Dementia in Children

The popular perception of dementia is that it is strictly "an old person's disease," with the photo in our mind narrowing its focus on that of a confused senior people with Alzheimer's disease, struggling to get through a life that was once much simpler, and easier to understand. It's an image that few people want to face for ourselves, or for our parents, grandparents and other house members and friends. But fantasize this illness, with its memory loss, confusion, and inability to accomplish base daily functions, in a child.

Yes, a child.

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Before one can fantasize this horrible possibility, understand that there are 5 main types of dementia: Cortical Dementia, Subcortical Dementia, Progressive Dementia, original Dementia and Secondary Dementia. In the first four types, dementia is the original disease. With secondary dementia, there is someone else disease gift and dementia is one of the symptoms, or potential symptoms. Dementia in children can be thought about as a secondary dementia in which there is a health that leads to dementia like symptoms.

Dementia in Children

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Dementia is basically a neurodegenerative disorder in which there is a decline in mental and cognitive abilities. This means that the outpatient had previously learned skills and abilities, but begin to lose those skills and abilities with the onset of a disease that carries dementia like symptoms. Some childhood diseases attack so early that there is no regression of learned abilities, but rather, conditions are gift which prevent them from progressing in mental functioning and mobility.

There are many types of childhood diseases and disorders which can lead to dementia and we scrutinize some of the more frequently occurring below.

Niemann-Pick Disease is an inherited disorder in children in which the metabolism malfunctions to the point that cholesterol and lipids can't be metabolized, foremost to their build up on the liver, spleen and brain. A whole of symptoms make after these organs are affected including: confusion, slurred speech, studying problems, memory loss, dysphagia, and dementia. Type A of Npd is always fatal, while the determination for those with type B is often good. Survival rates for type C and D are mixed.

Lafora Body Disease is a rare, inherited genetic disorder in which Lafora bodies (microscopic elements) are gift on the brain, liver, spleen, and muscle tissues of children in the middle of the ages of 6 to 19. This often leads to seizures, mobility, and dementia. Death usually occurs within 10 years.

Batten Disease is an inherited and rare neurodegenerative disorder that develops in childhood and is, unfortunately, always fatal. Symptoms can appear in the middle of the ages for 4 and 10 and manifest themselves with the dementia like symptoms of behavioral changes, difficulty in school and learning, clumsiness, repetitive speech, mental impairment, blindness, and immobility.

Mitochondrial myopathy is a mitochondrial disease that affects the muscle fibers of patients, foremost to cognitive impairment and dementia as the original symptoms. Other symptoms comprise deafness, blindness, droopy eyelids, immobility of the eyes, seizures, and vomiting. Most cases of mitochondrial myopathy begin before the age of 20 and come to be evident while rehearsal with muscle weakness, nausea, breathlessness, and headaches. This disorder can lead to death, but not in all cases.

Rasmussen's encephalitis is a rare disease in which inflammation will occur in one hemisphere of the brain. The symptoms are similar to the diseases mentioned above in that the young patient, (usually under the age of 10) will suffer from seizures, impaired mobility, speech problems, numbness (on one side of the body), and mental and cognitive deterioration. Although it is not fatal, the effects of this disease are usually life-long. recent mental on Rasmussen's encephalitis is that it is an autoimmune disease which has refocused the medication to suppress or modulate the immune system, which has seen some success. Surgery to control the seizures may also be a potential rehabilitation approach.

Sanfilippo syndrome is an inherited disease in which the metabolism is unable to break down determined sugar molecules. Sanfilippo syndrome belongs to a group of diseases called mucopolysaccharidoses or Mps. There are 4 types of Mps of which Sanfilippo syndrome is an Mps Iii type. Further, there are 4 types of Sanfilippo syndrome, Types A, B, C, and D. Incidence rates place Mps Iii at one in every 70,000 births and symptoms often appear in the first year, with a decline in studying capability in the middle of the ages of 2 and 6. Behavioral problems, delayed development, mental retardation, blindness, seizures and shortened height are base symptoms.

Juvenile Huntington's disease is the young people's version of a mostly adult disease. Practically six percent of all Huntington's disease cases begin in children and adolescents below the age of 21. Cognitive impairment might only occur in some Jhd patients.

Other types of neurodegenerative disorders which can lead to dementia like symptoms in children include: Alexander disease, Schilder's disease, Tay Sach's disease, Canavan disease, Rett syndrome, and Adrenoleukodystrophy.

There doesn't appear to be a preserve society for the umbrella understanding of dementia in children, but there are definite associations and preserve groups for most of the diseases mentioned above. These can be found online.

Dementia in Children