1, How to prevent stomach trouble by keeping in good health in winter
When autumn and winter alternate every year, it is often characterized by dry climate and frequent weather changes, and it is also the high incidence period of various stomach diseases such as gastric ulcer, gastritis and gastric neurosis. So, how to prevent stomach problems in winter health care?
1. Eat warm food. In winter, in order to maintain a certain amount of heat, the human body must increase the decomposition of sugar, fat, protein and other substances to generate more energy to meet the needs of the body. Diets should be supplemented with thermogenic nutrients, such as carbohydrate, fat and protein, to improve the body's tolerance to low temperature. In addition, the spleen and stomach like dryness and hate cold, so eat more food that warms the stomach, such as beef, mutton and leeks.
2. Three meals are regularly quantified. In winter, the days are short and the nights are long. Many people will change three meals a day into two meals and increase their appetite. This is not recommended. It is easy to cause gastric acid secretion disorder and damage gastric mucosa. Three meals a day should be regularly quantified. The energy distribution of three meals should be 30%, 40% and 30%, with breakfast at 6: 30 ~ 8: 30, lunch11:30 ~13: 30 and dinner 18: 00 ~ 20: 00.
3. Eat more stew and less cold salad. Winter is very cold, and many people like to eat hot food. The human esophageal wall is composed of mucous membrane, which is very fragile and can only tolerate food at 50 ~ 60℃. If the temperature exceeds this temperature, the esophageal mucosa will be scalded. Too cold food into the stomach will stimulate the gastric mucosa and cause stomach problems, which is also not conducive to keeping warm. Therefore, the food in winter should be mainly warm, eat more stews and stir-fry, eat less cold salad and drink soup instead of cooking it.
Step 4 chew slowly. Some people go home from work in the cold outdoors. When they see hot food, they immediately serve it and gobble it up. However, a large number of fast food in a short period of time, food that is not chewed enough can not be fully mixed with gastrointestinal liquid phase in the stomach, which directly affects its digestion and absorption, and it is easy to overeat and exceed the stomach capacity. Chewing slowly is beneficial to the uniform mixing of food and gastric juice, promoting digestion and absorption, and the absorption rate of some nutrients in food can be increased by about 10%. It is recommended to chew every bite of food 30 times, and each meal should be no less than 20 minutes.
5. Drink a cup of warm water before meals. The best time to drink water is when you get up on an empty stomach in the morning, one hour before each meal. Drinking water immediately after a meal will dilute gastric juice, and soaking in rice will also affect digestion.
6. Take a walk indoors after supper. In winter, you can take a walk after a meal indoors. Don't leave immediately after a meal, and then leave after 20 to 30 minutes. "Take a hundred steps after a meal" is only suitable for people who are usually inactive, fat or have too much stomach acid. Elderly people with cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and arteriosclerosis should not "walk in a hundred steps" immediately after meals.
7. Wear a cotton vest. Cold in winter will slow down the activity of the stomach or cause stomach cramps, and also easily lead to "irritable bowel syndrome", leading to diarrhea, fatigue and general weakness. You must warm your stomach in winter. You can wear a warm vest to give your stomach a warm environment.
8. Keep a good mood. Many people have had the experience of having a stomachache when they are angry. Depression and anger damage the liver, and liver qi invades the stomach, which can cause gastrointestinal diseases such as epigastric pain, vomiting and diarrhea. So keep your mood stable and happy. Shortening sunshine in winter is easy to get depressed, so it is recommended to keep exercising and go outdoors to bask in the sun as much as possible.
9. Be more careful when taking medicine. First of all, many drugs are irritating to the gastric mucosa, which will damage the gastric mucosa and even cause ulcers. Be careful. For temporary gastrointestinal dysfunction, it is also inappropriate to take antibiotics, spasmolytics and antidiarrheal drugs at will. Second, the medication time must be chosen correctly. Drugs to protect gastric mucosa and gastric motility are suitable for taking half an hour before meals, and acidic inhibitors such as cimetidine are best taken with meals. Drugs for neutralizing gastric acid, including sodium bicarbonate and aluminum hydroxide, can be taken after meals 1 hour.
10. Pay attention to oral hygiene. Helicobacter pylori (HP) is the chief culprit of stomach diseases, which mainly comes from unclean oral cavity and is stored in large quantities on dental plaque. When the body's resistance drops, Helicobacter pylori is easy to cause the occurrence or recurrence of stomach diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to change the toothbrush frequently and insist on gargling correctly after every meal.
2. What are the symptoms of stomach trouble?
1, gastric cancer ulceration causes epigastric pain, gastrointestinal bleeding, perforation and so on. The pain of gastric cancer is often biting pain, which is not clearly related to eating or aggravated after eating. Some pains like peptic ulcer can be relieved by eating or antacids, which can last for a long time, and then the pain will gradually worsen and last. Cancer bleeding is characterized by positive stool occult blood test, hematemesis or black stool, 5% patients have massive bleeding, and some even seek medical treatment for the first time because of acute abdomen such as gastric cancer bleeding or perforation.
2. Symptoms caused by mechanical effects of gastric cancer, such as fullness and heaviness caused by poor stomach filling, as well as tasteless, anorexia, pain, nausea and vomiting. Gastric cancer located near cardia can invade esophagus, causing cough and dysphagia, and located near pylorus can cause pyloric obstruction.
3. Energy consumption and metabolic disorders caused by cancer proliferation lead to low resistance, malnutrition and vitamin deficiency, which are manifested as fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, emaciation, anemia, edema, fever, constipation, dry skin and hair loss.
4. Symptoms caused by the spread and metastasis of cancer, such as ascites, hepatomegaly, jaundice and metastasis of lung, brain, heart, prostate, ovary and bone marrow, cause corresponding symptoms.