multiple diagnoses can be demonstrated with the case of dementia. Dementia can be caused by a wide variety of illnesses, injuries, and other factors. Narrowing down the type of dementia is critical to successful treatment. Individuals with Parkinson’s disease, for example, may have symptoms similar to other types of dementia, but the treatment could be vastly different. The symptoms of dementia can make it hard to pin down the specific type of the disease a patient has.
Failing to identify the type of dementia can result in poor treatment outcomes due to paradoxical reactions (when a medication causes an unexpectedly opposite reaction to what was intended). For example, individuals with a certain type of dementia called Lewy body typically have a paradoxical reaction to benzodiazepine medications such as Valium. When an agitated patient with Lewy body dementia is prescribed a benzodiazepine medication (which is a typical first-line medication for agitation), instead of calming the patient, the effect is to increase the level of agitation. For these reasons, an attentive doctor should first consider a range of possible forms of dementia and then narrow down the diagnosis to avoid prescribing an incorrect treatment.
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