The elderly at home are always suspected that they are sick, and they can't find out when they go to the hospital. What should I do?

If the old man's body appears slightly, the whole family will follow. However, sometimes, although the old population said all kinds of discomfort, the doctor gave a response to "not a big deal."

Why is this? Is the elderly in the family deliberately pretending to be sick?

of course not!

With the age of age, the elderly's body and psychology are becoming more fragile. When the old friend around him suddenly went, the old man would fall into panic, and he always suspected that he was sick, so that some symptoms had some symptoms. Such an old man is likely to suffer from "suspected illness."

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01. What is an elderly suspected condition?

The elderly are also called suspicious disease neurosis. Patients will attach great importance to their physical health. They always worry that certain organs will have lesions and will suffer from some difficult diseases. In fact, this is a common psychological phenomenon for the elderly.

Simply put, there is no illness suspected of being sick, and from time to time, you can settle yourself with "heart disease", "hypertension" or "diabetes". It will also be enlarged by minor illnesses, exaggerate the condition, and treats small changes as evidence of severe diseases.

These elderly people will treat minor illnesses as serious illnesses, and they will seek medical treatment repeatedly. They are urgent to check the diagnosis of clearly, and strongly require doctors to give treatment and take drugs for a long time, so as to form a special drug dependence and take medicine. Only in this way can their psychology be satisfied.

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Generally speaking, when people are old, they often have two problems in their lives. One is to reduce self -confidence, and the other is that they cannot correctly understand and understand the laws of nature [1].

Therefore, if the elderly have the characteristics of sensitive and suspicious, susceptible to hints, and small social activities, it will be more likely to suffer from this disease.

02. The characteristics of senile suspected diseases

The elderly suspected condition is a morbid psychology, which may also affect human digestive and nervous system, which causes many symptoms.

1. Suspicious psychology

Patients are extremely sensitive to changes in a certain part of the body, and they will be suspected of being sick at a little discomfort. When diagnosis and treatment, some patients do not say clearly where they are uncomfortable, but they must be checked. Some patients will speak the disease very realistic and vivid, so that they are required to accept various examinations.

Although the final test results are normal, doctors' explanation and guarantees are still not enough to eliminate their beliefs. The patient still believes that the examination may be wrong. Next, they will worry about anxiety, fear, and nervousness.

2. Pain feeling

About two -thirds of patients have pain symptoms, and the common parts are head, lower waist or right nest. However, patients do not clearly describe the nature of pain, and sometimes even say that the whole body pain, but seeking medical treatment everywhere has no results. For this reason, patients are often accompanied by symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety, and depression due to overly anxiety.

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3. Symptoms

It often involves many different areas of the body, and the head, neck, chest, and abdomen are the most common.

Some patients have a special taste in their mouths, feeling disgusting, difficulty in swallowing, refluxing acid, flatulence, abdominal pain, palpitations, left chest pain, dyspnea, worrying about hypertension or heart disease; It is a strange nose and ears; some patients complain about body odor or sweating.

These symptoms are often the result of the elderly's excessive attention, so repeatedly going to the hospital for examination can not be diagnosed with specific diseases.

In the face of the pain of the elderly, what can we do?

03. How to deal with suspected elderly diseases?

1. Cognitive treatment

The elderly have a negative evaluation of health, too much worry about disease, aging and useless, these ideas are very unfavorable to mental health.

Therefore, when the elderly notice that the body is not timely, we should stand at the perspective of the elderly to see the problem, start with the physiological characteristics of the elderly, use care, sympathy and easy -to -understand words to explain the relationship between psychology and disease, and seek truth from facts. The elderly explain the condition, which can relieve the fear of fear, thereby solving the doubts of depression in their hearts.

In addition, communicate with the elderly to help them understand new things, maintain optimism, and treat life with a positive attitude.

Of course, according to the elderly's own conditions and interests, they can encourage them to learn and participate in some cultural activities, such as reading, writing, painting, calligraphy, music, dance, gardening, chess, etc., can broaden their horizons, cultivate sentiment, enrich spiritual life life , To reduce the sense of loneliness, emptiness and depression, or effective means of health and fitness.

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2. Outdoor activities

The reduction of interpersonal circles will cause the elderly to reduce the experience of the elderly on the outside world. The life outside the family seems to be unfamiliar, which may give birth to excessive self -protection; on the other hand It feels useless, and it is easier to suspect at home alone.

Therefore, we should encourage the elderly to participate in outdoor activities and communicate more with their peers. This can promote physical and mental pleasure, reduce doubts and concerns about diseases, and control the condition.

3. Drug treatment

If the disease of patients with suspected illness is stubborn, it can also be used to stabilize the condition through drug -assisted therapy outside of psychotherapy.

4. Family support

Family people should always be accompanied by the elderly for the elderly to give confidence and concern to keep patients a happy mood, which is very helpful for relieving the condition [2].

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It is necessary to attach great importance to their physical health, but there is no need to suspect it at will. If you find a suspected condition, you should go to the hospital in time.The old man's body really cannot be compared with when he was young, but his mentality is very important.Optimistic and positive attitudes of life and activities that are good for body and mind have a very important role in promoting the physical and mental health of the elderly.

Author ｜ Beijing Chaoyang Hospital affiliated to Meixue Capital Medical University, chief physician

Audit ｜ Guo Shubin, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital affiliated to the Capital Medical University, chief physician

references

[1] Wang Ziwei. Suspected disease is the natural enemy of the elderly. Xintiandi, 2020,10: 76-77.

[2] Zheng Jinmei. Scientifically cope with the "doubt" of the elderly. Healthy life, 2020, 1: 18-19.

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