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Suggest Medication For Bloating, Constipation And Swollen Legs
Question: Hi Doctor
My dad, 90 years old
suffering with Gas, Bloating, constipation and legs swelling problem
Could you please advise the counter medicines to try
My dad, 90 years old
suffering with Gas, Bloating, constipation and legs swelling problem
Could you please advise the counter medicines to try
Brief Answer:
Take rabeprazole, domperidone and simethicone
Detailed Answer:
Hello! Thanks for putting your query in HCM. I am a Gastroenterologist.
I appreciate your concerns regarding your father. For bloating and gas I will advise him:
1. Avoid food that increase gas like beans, pulses, cabbage, peas
2. Avid food that increase acid productions like tea, coffee, citrus and spicy and fatty food
3. See if milk make your symptoms worse then please avoid it
4. Take capsule containing simethicone
5. Also take a proton pump inhibitor like rabeprazole along with a prokinetic agent like domepridone
For Constipation: Take lots of fibres and fluid in his diet. May add one laxative like syrup polyethylene glycol 2 tsf at night time and titrate its dose according to the response
For leg Swelling: Few tests are required like Haemoglobin level, Serum albumin, serum proteins, Serum creatinine. Get cardiac and chest examination by a doctor. And then it is to be treated accordingly
I hope I have answered you query. Wish you a good health
Take rabeprazole, domperidone and simethicone
Detailed Answer:
Hello! Thanks for putting your query in HCM. I am a Gastroenterologist.
I appreciate your concerns regarding your father. For bloating and gas I will advise him:
1. Avoid food that increase gas like beans, pulses, cabbage, peas
2. Avid food that increase acid productions like tea, coffee, citrus and spicy and fatty food
3. See if milk make your symptoms worse then please avoid it
4. Take capsule containing simethicone
5. Also take a proton pump inhibitor like rabeprazole along with a prokinetic agent like domepridone
For Constipation: Take lots of fibres and fluid in his diet. May add one laxative like syrup polyethylene glycol 2 tsf at night time and titrate its dose according to the response
For leg Swelling: Few tests are required like Haemoglobin level, Serum albumin, serum proteins, Serum creatinine. Get cardiac and chest examination by a doctor. And then it is to be treated accordingly
I hope I have answered you query. Wish you a good health
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