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Some time ago, 65-year-old Aunt Li felt a little unwell, and her daughter wanted to arrange a physical examination for her, but after checking it on the Internet, she still didn't know how to arrange a physical examination for Aunt Li.
There are certainly many cases like Xiao Li, so how should you arrange a physical examination for the elderly over 60 years old?
In the face of the impact of deep social aging, the physical health of the elderly aged 60 and above has become a major concern of all sectors of society. The elderly are less sick or not sick, which has become the expectation of countless children.
In order to ensure the health of the elderly at home, regular physical examinations for the elderly have become a major task for a generation of children.
However, for the children of non-medical majors, how to reasonably arrange physical examination items for the elderly is a major problem that troubles them, how to arrange physical examination items to ensure the reliability of the results while making the elderly suffer less?
Population aging is a topic of the times, which means that this will be a professional outlet, there are many similar physical examination institutions and health clubs on the market, they can provide physical examination services.
However, there are specializations in the art industry, and professionals do professional things. Therefore, the first step in arranging a physical examination for the elderly is to choose a reliable medical institution, and then consider the problem of examination items.
Physical examination is necessary for people of all ages, through regular physical examination, you can understand a person's physical health, can timely detect some diseases incubation period released by the distress signal, timely intervention.
Achieve the expected effect of prevention before disease and prevention of existing diseases. This is even more necessary for the elderly, because many diseases have a certain cumulative effect, and the elderly are the most common group of various diseases.
However, the items that people of different ages need to focus on are different, and a full set of physical examinations is not suitable for people of all ages. So for the elderly over 60 years old who have deteriorated in all aspects of their physical functions, what kind of physical examination is needed?
For the elderly aged 60 and above, doing those so-called "full set of physical examinations" and "various physical examination packages" and other examinations is of little significance, but makes the elderly suffer more "physical examination crimes", and the elderly can not withstand cumbersome examination items.
Based on the doctor's reminder: after the age of 60 physical examination, do these 4 examinations well, do not have to do every examination.
First, blood sampling is one of the indispensable items for physical examination of the elderly
Doctors can tell whether the elderly person has anemia through the blood routine report. Anemia is extremely prone to occur in the case of weakened bone marrow hematopoietic function in the elderly.
Once the elderly are anemia, it will affect the normal work of the skin, gastrointestinal tract, respiratory system and nervous system, and cause a certain degree of adverse effects on the life of the elderly.
By looking at the biochemical indicators of the elderly, doctors can determine whether the blood sugar and blood lipids of the elderly are normal, whether the liver function is impaired, whether the kidney function is normal and whether the uric acid content is normal.
If blood glucose and lipids are abnormal, further tests can be done in time.
Blood test reports can also show electrolyte disorders, and electrolytes such as potassium, sodium, chloride, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron and other electrolytes in the human body play an important role in maintaining the normal metabolism of the human body.
By looking at the levels of hormones in the elderly, doctors can infer whether the corresponding endocrine glands are in normal working condition.
The blood test report can also reflect the liver and kidney function of the elderly, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, "kidney is the mother of the liver" is enough to reflect the importance of normal liver and kidney function.
And the liver is a well-known "silent organ", there will be no obvious manifestations after the lesion, and the patient itself cannot feel it without examination, once felt, it is already time to become terminally ill.
Second, CT examination is also one of the items that the elderly must do
Compared with MRI, CT examination does not require that the examiner must not contain metal in the body, which is very friendly to the elderly with dentures and pacemakers.
At the same time, CT machine is not the same as the MRI machine, the space is relatively closed, easy to make people claustrophobic, for the more sensitive elderly is a good choice.
Moreover, CT examination is very keen for detecting chest and abdominal diseases, and even tiny lesions can not escape the eyes of CT machines, which can largely achieve the purpose of preventing degeneration of existing diseases.
However, CT examination has certain side effects--- radiation is relatively large, the tolerance of the elderly is weakened, and some discomfort may occur after CT examination. Therefore, although the CT examination effect is good, based on the short-term examination experience of the elderly and long-term health considerations, it can not be done often, and it can be done once a year.
Third, colonoscopy is also very important for middle-aged and elderly people
The elderly are a high-risk group of bowel cancer, although CT examination can also check intestinal health problems, but it can only reflect some imaging problems, no colonoscopy examination effect is good.
As an endoscope, colonoscopy can penetrate deep into the intestine, clearly reflect the health of the intestinal lining, and detect various small lesions in time.
Colonoscopy can find early lesions is a big advantage, but after all, it is an invasive examination, and the tolerance of the elderly is relatively weak, which will cause severe discomfort in the elderly, so it can be done every two or three years.
Fourth, gastroscopy can not be ignored
China is a country with a high incidence of stomach diseases, and for the elderly, the incidence of stomach diseases is higher than that of other age groups.
Frequent indigestion, stomach pain, these mean that the elderly have gastrointestinal problems, gastroscopy can directly observe the state of the gastric mucosa, timely find the lesion site.
However, gastroscopy, like colonoscopy, belongs to the category of invasive examination, which will cause strong discomfort to the elderly during the examination, so pay attention to the interval between this examination.
Epilogue:
The world is bustling, all for profit; The world is crowded, all for the good.
There are many undesirable medical examination institutions that include many examinations that seem to be useful but do not have any medical basis in their medical examination items for the sake of profit, which fools the elderly into believing it.
Therefore, when children arrange physical examinations for the elderly, they must keep their eyes open, go to regular medical institutions, preferably to public hospitals, stay awake, reasonably choose examinations that are useful for the health of the elderly, and do not be blinded by those so-called alluring examination items.