Elderly people recently have seven or eight bowel movements per day suggesting diarrhea, which is related to life and diet, diseases, medications, and so on. Dietary causes include exposure to cold, eating irritating food, etc.; disease causes include enteritis, irritable bowel syndrome, intestinal mass, etc.; drug causes include laxatives, gastrointestinal stimulants, etc. 1. Dietary reasons: getting cold, eating irritating food, etc. can lead to gastrointestinal peristalsis, digestion and absorption function decline, thus leading to diarrhea. 2. Disease causes: such as enteritis can also have mucus stools, fever and other symptoms; such as intestinal flora disorders, irritable bowel syndrome can also have abdominal pain, abdominal distension and other symptoms, which can be alleviated after defecation; such as intestinal masses have fatigue, weight loss, bloody stools and other conditions. 3. Drug causes: such as lactulose solution, laxatives such as Keseluk; such as mosapride, rucapride and other gastrointestinal tract power agents. For the elderly recently defecated seven or eight times a day, it is recommended to seek early medical attention to clarify the cause.