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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Alzheimer's / May 2005Mineral Deficiencies
Howdy Group, My wife has exhibited AD symptoms for the past six years. Her Mini-Mental score was 14 last year. She is currently exhibiting a greater than normal need for salt in her diet. I think if I'd let her, she'd down the shaker and ask to "keep `em comin'". As processes fail and the AD becomes more advanced, do real chemical deficiencies arise, or is there a need for increased mineral intake induced by loss of neural communications? Have any of you witnessed this behavior? Too much salt intake could be disastrous. I think I'll try to sneak some pseudo - salt into the favored shaker to lower the accumulating pile that has to be accumulating in my wife's tummy. Thank you for pertinent comments. go'l. Try putting sugar into the salt shaker. > Howdy Group, > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > go'l. Hi, She could be salting her food from habit, then forgetting she already salted, and doing it again and again. Then again she really could be craving salt, but my hunch is that she is forgetting. My mother in law developed a taste for sugar. She wanted sweets so much that it was really a bit of a problem, since she also began to develop diabetes. We took to giving her coffee or tea that had artificial sweetener already in it, and taking the sugar OFF of the table altogether. What prompted us to do this is that we did see her putting sugar in her coffee, stirring it, then going to put the same amount of sugar in all over again, then stirring it again, then sugaring it yet a third time. She was simply forgetting that she had already sugared her coffee. When we gave her coffee that was already sugared and creamed, she'd drink it that way. My advice to you would be to simply put away the salt shaker on the table. I think she is forgetting that she already salted it. ****** Come to mention it, my mother in law also did this with a jar of face cream that should have lasted her six months, and she went through it in two weeks. Why? Because before bed, she would wash her face, cream it, then go back and wash it again, and cream it again, etc. etc. etc. She went back and forth from the bathroom to the bedroom 5 or six times every evening, and we couldn't understand what was taking her so long to go to bed. We finally did figure it out when the new jar of face cream was emptied out in such a short time. It was then that we decided to dispense altogether with giving her face cream and trusting her with it. She could not remember that she had already washed and creamed her face.  SignatureBest Regards, Evelyn http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?index (to reply to me personally, remove 'sox') It might also be that her taste buds simply aren't picking up the salty flavor she's expecting. My MIL was salting her food heavily and swore the salt wasn't salty. IIRC, taste buds not picking up flavors isn't uncommon. Karen > > Howdy Group, > > > > My wife has exhibited AD symptoms for the past six years. Her Mini-Mental > > score was 14 last year. She is currently exhibiting a greater than normal > > need for salt in her diet. I think if I'd let her, she'd down the shaker > > and ask to "keep `em comin'". ---snip--- > She could be salting her food from habit, then forgetting she already > salted, and doing it again and again. > > Then again she really could be craving salt, but my hunch is that she is > forgetting. ---snip--- > She could be salting her food from habit, then forgetting she already > salted, and doing it again and again. > > Then again she really could be craving salt, but my hunch is that she is > forgetting. My great-grandmother did this. After brain surgery she lost all sense of taste and smell, so as a "dump cook" she could no longer season to taste. In the first few years, she could get close, but as she got older, she forgot how much went in or did it twice or not at all. We started avoiding the house at mealtimes, but she always had to feed us. (It's a grandmother thing, I think.) So we started visiting mid-afternoon, when she always had a little ice cream and strawberries. Those she couldn't mess up. (or at least didn't) Songbird > My wife has exhibited AD symptoms for the past six years. Her Mini-Mental > score was 14 last year. She is currently exhibiting a greater than normal [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > deficiencies arise, or is there a need for increased mineral intake induced > by loss of neural communications? it's probably a loss of taste sensation, or some kind of neural scrambling that makes her crave salt. > Have any of you witnessed this behavior? Too much salt intake could be > disastrous. I think I'll try to sneak some pseudo - salt into the favored > shaker to lower the accumulating pile that has to be accumulating in my > wife's tummy. talk to her doc about this. maybe some anti-delusion drugs might help. |
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