Why is old people haemorrhage of upper digestive tract?

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First, let's find out what causes stomach bleeding in elderly people. Peptic ulcer can easily cause the elderly or adults to have different degrees of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. According to statistics in China, the incidence rate of gastric ulcer in the country over 65 years old is 5.2%, and it is increased to 8.5% over seventy years old, and the ulcer condition of the elderly is aggravated. On the one hand, it may increase the average life span of the population. The proportion of the elderly is related to the increase. With the increase of age, there are more opportunities to be exposed to ulcer factors. The clinical symptoms of senile peptic ulcer are often atypical, and the incidence of complications is relatively high. For example, bleeding is a high complication, and the mortality is also higher than that of young people.

Why is old people haemorrhage of upper digestive tract?

1. Peptic ulcer in the elderly is mainly manifested in pain. Pain often loses its normal rhythm. The location of headache is also vague. It is limited to the stomach. It may also appear in the left chest or below the chest. If proximal gastric ulcer occurs, there may be pain behind the sternum, similar to angina pectoris.

2. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding, mainly the most common complication of senile peptic ulcer, is characterized by large amount of bleeding, easy repeated bleeding, high mortality, and even frequent bleeding, which can easily lead to secondary anemia, and also cause a large number of black spots and shock caused by our blood volume reduction.

3. If the elderly's idolized ulcer causes upper gastrointestinal bleeding, it will also be accompanied by perforation. For the elderly's peptic ulcer complications, the second is the elderly's peptic ulcer combined with perforation. These are generally five typical clinical symptoms. Some patients have sudden failure as the main performance, and some patients have no subphrenic symptoms, The free gas has been perforated.

matters needing attention

To reduce the elderly upper gastrointestinal bleeding and peptic ulcer, we should eat less and more meals, eat regularly and quantitatively, choose less residue and digestible food, avoid spicy, fried, hard food, drink less strong tea and coffee, quit smoking, etc. At the same time, we need to carry out drug treatment to reduce gastric acid, including anti acid drugs and drugs to inhibit gastric acid secretion.