Whether the elderly can eat osteotriol needs to be based on specific circumstances, if accompanied by osteoporosis is possible, if not generally not. Osteotriol has the ability to promote intestinal absorption of calcium and regulate the inorganic salts of bone, mainly for the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis. Elderly people with osteoporosis eating osteotriol may increase calcium absorption, if there is no osteoporosis generally can not eat, because osteotriol itself has its side effects. Osteotriol common side effects can cause hypercalcemia, may appear dizziness, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, muscle weakness, mental disorders, serious can lead to cardiac arrhythmia. Elderly people should go to a regular hospital for consultation, and the doctor should decide whether they need to take osteotriol according to the specific situation, and should not use the medicine blindly.