulating glutamate, an important brain chemical. If formed in large chunks, it can kill patient's brain cells.

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