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Warpy

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6. People with signs of early dementia also need their serum ammonia levels checked

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Fri Mar 8, 2024, 03:57 PM

Mar 2024

because that is one thing that is treatable, although the initial treatment is unpleasant. Serum ammonia can be manufactured in the gut, so an antibiotic added to treatment with lactulose (laxative on steroids that draws ammonia into the diarrhea it produces) to bring down the levels while the antibiotic starts to work.

Sometimes dementia doesn't start in the brain.

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Living with memory loss, working to fend off dementia - WaPo [View all] question everything Mar 2024 OP

question everything in2herbs Mar 2024 #1

Good to know. Thanks question everything Mar 2024 #3

This article is mostly a promotion for an extremely expensive and risky drug. Big Blue Marble Mar 2024 #2

It does. Among the paragraphs that I had to snip question everything Mar 2024 #4

They were very general suggestions. Big Blue Marble Mar 2024 #5

People with signs of early dementia also need their serum ammonia levels checked Warpy Mar 2024 #6