Severe illnesses and swallow a lot of medicine at a time? Medication reduction in older adults may actually be possible

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Chen Lao is 84 years old this year. He suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes, dizziness and other diseases. He has had tumor surgery before. It took almost a day for each follow-up visit, after seeing several departments, and prescribing a total of 20 kinds of medicines! Every time Chen Lao takes medicine, he has a handful of pills in his hand, and he feels like he has become a “medicine jar”. Because he is old, he often forgets to take medicine. Do you have to swallow all this medicine?

Elder Chen’s son brought him to the Department of Geriatrics, Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and invited Teng Shichao, the chief TCM physician, to come and take a look.

After receiving the consultation, Director Teng Shichao found that some of the drugs that Mr. Chen took had overlapping effects, and the combined use of some drugs would increase the side effects of the drugs. After Director Teng admitted Chen Lao to the hospital, he first made a comprehensive geriatric assessment for Chen Lao, including functional assessments such as daily living ability, fall risk, cognitive function, emotional state and social psychology. According to Chen’s individual situation, the original twenty oral methods were adjusted, and then combined with traditional Chinese medicine special application, moxibustion, foot bath and other external treatments. After the comprehensive conditioning of the geriatric department, when Chen Lao was discharged from the hospital, the medicine he took was reduced by almost half, and he did not need to write down the medicine he needed to take every day!

Introduced by Director Teng Shichao, the elderly are a special group, characterized by the coexistence of multiple diseases, the concurrent use of multiple drugs, rapid changes in disease conditions, many complications, long course of disease, and slow recovery. The current mode of medical treatment is often based on a specific disease to a specialist. This has brought confusion to elderly people like Chen who suffer from hypertension, diabetes, dizziness, tumor surgery and other diseases to see a doctor. It can make elderly patients more rational drug use, get reasonable medical treatment and care.

Director Teng Shichao emphasized that the elderly are a special group. Children should learn to understand the characteristics of the diseases of the elderly, and give more care to the elderly. The elderly not only live long, but also live with dignity.

(Source: Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News reporter Yang Yan correspondent Zhou Yanfei)

[Editor: Fu Ying]

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