Tuesday 6 November 2012

Yet another thing that can cause a sudden decline

I've posted about this before. There are quite a few things that can bring on dementia or can produce a sudden decline in people who already have dementia:

http://adventureswithdementia.blogspot.co.uk/2012_09_01_archive.html

As I've said in this post, there are probably other things, and I've now come across carers who are reporting that the person they were caring for had low sodium levels and that when this problem was addressed there was a big improvement with regard to the dementia symptoms. They were surprised as, until blood tests pointed them in the right direction, they had no idea.

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