Diarrhea in the elderly may be related to irritable bowel syndrome, or it may be caused by indigestion and enteritis.
1. Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS): Elderly people who are stimulated by adverse events, resulting in excessive mental and emotional stress, anxiety, or intolerance to certain foods, food allergies, etc., may cause irritable bowel syndrome, which may cause diarrhea, which may also be accompanied by abdominal distension, abdominal pain and other manifestations.
2. Indigestion: If the elderly have a poor diet, often overeat, or eat a lot of high protein, high fat food, it is easy to cause indigestion, resulting in the gastrointestinal tract in the food can not be digested and absorbed, it may cause diarrhea.
3. Enteritis: usually due to the elderly did not pay attention to dietary hygiene, resulting in the gastrointestinal tract is infected by bacteria, viruses and other pathogens, under the stimulation of inflammation, resulting in increased intestinal peristalsis, may cause diarrhea in the elderly, may be accompanied by diarrhea, abdominal pain and other symptoms.
Elderly people with diarrhea, after excluding physiological factors, should go to the regular hospital as soon as possible, after clarifying the cause, by the doctor to guide the treatment and conditioning.