Dementia, also called senility, is an age-related disorder that affects the brain. It affects the person's ability to act and react, do daily activities and process information. As a result, several alterations to personality is observed among dementia patients. Today there are drug treatments for dementia that help control the progression of the disease.
Dementia Treatment
Treatments available for dementia do not help in completely eliminating the factors that cause damage to the sufferer's cognitive functions. They help to manage its troublesome symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, mood disorder, disorders of the neurovegetative and aggression, patients are put under drug medications.
Drug Treatment
To prevent the symptoms of dementia from affecting daily functions, patients needed to take a combination of drugs.
Antipsychotics
Neuroleptics and tranquilizers are used to manage the personality disorders caused by dementia. It provides relief to patients' restlessness, aggression and psychiatric symptoms.
Antidepressants
Dementia patients usually exhibit symptoms of depression. In this regard, taking antidepressants helps manage mood disorders by promoting or stimulating normal neurotransmitter functions.
Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are a common anti-anxiety drug that may be taken by dementia patients. Along with other anti-anxiety drugs, they keep the patients sedated to manage the disease's troublesome behaviors.
Hypnotics
Hypnotics are used to help dementia sufferers with their sleeping problems, helping them to sleep through the night.
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