Medical professionals: Please help. Problem with Alzheimers symptoms, but no Alzheimers disease detected?
Recently, my mother has been displaying Alzheimer’s symptoms. She has been to the doctor and they have concluded that her brain activity do not display characteristics of the disease. The doctors don’t have any explanation as to why my mother is acting accordingly. My mother is also dialysis patient. Could she have come in contact with a medication that could have caused this problem? Could it be that someone slipped her some sort of narcotic? Please give me some possible explanations. Thank You A: Alzheimer’s disease cannot be definitely diagnosed until after death, when the brain can be closely examined for certain microscopic changes caused by the disease. However, through thorough testing and a “process of elimination,” doctors today can diagnose what they refer to as probable Alzheimer’s disease with almost 90% accuracy. http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/guide/making-diagnosis Dialysis can be very hard on the body….I am not sure what your mothers actions are but dialysis can be ve
