Clinical investigation found that about 12% of the elderly patients who were hospitalized for digestive tract diseases had different degrees of malabsorption syndrome.
Fat diarrhea, dyspepsia and weight loss are common symptoms of the disease. In clinic, we often use D-xylose absorption test, fecal fat quantitative test and breath test to diagnose the senile malabsorption syndrome.
The treatment of senile malabsorption syndrome should pay attention to the following points:
① the elderly patients with malabsorption syndrome with substantial lesions (such as chronic gastritis, gastrointestinal diverticulitis, etc.) should be treated symptomatically,
② the elderly patients with malabsorption syndrome should strengthen the diet regulation, usually should be high protein, high calorie, low fat, non stimulating and digestible diet, and the daily fat intake should be less than 30g,
③ elderly patients with malabsorption syndrome should actively treat their own concurrent symptoms, such as those with severe abdominal distension can take digestive AIDS (such as domperidone); those with anemia can take iron, folic acid tablets, vitamin B12 and other drugs, and those with severe anemia can also consider blood transfusion.