Drinking may increase the risk of Dementia
Alcohol is the oldest and the wildest used drug in the world. Millions of people are nowadays consuming alcohol each day. It takes excessive amounts of alcohol to develop chronic diseases and other serious problems including high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, liver disease, and digestive problems other than cancer of the breast, mouth, throat, esophagus, liver, and colon, etc.
According to Alzheimer’s Disease International and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence(NICE) research studies claimed that Drinking consumption will cause Dementia.
What is Dementia?
Dementia consists of a variety of symptoms that suggests chronic dysfunction like mental function including mood, personality, judgments, and social behavior.
Approximately 15% of people with Dementia have reverse illness if treatment is initiated before irreversible damage takes place. Dementia occurs commonly in elderly age.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. Dementia not only impacted physical, psychological, social, and economic impact but also affected society and families at large. Dementia affects memory, thinking orientation, comprehension, calculation, learning capacity, language, and judgment.
Symptoms of Dementia
- Signs and symptoms of Dementia at an early age are forgetfulness, losing track of the time, become lost in familiar places.
- In the middle stage, it increases in the difficulty of communication expressing behavior changes, including wandering and repeated questioning
- In the last stage symptoms like not aware of the times and places, difficulty in recognizing people, an increase in aggression in nature.
According to reports, 50 million people have Dementia. Every 10, million new cases were recorded. It has been expected that more than 80 million people will be suffering from dementia in 2030 and 152 in 2050.
According to the CDC that is the Center for Disease Control, Alzheimer’s disease is one of the top 10th risky diseases. It has been reported excessive drinking, causes dementia.
CDC claimed exclusive drinking include, four or more drinks for women and five or more drinks for men during a single occasion and eight or more drinks per week for women or more than 14 drinks per week for men can be named as Binge Drinking and heavy drinking respectively.
Whereas in the case of moderate drinking it is described as only one drink per day for women and two per day for men.
Dementia which is also known as “Blackout”- a transient period of memory loss. Nowadays many doctors prefer the terms ‘alcohol-related brain injury’ or ‘alcohol-related dementia’ because alcohol abuse can cause impairments in many different brain functions.
These conditions mostly and commonly affect men over the age of 45 with a long history of alcohol abuse, though men and women of any age can get affected.
The risk clearly increases for anyone who drinks high levels of alcohol on a regular basis for a long time.
The National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia recommends that to reduce the risk of all health problems related to alcohol, adults should drink no more than that two standard drinks on any day. This limit is applied for the man and women both.
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Update by Namrata Ghosal