How to treat anorexia in the elderly

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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. So what causes the decline of appetite in the elderly? Is there any good way to treat the loss of appetite of the elderly?

How to treat anorexia in the elderly

First: taste degradation and smell degradation. It is often said that food is attractive only when it is full of color and fragrance. But if the taste and sense of smell of the elderly are aging and declining due to the growth of age, the taste of food is not very strong. This leads to a loss of appetite.

Second: multiple ways to stimulate taste. The deterioration or even loss of taste in the elderly may be caused by the aging of human body function, or it may be caused by the disorder of taste and smell. We can use taste stimulants for the elderly, or we can stimulate the taste of food. But we should pay attention to spicy and salty food, and do not give it to the elderly.

Third: "geriatric diseases" lead to loss of appetite. Here, geriatric diseases refer to the common cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, chronic gastrointestinal diseases, respiratory diseases and urinary system diseases of the elderly. These diseases will lead to the abnormal feedback of the body reaction of the elderly when they eat normally, leading to anorexia of basic diseases.

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No matter what kind of geriatric disease is more ferocious than anorexia, which has a greater impact on the health of the elderly. Bird, who knows nothing about this problem, still suggests that patients first treat the basic diseases, and then wait for the body to return to a more healthy state, so people naturally want to eat.