The possible causes of fever and vomiting in the elderly include gastrointestinal infections and other digestive diseases, upper respiratory tract infections, and central system diseases such as meningitis or hydrocephalus.
1. Digestive system diseases: when elderly people experience vomiting and fever, it may be due to gastrointestinal infections caused by unclean diet, or appendicitis, which causes gastrointestinal symptoms such as vomiting, and the stimulation of inflammatory factors may lead to the symptoms of fever.
2. Upper respiratory tract infection: if the elderly patients have acute tonsillitis, acute pharyngitis and other upper respiratory tract infections, in the acute attack, the patient may have fever symptoms, and at the same time, due to the stimulation of pharyngeal inflammation, the patient appears to have symptoms of vomiting.
3. Central system diseases: if there are cerebrovascular diseases, meningitis, hydrocephalus and other central system diseases, due to the central thermoregulatory function is affected, can lead to fever, if the intracranial pressure increases will lead to symptoms of vomiting.
In addition to the above reasons, patients can also be caused by other factors leading to fever and vomiting, it is recommended to go to a regular hospital in time to find out the cause and timely treatment.