{"id":63014,"date":"2025-04-25T02:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enfoquenoticioso.com\/?p=63014"},"modified":"2025-04-25T02:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:07:13","slug":"sintoma-temprano-de-alzheimer-que-puedes-detectar-en-la-cocina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enfoquenoticioso.com\/?p=63014","title":{"rendered":"S\u00edntoma temprano de alzh\u00e9imer que puedes detectar en la cocina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Detectar los<strong> s\u00edntomas tempranos de alzh\u00e9imer <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hipertextual.com\/2014\/03\/alzheimer-analisis-sangre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">es muy importante<\/a> para trabajar cuanto antes con los pacientes. Es cierto que no existe una cura. Sin embargo, si se detecta a tiempo se puede recurrir a ciertas medidas para ralentizar el desarrollo de la enfermedad. Adem\u00e1s, es posible inscribir a dichos pacientes en ensayos cl\u00ednicos para probar posibles tratamientos que, si no curan, al menos podr\u00edan ralentizar todav\u00eda m\u00e1s los s\u00edntomas. Hay varios de esos s\u00edntomas tempranos, pero uno que a veces se nos olvida es la <strong>p\u00e9rdida del olfato.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Una persona que est\u00e1 empezando a experimentar los cambios cerebrales asociados al alzh\u00e9imer puede tener problemas para identificar el olor de un plato que siempre cocina, el gel de ba\u00f1o con el que normalmente se ducha o las flores que cada primavera adornar su jard\u00edn. Es cierto que la p\u00e9rdida de olfato se puede dar por otros motivos. Lo vimos bien con la COVID-19. No obstante, si no se ha dado ninguna infecci\u00f3n previa y estas dificultades persisten, vale la pena consultar a un m\u00e9dico, sobre todo en <strong>personas mayores.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Este es de esos s\u00edntomas tempranos de alzh\u00e9imer que pueden pasar desapercibidos, pero es importante que no lo hagan. Sobre todo es llamativo cuando ese olor que cuesta tanto identificar es muy cotidiano para la persona. Es la raz\u00f3n por la que <strong>la cocina y el ba\u00f1o<\/strong> son dos lugares en los que puede detectarse; aunque, en realidad, vale cualquier sitio, l\u00f3gicamente.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_81 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Tabla de Contenido<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Alternar tabla de contenidos\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/enfoquenoticioso.com\/?p=63014\/#%C2%BFPor_que_la_perdida_de_olfato_puede_ser_uno_de_los_sintomas_tempranos_del_alzheimer\" >\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 la p\u00e9rdida de olfato puede ser uno de los s\u00edntomas tempranos del alzh\u00e9imer?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/enfoquenoticioso.com\/?p=63014\/#Tambien_ocurre_con_otras_enfermedades_neurodegenerativas\" >Tambi\u00e9n ocurre con otras enfermedades neurodegenerativas<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-por-que-la-perdida-de-olfato-puede-ser-uno-de-los-sintomas-tempranos-del-alzheimer\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%C2%BFPor_que_la_perdida_de_olfato_puede_ser_uno_de_los_sintomas_tempranos_del_alzheimer\"><\/span>\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 la p\u00e9rdida de olfato puede ser uno de los s\u00edntomas tempranos del alzh\u00e9imer?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>El <strong>bulbo olfatorio <\/strong>es la regi\u00f3n cerebral que se encarga de procesar las se\u00f1ales sensoriales relacionadas con el olfato. Se encuentra cerca del <strong>sistema l\u00edmbico,<\/strong> un \u00e1rea cerebral relacionada con el procesamiento de <strong>la memoria y las emociones<\/strong>. De hecho, ese es el motivo por el que los olores son <a href=\"https:\/\/hipertextual.com\/2023\/09\/olor-gasolina-por-que-unas-personas-adoran-otras-no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tan evocadores<\/a>. Pueden traernos todo tipo de recuerdos y, a la vez, asociarlos a <strong>emociones muy intensas<\/strong>. Que se lo digan a Proust y su magdalena mojada en t\u00e9. Solo con olerla unos segundos ya le evocaba toda su infancia.<\/p>\n<p>Todos sabemos bien que la <strong>p\u00e9rdida de memoria<\/strong> es uno de los s\u00edntomas m\u00e1s claros de la demencia. Este no suele pasar desapercibido, sobre todo a medida que se intensifica. Pero a veces puede tardar en aparecer. En cambio, hay s\u00edntomas tempranos del alzh\u00e9imer que en cierto modo est\u00e1n relacionados cerebralmente y pueden detectarse much\u00edsimo antes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1025\" onerror=\"if (typeof newspackHandleImageError === 'function') newspackHandleImageError(this);\" alt=\"p\u00e9rdida de olfato\" class=\"wp-image-1840662 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.hipertextual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/confused-elderly-female-gardener-wearing-gardening-hat-holding-looking-flowerpots-isolated-pink-wall-with-copy-space-1500x1025.jpg?resize=1500%2C1025&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1\" 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src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.hipertextual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/confused-elderly-female-gardener-wearing-gardening-hat-holding-looking-flowerpots-isolated-pink-wall-with-copy-space-1500x1025.jpg?resize=1500%2C1025&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"p\u00e9rdida de olfato\" class=\"wp-image-1840662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.hipertextual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/confused-elderly-female-gardener-wearing-gardening-hat-holding-looking-flowerpots-isolated-pink-wall-with-copy-space-scaled.jpg?resize=1500%2C1025&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.hipertextual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/confused-elderly-female-gardener-wearing-gardening-hat-holding-looking-flowerpots-isolated-pink-wall-with-copy-space-scaled.jpg?resize=800%2C547&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 800w, 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.hipertextual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/confused-elderly-female-gardener-wearing-gardening-hat-holding-looking-flowerpots-isolated-pink-wall-with-copy-space-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C820&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.hipertextual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/confused-elderly-female-gardener-wearing-gardening-hat-holding-looking-flowerpots-isolated-pink-wall-with-copy-space-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C700&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.hipertextual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/confused-elderly-female-gardener-wearing-gardening-hat-holding-looking-flowerpots-isolated-pink-wall-with-copy-space-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C1367&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.hipertextual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/confused-elderly-female-gardener-wearing-gardening-hat-holding-looking-flowerpots-isolated-pink-wall-with-copy-space-scaled.jpg?resize=780%2C533&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 780w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.hipertextual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/confused-elderly-female-gardener-wearing-gardening-hat-holding-looking-flowerpots-isolated-pink-wall-with-copy-space-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C273&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imgs.hipertextual.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/confused-elderly-female-gardener-wearing-gardening-hat-holding-looking-flowerpots-isolated-pink-wall-with-copy-space-1500x1025.jpg?w=370&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">La p\u00e9rdida del olfato puede ser un s\u00edntoma temprano al que prestar atenci\u00f3n. Cr\u00e9dito: Freepik. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-tambien-ocurre-con-otras-enfermedades-neurodegenerativas\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tambien_ocurre_con_otras_enfermedades_neurodegenerativas\"><\/span>Tambi\u00e9n ocurre con otras enfermedades neurodegenerativas<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Hay multitud de estudios que <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchicagomedicine.org\/forefront\/research-and-discoveries-articles\/elderly-who-have-trouble-identifying-odors-face-risk-of-dementia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">se\u00f1alan<\/a> esta relaci\u00f3n entre la p\u00e9rdida del olfato y la enfermedad de alzh\u00e9imer. Pero no es la \u00fanica afecci\u00f3n que se asocia a este s\u00edntoma. <strong>Otras enfermedades neurodegenerativas <\/strong>tambi\u00e9n se asocian a la p\u00e9rdida parcial o completa de este sentido.<\/p>\n<p>Incluso <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0107541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hay estudios<\/a> que asocian la p\u00e9rdida de olfato en personas mayores a un mayor riesgo de muerte. Uno de esos estudios, publicado en 2014, consider\u00f3 este s\u00edntoma como un indicador del riesgo de muerte m\u00e1s eficiente incluso que el diagn\u00f3stico de <strong>insuficiencia card\u00edaca, c\u00e1ncer o enfermedad pulmonar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>En definitiva, si una persona mayor experimenta la p\u00e9rdida del olfato y no es algo puntual, es muy importante estudiar el caso. Quiz\u00e1s no sea nada grave, pero <strong>vale m\u00e1s prevenir que curar.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<section id=\"block-152\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"\/>\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hipertextual.com\/2025\/04\/sintomas-tempranos-alzheimer-perdida-olfato\" class=\" target=\" title=\"S\u00edntoma temprano de alzh\u00e9imer que puedes detectar en la cocina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ver fuente<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detectar los s\u00edntomas tempranos de alzh\u00e9imer es muy importante para trabajar cuanto antes con los pacientes. Es cierto que no existe una cura. Sin embargo, si se detecta a tiempo se puede recurrir a ciertas medidas para ralentizar el desarrollo de la enfermedad. Adem\u00e1s, es posible inscribir a dichos pacientes en ensayos cl\u00ednicos para probar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tecnologia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfoquenoticioso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfoquenoticioso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfoquenoticioso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfoquenoticioso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfoquenoticioso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/enfoquenoticioso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfoquenoticioso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfoquenoticioso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfoquenoticioso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfoquenoticioso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}