Careless medication can cause malnutrition 
 
 
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        A 68 - year - old Yang Dama recently always feel no energy, check to the hospital medical clinic, showed her potassium only 2.33 millimoles per liter, lower than the normal value 3.5 ~ 5.5 millimoles per litre. This result simply explained, that is to say Yang Dama belongs to malnutrition. Yang Dama meals meal not, however, little also not serve fish or fowl, malnutrition, zha? 
 
        Continue to ask the doctor, find Yang Dama are taking a diuretic drugs, and the lack of targeted potassium supplement, this led to hypokalemia. 
 
        Meet with malnutrition, people are always looking for reasons from the diet, in fact, careless medication is often also important inducement. Several elderly commonly used medicines can cause malnutrition, everybody can pay attention to -- 
 
        Is a diuretic. This kind of medicine is to develop high blood pressure or chronic heart failure in old man commonly used medicines, long-term use can cause hypokalemia, show the limbs muscle weakness, abdominal distension and other symptoms. Taking diuretic, must eat more food containing potassium rich, some sea food such as kelp, laver. 
 
        Second, sedatives and antidepressants. The elderly commonly used antidepressants are tricyclic drugs such as c m microphones, long-term use of these drugs can lead to bulimia and partial addicted to sweets, and excess intake of sugar will cause nutritional disorder, also brought disaster to diabetes and obese patients. 
 
        Third, digoxin. People with heart disease, especially the elderly with chronic congestive heart failure, commonly used drug. Taking the drug, more than half of the old man will have symptoms such as fatigue, loss of appetite, eat less, deterioration of nutritional status. Therefore, control the dose, changing tastes, how compensatory nutrition is very important. 
 
        Four is a laxative. Such as double vinegar butyl phenol, phenolphthalein, taking these drugs can reduce intestinal uptake of glucose, affect the decomposition of fat, also can cause vitamin deficiency and reduce the absorption of calcium and phosphorus, old people to use less careful. (Yu Feng)
 
 
 
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