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(NewsNation) — Alzheimer's disease is arsenic cruel arsenic it is devastating, but it seems that with each passing day, caller advances are made to effort and halt the condition successful its tracks.
The latest one? A nasal spray developed by a Harvard University-affiliated hospital.
The spray works by treating inflammation successful the encephalon and reducing it truthful that the patient's reasoning and representation volition nary longer deteriorate. That's the theory, astatine least.
"We deliberation that inflammation plays a precise important role, due to the fact that the amyloid successful tau and different proteins origin inflammation successful the brain, benignant of similar getting pneumonia," Dr. Howard Weiner, a neurologist astatine Mass General Brigham and the developer of the spray, tells "Elizabeth Vargas Reports".
"And this inflammation causes toxic substances and harm to the brain, and determination truly isn't thing that's targeting inflammation. We've had precise bully results successful our animals, and we've besides been utilizing this successful different neurologic diseases similar (multiple sclerosis), wherever we've seen affirmative effects."
Patient showed little symptoms with spray: Doctor
Currently, determination are much than 7 cardinal radical successful the United States surviving with Alzheimer's. That fig is expected to treble by 2060. However, the caller nasal spray could alteration that based connected the results of Weiner's patient.
"Our archetypal diligent showed a melodramatic effect connected decreased inflammation successful the brain," said Weiner, who mislaid his parent to Alzheimer's disease.
"His woman says that helium is much socially engaged erstwhile helium went to the Super Bowl with his friends, helium seemed to recognize more. He looks aft himself more.
"So the household thinks things person stopped oregon slowed down and that he's doing a small better. But it's lone 1 person, and that's what they say."
Spray getting different proceedings tally with 32 people
Weiner said his infirmary is going to effort the spray connected much people, 32 to beryllium exact. Anybody tin motion up.
"There's a mode you tin registry oregon whatever, and past you get screened," said Weiner.
As for whether the spray volition beryllium much effective, Weiner is hoping so. He says the spray tin beryllium fixed with different treatments and works good with different drugs based connected the proceedings done.
He besides believes the spray is 3 oregon 4 years distant from being approved by the Food and Drug Administration arsenic they are acceptable to statesman the 2nd signifier of trials.
