As we get older, vision will inevitably deteriorate. However, a 70-year-old mother-in-law reported to her family that she often saw “dwarfs” running around the house. What was even more puzzling was that the mother-in-law confirmed that her eyesight was normal after seeking medical attention. Seeking a psychiatrist, I learned that my mother-in-law was suffering from a disease.
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Mother-in-law: Why are there dwarves running around the house?
According to Dr. Zhang Hanqi, a specialist in psychiatry, who shared the above case with “Sky Post”, Granny Chen is in her 70s and lives in the same unit as her husband and worker sister, and they have been living in peace. Until the last year and a half, her memory began to have problems, and she gradually became forgetful. She sometimes forgot where to put the things she just bought. Her husband and the worker’s sister also felt that she was in a trance, but they didn’t know why.
In addition, the children also found that Granny Chen often walks unsteadily recently, her speed is slower than before, and her steps are not as steady as before when she descends the stairs. The situation makes the husband and children very worried. On the other hand, Granny Chen is not much different on weekdays. Although her walk is not as steady as before, at least she can walk and take care of herself in life, so the family did not take any action. It wasn’t until something happened one day that the family really worried. That day, Granny Chen asked her family:
“Why are there some dwarves walking around our house? Who brought them?”
At that time, the family thought it was very strange, because no one had seen a “dwarf” in the house, so they began to worry about Granny Chen’s physical condition, and even worried about supernatural events at home, so they first took Granny Chen to see a doctor and have their eyesight checked. However, it was finally confirmed that Granny Chen had normal eyesight, so she sought medical treatment from a psychiatrist and conducted a detailed cognitive assessment and arranged for a clinical psychologist to conduct a test. It was finally confirmed that Granny Chen did not see “dirty things” and it was not a vision problem. , but suffered from Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB).
Doctor: Medication can only slow down the degeneration but not reverse the condition
Dr. Zhang Hanqi explained that the brain degeneration caused by “Lewy body dementia” is similar to that of general dementia, including symptoms such as poor memory and logical thinking. But what is interesting is that it is more likely to cause movement problems in patients, such as stiff hands and unsteady standing; even a certain proportion of patients with Lewy body dementia occasionally experience hallucinations, and Grandma Chen is one of them Typical, there is no dwarf in the house, but she sees the dwarf walking around.
After Granny Chen finally prescribed the drug, she never saw anything that didn’t exist. Dr. Zhang Hanqi pointed out that there is another point to pay attention to in this disease, that is, like other types of cognitive impairment, the function of brain cells will gradually weaken, and brain function will degenerate. Taking medicine can slow down the degeneration, but it cannot be 100% reversed.
The treatment of “Lewy body dementia” is also a little special. Be careful when using general psychiatric drugs, because patients may be more sensitive to these drugs and are prone to side effects. Therefore, sometimes seeing hallucinations is not necessarily a vision problem or a supernatural event, but may be a problem with the brain, such as a brain tumor, suffering from sheep disease, etc., all of which may have hallucinations.
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Written by: Wu Zifeng
2023-05-26 01:09:22
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