Dementia : Using aluminum utensils can cause memory loss .. What is the truth ?

 Dementia: Using aluminium utensils can cause memory loss. What is the truth?

  Dementia affects many aspects of your daily life. Although dementia usually causes memory loss, it can take a toll over time. About 5.8 million people in the United States age 65 or older are affected by dementia.

Similarly, Alzheimer's disease is a common cause of dementia in the elderly. Although there are many other causes of dementia, medical advice is necessary to recover from it. In this way, we will learn about the facts about dementia and the myths established around it.

Dementia cannot be avoided with age

The claim that dementia in the elderly cannot be avoided is completely false. Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, affects only 3% of people aged 65-74 in the United States, according to a report published by the Alzheimer's Association.

As the risk increases with age, 17% of those aged 75-84 and 32% of those aged 85 and over have a diagnosis of dementia.

Dementia and Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia. Its incidence is 60-80 %. Types of dementia include frontotemporal dementia (FTD), vascular dementia, mixed dementia, and Lewy body dementia.

The National Institute of Mental Health defines dementia as the loss of cognitive function, thinking, memory, reasoning, and behavioural skills. This is Alzheimer's disease defined as plaques and tangles in the brain.

These plaques interfere with brain cells causing brain cell death and oxygen deprivation. It can also occur as a result of a stroke. It occurs when brain cells die when abnormal protein structures form in the brain.

If one family member has dementia, others will too

It is a myth that dementia is genetic. It is wrong to assume that someone in the family has dementia. There are some important risk factors for dementia. Dementia is more likely to be genetic if it occurs under the age of 65.

Dementia only affects the elderly

Some scientists estimate that about 38-260 out of 100,000 people aged 30-64 develop early-onset dementia at a rate of 0.038-0.26 %. In the 55–64 age range it approaches 0.4% per 100,000 people and 420 people

Using aluminium utensils can cause Alzheimer's disease

In the 1960s scientists injected large amounts of aluminium into rabbits. They found that the animals created neurological lesions that formed in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease. Similarly, some studies have found aluminium in plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease

Aluminium is also produced in a healthy brain. However, this has not been scientifically established yet. Following this study, the myth that using aluminium utensils increases the risk of Alzheimer's has been perpetuated. Experts say there is no scientific proof of how true this is.

Memory loss indicates dementia

Memory loss can happen anytime in our daily life. It does not necessarily mean dementia. Small-scale forgetfulness does not necessarily indicate dementia.

Dementia is always preventable

Dementia can not always be prevented. If we want we can delay its symptoms. For example, the Lancet Commission's 2020 report on Dementia Prevention, Intervention and Care talks about factors that increase the risk of dementia.

Factors include low education, high blood pressure, hearing loss, smoking, obesity, depression, physical inactivity, diabetes, low levels of social interaction, alcohol consumption, traumatic brain injury and air pollution.