How long can an 80-year old female survive with no food or drink?!


Question: How long can an 80-year old female survive with no food or drink!?
My mother had a fall last month and has completely stopped eating or drinking!. She won't take her meds either!. She is a renal patient and is still being diaylzed via peritoneal!. Dr!. said IV would be long-term hospitalization, PEG tube would compromise her catheter (risk of infection) and NG tube, she would have a risk of aphyxiation!. We tried this in the hospital and she kept pulling it out!. She coughed up blood!. She had to be tied!. She had a hematoma due to the fall!. She was also due cataract surgery in September!. She has given up!. She just got out of the hospital yesterday!. Between hospitalization for the fall and rehab (where she got peritonitis), it has been 23 days!. She will not open her mouth!.Www@Answer-Health@Com


Answers:
I'm sorry for what you're going through!.

If she isn't eating or drinking you need to take her to her doctor or to the ER because she needs to be on IV fluids!. Basically she is starving herself and will die without medical intervention within a week or two!.

Does she live on her own!? Maybe your doctor can recommend a good nursing home or assisted living facility that will give her some new friends and encourage her to want to live!.

Good luck!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

She must have been getting fluids through an IV while she slept, because a human cannot survive without water after 4 days!.

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