Dementia is often referred to as Alzheimer’s disease, and getting thinner may be caused by weak gastrointestinal function and nutritional disorders.
1. Weak gastrointestinal function: patients with Alzheimer’s disease have reduced activity in the late stage of the disease, the body’s metabolism is also slower, the gastrointestinal function is weakened, the amount of food is not much and the digestion and absorption is poor, the body will be getting thinner and thinner.
2. Nutritional disorders: Alzheimer’s disease patients in the emotional, cognitive problems, with the progress of the disease, patients will have a poor appetite, swallowing difficulties, choking on drinking water, no ability to eat and other problems, resulting in poor nutritional status, will be more and more thin.
Alzheimer’s disease is getting thinner and thinner for more reasons, specific to go to the hospital to check and judge.