What if the elderly can't eat?

1. Functional dyspepsia

can be treated

under the guidance of a doctor with gastric motility drugs, such as metoclopramide, domperidone, cisapride, etc., to promote gastrointestinal motility; Can also use multi-enzyme tablets, milk enzymes, trypsin tablets and other digestive enzyme preparations to improve loss of appetite symptoms.

2. Chronic gastritis

needs anti-HP treatment when there is Helicobacter pylori infection. Quadruple therapy is commonly used, i.e. proton pump inhibitor +2 kinds of antibiotics + bismuth agent. Prokinetic drugs such as cisapride, mosapride, itopride, etc. should also be used to relieve upper abdominal fullness, nausea and other symptoms and improve the symptoms of the elderly who cannot eat.

3. In the

early stage of gastric cancer, if the patient's body can still tolerate surgery, surgery should be performed as soon as possible. If the patient cannot tolerate surgery, the disease progression can be delayed by comprehensive treatment such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy and targeted therapy. After the disease is relieved, the symptoms of unable to eat will also be relieved.