中西医结合治疗老年功能性便秘的新思路

New Insight on Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in Treating Elderly Functional Constipation

老年功能性便秘是肛肠科临床的常见病和多发病。笔者在分析了刺激性泻药的机制弊端和滥用的现状并对部分肛肠科常用西药和成药的药理作用分析后提出中西医结合治疗,取代刺激性泻药治疗的新思路,以期尽可能地保护老年患者的排便功能,尽可能长时间的自主排便,从而改善老年功能性便秘患者的生存质量。

Elderly functional constipation is supposed to be a common disorder in the anorectum clinic.The aim of this article was to discuss defect and abuse of purgatives nowadays,and then to put a new insight on traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine instead of purgatives through analysing the pharmacological action of common drugs.That’s for protecting defecation function and spontaneous bowel of elderly patients as far as possible.And it could be improved concerning quality of life in those people.