Damaged Brain Due to Aging and Infectious Germs Difficult Preventable

One of the triggers of brain damage that a stroke many related with factors that could prevent such a lifestyle. Though the brain can also be damaged due to other reasons that are difficult to avoid, for example the process of aging and infectious germs.

The aging process is a factor behind the development of various degenerative diseases of the brain such as dementia and Parkinson's. Although most are not deadly, brain damage due to the aging process greatly reduces productivity because it makes people so forgetful and hard to move your body.

"Increasing life expectancy in Indonesia led to new problems that the brain aging process and nervous tissue," said Health Minister (Menkes) Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih in the groundbreaking ceremony of the National Center for Brain RS (RS PON) in Cawang, East Jakarta, Tuesday (1 / 11 / 2011).

In addition to aging, neuroinfeksi also one of the main causes of damage to the brain and nervous system in the present. Minister of Health pointed out, brain damage can also be triggered by infection with meningitis, meningoencephalitis, tuberculosis, non-specific bacteria and fungi.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) also includes the type of infection that can attack the brain and nervous system, because one of the symptoms that often accompany such infections is tingling. In many cases, often tingling is an indication of a disturbance in the nervous system.

Another factor that sometimes is difficult to avoid trauma to the head or spine, for example due to traffic accidents. Otan and nervous system damage caused by these factors diperkisakan reach 7.5 percent of the total population.

Whatever the cause, the Minister emphasized early detection of various symptoms of brain damage is important to do. According to him, brain check-up can be one examination standard of health in hospitals, especially in RS PON is now being built.