Elderly people who can’t eat and have no appetite may be caused by oral diseases, gastrointestinal diseases and liver and gallbladder diseases, which can be treated by taking relevant medications.
1. Oral diseases: when the elderly have oral diseases such as periodontitis and swollen gums, there will be pain caused by chewing food, so the elderly may have poor appetite and no appetite, and they can take ibuprofen and other painkillers to treat the situation.
2. Gastrointestinal diseases: the function of the digestive system of the elderly decreases, the ability to digest food is weakened, if the usual diet irregularities or physical fitness is not good, it is easy to have indigestion, showing the symptoms of loss of appetite, you can take moxapride and other drugs to promote gastric power treatment.
3. Hepatobiliary diseases: such as cholecystitis, hepatitis and other liver and gallbladder disease patients can cause bile secretion abnormalities, but also affects the central system and thus the gastrointestinal tract hypotonia, resulting in patients with gastrointestinal peristalsis, the digestion and absorption of food slowed down, resulting in a loss of appetite, you can take ceftriaxone and other antibiotic medication.
Elderly people can not eat no appetite may be other reasons, if the symptoms of loss of appetite is serious, should go to the hospital in a timely manner, the above drugs used under the guidance of a doctor, avoid using their own, so as to avoid adverse reactions.