Dementia is known as Alzheimer’s disease. Whether you can take Aripiprazole for Alzheimer’s disease should be decided based on your condition. Aripiprazole is mainly used to treat various types of schizophrenia, and can be taken by patients with Alzheimer’s disease under a doctor’s supervision if they have mental disorders.
Patients with Alzheimer’s disease can take drugs to improve cognitive function, such as memantine, donepezil, carboplatin, etc. under the guidance of a doctor. If the patient is accompanied by nervousness and anxiety, he or she can take drugs such as fluoxetine, sertraline, paroxetine, and so on. If the patient is accompanied by mental disorders, aripiprazole can be taken under the supervision of a doctor.
Aripiprazole can also be used in schizophrenia, and is more effective in improving language learning, work ability, and memory in patients with chronic schizophrenia. The main adverse effects of this drug are anxiety insomnia, drowsiness, headache, urinary incontinence, inability to sit still, etc. It should be contraindicated in people who are allergic to this drug.
Alzheimer’s disease patients should go to the hospital in time, under the guidance of the doctor to use the drug treatment, rather than take the drug privately.