Elderly people eat too much, especially dinner, and the elderly can cause a variety of emergencies after eating. Common emergencies are:
Acute pancreatitis
After overeating, because of vagus nerve excitement, combined with duodenal, pancreatic duct and bile duct common openings, due to a large number of eating, it will cause edema, paralysis here, causing pancreatic secretion and excretion disorders, resulting in the occurrence of pancreatitis . Light abdominal pain, vomiting. Severe cases may include shock, renal failure and respiratory failure.
Acute gastroenteritis
The stomach function of the elderly is inherently poor, coupled with a large number of eating, a sudden increase in the contents of the stomach, the vagus nerve caused by the stomach expansion, and excited vagus nerve in turn promote gastrointestinal congestion, increased motility, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other stomach The symptoms of enteritis.
sudden death
After eating, the elderly can interfere with diaphragmatic activities, affecting ventilation and respiratory function. For the elderly with arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease, it is easy to cause myocardial ischemia and hypoxia, and severe cases can induce myocardial electrophysiological disorders, cardiac arrhythmias and sudden death. .
Cardio-cerebral vascular accident
The reason is that in the case of increased gastrointestinal congestion and peristalsis, the brain and cardiovascular blood flow is reduced, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the heart and brain, and prone to ischemic diseases such as myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction.
From the above, the elderly diet must be appropriate, especially dinner should eat less to avoid the misfortune caused by gluttony.