Symptoms of intestinal obstruction in the elderly?

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Intestinal obstruction, as the name suggests, is a common surgical disease. Because the intestinal tract is "blocked", it will lead to no way to discharge the things in the intestinal tract, resulting in more and more accumulation in the gastrointestinal tract, and the intestinal tract will become more and more swollen, thus causing the patient's systemic crisis. Therefore, after the discovery of intestinal obstruction, timely hospitalization should be carried out, Avoid creating a bigger crisis. Symptoms of intestinal obstruction in the elderly? Let's talk about it.

Symptoms of intestinal obstruction in the elderly?

Background knowledge today's society has gradually entered the aging, the life expectancy of our population is increasing, the surgical diseases of the elderly are also increasing, intestinal obstruction is one of them. The so-called intestinal obstruction is caused by any cause of intestinal content can not operate normally, smooth through the intestinal tract is intestinal obstruction, often abdominal pain, abdominal distension, stop exhaust defecation and vomiting and other clinical symptoms. The elderly intestinal obstruction often due to clinical symptoms is not obvious, diagnosis and treatment delay, at the same time, the elderly patients in the physiological decline and combined with serious underlying diseases, the disease progress is more rapid than young patients, also dangerous, clinical mortality is higher. Therefore, patients' families and doctors should pay attention to the elderly intestinal obstruction, early detection, early treatment.

According to research statistics, the main causes of intestinal obstruction in the elderly are intestinal adhesion, abdominal malignant tumor, intussusception, blunt hernia, volvulus and so on. With the development of aging population and science and technology, abdominal surgery for the elderly is becoming more and more popular, so postoperative intestinal obstruction caused by intestinal adhesion has become the most common cause of intestinal obstruction in the elderly. With the growth of age, the incidence of intraperitoneal malignant tumors, especially colorectal cancer, is gradually increasing, so colorectal cancer has become an important cause of intestinal obstruction in the elderly. Among the above reasons, colorectal cancer has the greatest physiological and psychological impact on patients.

3. Vomiting: vomiting is also a gastrointestinal disorder. If it is high intestinal obstruction, vomiting will appear earlier, and the amount of vomiting, and very frequent. If it is low intestinal obstruction, then it will be more late vomiting, the number and volume of vomiting are less, but there will be fecal odor.

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After treatment, with the doctor's medical history collection, complete the physical examination and necessary auxiliary examination, on this basis, we can have an accurate judgment of the etiology, degree and prognosis of intestinal obstruction in the elderly, and then choose the correct treatment plan, the best operation time and appropriate operation method. Only by doing these can we better maintain the health of elderly patients.