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Common Alzheimers Disease Medications By Joanne Taylor |
| Thursday, March 5, 2009 |
Four of the most commonly used Alzheimer's Disease Medications
One of the main things to remember before you take any of these medications Alzheimer ie your doctor about any other medicines you are currently taking and any other health problems you may have.
Namenda
Namenda, this is one of the newest medicines to be given to people with Alzheimer's disease. The way this drug works, it helps regulate the activity of glutamate in the brain. Glutamate is making to help us with our learning and memory skills, but if we have too much glutamate in the brain, then we can attack nerve cells. Research has shown that it can take Namenda slow in this regard. The results showed that Alzheimer's disease in some patients there was a small improvement.
Dose
Namenda comes in tablet or liquid form. starts at 5 mg once daily, if you do not have side effects within 2 weeks, will be upped to 10 mg per day. It can be upped to every 2 weeks you are taking 10 mg twice daily.
Side Effects
Constipation, headaches, dizziness and confusion.
Cognex
Cognex is an inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase. Cognex works by breaking down acetylcholine in the brain. Acetylcholine helps many of our brain functions, such as, reason, language, memory and attention. If we do not do enough when it comes to ecetylcholine show signs and symptoms of Alzheimers disease. This medicine has been shown to be one of the most effective drugs for Alzheimer's disease.
Dose
Cognex comes as a capsule. Your doctor will begin by 10mg 4 times a day. If there are no side effects are shown in 4 weeks, the doctor increased the dose to 40 mg 4 times daily.
Side Effects
Dizziness, nausea, elevated liver enzymes, and diarrhea.
Exelon
Exelon does is that it postpones the progression of the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease 6-12 months. Acetylcholine is a chemical in our brain, which helps send messages between brain cells. People with Alzheimer's disease have less acetylcholine in the brain, so that Exelon is trying to increase this. This in turn will help reduce the rate of decline, or sometimes even improve the level of brain function.
Dose
It comes in capsules Exelon, patch or liquid form. Capsules and liquid begins to 1.5mg twice daily. If no side effects were observed within 2 weeks, it will be increased by 3mg per day, and so on until you've taken 6mg twice daily. The patch is 4.6mg and takes a day for 4 weeks. if there are no side effects, it will be increased to 9.5 patch day.
Side Effects
Nausea, diarrhea, increased stool, vomiting, muscle weakness, loss of appetite, weight loss, dizziness, drowsiness and stomach upset.
Aricept
Acetycholine plays a key role in our memory and learning. It is found that a person suffering with Alzheimer's disease, has fewer acetycholine, which then begins to affect their memory and learning skills. Aricept does is to postpone the progression of the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease 6-12 months, in about half of people taking it.Although. this is one of the most widely used in Alzheimer's disease medications, will not work for everyone.
Dose
Aricept is available in a tablet or an orally disintegrating tablet.Dosage starting at 5 mg. If no adverse effects were observed after 6 weeks, increasing to 10 mg.
Side Effects
Nausea, diarrhea, increased bowel movements, vomiting, pain, sleep disorders, muscle cramps, loss of appetite, fatigue and fainting.
At present, these are some of the most commonly used Alzheimer's disease medications. However, research is being carried out all the time
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