Constipation in elderly diabetic patients may be caused by lack of exercise, dietary structure and poor glycemic control, etc. The solution to constipation includes dietary modification, physical exercise and medication.
1. Dietary regulation: Elderly diabetic patients should eat a light diet with less oil, and it is recommended to take coarse food as the main food and fine food as the supplementary food/fewer meals, regular and quantitative dietary principles. Eat more foods high in dietary fiber, such as buckwheat, oats, beans and vegetables.
2. Physical exercise: constipated patients should pay more attention to physical exercise, such as walking, jogging and other sports, lying patients should be appropriate activities, as long as the patient can get out of bed, should be more walking, can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis.
3. medication: elderly diabetic patients with constipation need to pay attention to blood sugar control, you can use metformin for treatment, can reduce hepatic glucose synthesis and intestinal glucose absorption, can help diabetic patients to make full use of endogenous insulin, so as to reduce blood glucose to relieve constipation.
Bifidobacterium bifidum and Lactobacillus acidophilus can also be given appropriately to regulate gastrointestinal homeostasis and promote gastrointestinal absorption and digestion to relieve constipation. You can also follow the doctor’s instructions to use polyethylene glycol electrolyte bulk, aloe vera capsule, etc. to assist defecation.
If the elderly diabetic patient is constipated, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time and actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment.