Elderly people may have diarrhea caused by colon cancer, intestinal polyps, enteritis, etc. Generally, it is necessary to do colonoscopy, which can directly observe the lesions of intestinal mucosa so as not to delay the condition.
1. Colon cancer: there are cancer cells proliferating in the intestines, and the function of intestinal mucosa is weakened, which can not absorb water and so on, and it is easy to cause diarrhea, and there may be pus and blood in the stool. It is better to do colonoscopy, which can directly observe the lesions of intestinal mucosa, and can also take out the tissue for pathology examination.
2. Intestinal polyps: intestinal polyps stimulate the intestinal mucosa, if there is an inflammatory reaction, oozing inflammatory fluid, easy to cause gastrointestinal peristalsis, diarrhea. This situation requires a clear diagnosis of enteroscopy, but also can be removed under the enteroscopy.
3. Enteritis: the elderly resistance to decline, eat unhygienic or eat overnight food, easy to infected bacteria, resulting in intestinal inflammatory reaction, diarrhea. You can also do colonoscopy to see whether there is intestinal mucosal congestion, erosion, etc..
If the elderly often have diarrhea, can not clarify the disease, it is best to do colonoscopy, timely exclusion of intestinal cancer and other diseases. Diarrhea in the elderly may also be diabetes, cirrhosis of the liver, intestinal tuberculosis, intestinal flora imbalance and other reasons, should be timely consultation, under the guidance of the doctor to identify the causes, and reasonable treatment, so as not to delay the condition.