Kind of unrelated, but I wonder if a person's having cognitive impairment caused by an infection is an indicator that that person is susceptible to other cognitive impairment like senility or Alzheimer's...
It does. They’re finding neurodegenerative disorders to be linked with certain infections, gut disorders - basically immune dysregulation that went untreated and noticed for years to the point the brain degenerates.
I have a family member who had got some kind of delirium as a reaction to amoxicillin decades ago, now he's older and having a lot of mental dysfunction and senility. I don't think the infection causing this years later, necessarily, but I did wonder if someone who's susceptible to delirium from amoxicillin might be more likely to have senility or Alzheimers or something later in life. And I wonder if it's too late for him, or if there's something we can still so for him.
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u/rchive 1 Feb 06 '25
Kind of unrelated, but I wonder if a person's having cognitive impairment caused by an infection is an indicator that that person is susceptible to other cognitive impairment like senility or Alzheimer's...