Re: Re: Dementia preceded by reduced weight?

[Guest guest]

Anecdotally, one of the first things that tipped us off to my

mother-in-law's Alzheimer's were her claims that she kept " forgetting " to

eat. She also was forgetting to take her BP meds. By the time she told us

we could only guess how long that had been going on.

on 1/10/2005 7:57 PM, Rodney at perspect1111@... wrote:

>

> Hi Al:

>

> As for chickens and eggs: my bet is that in the early sub-clinical

> stages of dementia the afflicted individual loses interest in many of

> the activities non-afflicted individuals get out of life. Food may

> be one of those things. So the weight loss may result from the loss

> of interest in food.

>

> If this is correct then a loss of interest in food might be an

> important, early sub-clinical symptom, which would precede an obvious

> loss of weight.

>

> The only person I have met who had been diagnosed with alzheimer's

> seemed to have lost pretty much all interest in anything.

>

> Rodney.