How to treat inflammatory bowel disease in older adults

The elderly inflammatory bowel disease can be treated with general treatment, drug therapy and surgical treatment. 1. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease should strictly manage diet, strengthen nutrition, supplement vitamins, proteins and trace elements, drink more water, and maintain water and electrolyte balance in the body. 2. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease can choose appropriate drugs to control inflammation under the guidance of doctors, such as sulfasalazine, olsalazine, mesalazine, etc. 3. When the drug treatment effect of patients with inflammatory bowel disease is not good, intestinal tissue can be repaired by surgery, such as ileal pouch-anal anastomosis, ileostomy, pathological bowel resection, etc.