Increasing appetite and gastrointestinal absorption can be carried out through dietary adjustment, life adjustment and medication.
1. Dietary adjustment: increase appetite can eat some sour food, such as hawthorn and so on. Increase gastrointestinal absorption can eat some light and easy to digest diet, such as millet porridge, noodle soup such as liquid or semi-liquid food. This kind of food is rich in protein, carbohydrates and other necessary nutrients, but also easy to digest, not easy on the stomach and intestines to cause excess burden.
2. Life adjustment: life can be appropriate exercise, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, enhance immunity and digestion and absorption function, conducive to the increase in appetite. In addition, it is recommended to have a regular work and rest schedule, maintain sufficient sleep, avoid staying up late and working hard to cause gastrointestinal dysfunction, appetite and gastrointestinal absorption decline.
3. Medication: To increase appetite, you can take drugs such as domperidone and mosapride. This kind of drug promotes gastric power, food pushes downward in time, the stomach will be emptied in time, so as to stimulate the brain to produce or increase appetite. Increasing gastrointestinal absorption can be done with medications such as bifidobacteria and lactobacilli. This type of medication maintains the balance of intestinal flora and thus promotes gastrointestinal absorption.
All of the above medications should be used under doctor’s supervision, avoid self-medication.