Other gastrointestinal patients should not drink more porridge for four reasons: 1. Don't chew slowly: when your stomach is upset, chew slowly, not only because it looks good, but also because it can mix food with saliva and make food easier to digest in your stomach. When drinking porridge, you can't chew slowly, and food can't be evenly mixed with digestive juice, which is not conducive to digestion. 2. There is more water in the porridge: Because there is more water in the porridge, the digestive juice secreted by the oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract will be diluted, so the food will not be digested in time, and the movement of the stomach of people with poor gastrointestinal function will also slow down, further aggravating the burden on the stomach.
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Porridge is acidic: eating too well or eating too full will stimulate the stomach to secrete a lot of gastric acid, and the number of patients with reflux esophagitis will increase greatly. For this part of patients, it is not suitable to drink porridge to nourish the stomach, because porridge is acidic, and continuing to drink porridge will undoubtedly make matters worse. Many patients with superficial gastritis drink porridge for a long time because they believe that porridge nourishes the stomach, which eventually leads to reflux esophagitis and even serious esophageal erosion.
4. Drinking porridge inhibits the secretion of amylase: Amylase in human saliva is an important substance that can promote digestion. If people don't chew when eating, the salivary glands in the mouth will not secrete a lot of saliva, so there will not be enough amylase. Drinking porridge regularly will inhibit the secretion of amylase, which is also not conducive to the digestion of food. To sum up, porridge is a good health care product, but people with bad stomach can't be blind.