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What about osteoporosis in the elderly?
1, Lifestyle adjustment: Unhealthy lifestyles are prone to osteoporosis, including excessive smoking, drinking, excessive intake of caffeinated drinks, carbonated drinks, and taking drugs that affect bone metabolism. No exercise, no sunshine, malnutrition and overnutrition can all lead to osteoporosis. Therefore, we should adjust our lifestyle and avoid unhealthy lifestyles;

2, nutritional supplements: calcium and vitamin D can be supplemented. For example, after osteoporosis in the elderly, the daily intake of calcium needs to reach 800- 1000mg, and the therapeutic dose of vitamin D is 800- 1200IU/ day, which is the basic nutrient intake of osteoporosis. However, calcium supplementation and vitamin D alone can not treat osteoporosis, but can only provide nutrition for bones, and transform these into nutrition to restore bone density, which needs to be treated by some special anti-osteoporosis drugs.

At present, anti-osteoporosis drug treatment is mainly divided into the following categories:

1. Anti-bone resorption drugs: including commonly used bisphosphonates, estrogen receptor modulators and calcitonin;

2. Drugs to promote bone formation: Parathyroid hormone tablets and teriparatide are commonly used now;

3. Some Chinese patent medicines and strontium salts.

The improvement of bone mineral density is mainly through two-way regulation, in which calcitonin drugs can inhibit the activity of osteoclasts and have central analgesic effect. For example, patients with obvious osteoporosis pain can consider calcitonin therapy.