What reason is anorexia insomnia in middle-aged and old people?
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Many old people should be happy and healthy in their old age, but their appetite declines and they don't want to eat anything. Many elderly people are anorexic. Serious anorexia in the elderly has many factors such as physiology, psychology and society. What reason is anorexia insomnia in middle-aged and old people? Let's talk about it
What reason is anorexia insomnia in middle-aged and old people?
1. Iron deficiency anemia: iron is the coenzyme of many enzymes in the body. If there is a lack of iron, it will not only cause anemia, but also affect the metabolic process in the body, hinder the normal function of tissues and cells, and endanger the whole body. For example, the digestive system will be affected, the elderly will have stomatitis, glossitis, anorexia, gastrointestinal digestion and absorption function weakened.
2. Physiological feeding: it has been confirmed by epidemiology that the intake of calories in a person's life is gradually decreasing. Physiological food intake decreases with age. Age can cause changes in gastrointestinal motility and transport function, and plays an important role in many factors regulating digestive function. Signals from the gastrointestinal tract delay gastric emptying, and satiety is related to gastric emptying rate.
3. Think more hurt the spleen: the elderly long-term emotional failure or excessive thinking, liver wood stasis, so that the digestion of the spleen and stomach further weakened, spleen loss of health and disease. Symptoms include anorexia, mental depression, epigastric distension, frequent belching, pale complexion, thin body, pale tongue, white fur and thin pulse. The treatment is to strengthen the spleen, soothe the liver and regulate qi.
matters needing attention
Family members had better understand whether anorexia of the elderly is caused by physiology or loneliness. Only by understanding the causes of anorexia of the elderly can we solve the problem of anorexia of the elderly.
