In our daily life, our stomach always has one thing or another [discomfort].
The following 5 secrets can help us maintain gastrointestinal health and reduce gastrointestinal discomfort and the occurrence of gastrointestinal diseases.
Tip One: Quit Smoking and Alcohol
If the alcohol content in the alcoholic beverage is above 20 and drinks more than 100 ml per hour, gastric mucosa will be damaged.
Then it may lead to congestion and erosion of gastric mucosa and even ulcer.
Smoking will not only directly damage gastric mucosa, but also damage gastric microvessels, leaving gastric mucosa in a [anoxic] state for a long time.
In general, smoking increases the risk of gastric ulcer, chronic gastritis and gastroesophageal reflux disease.
For the sake of your health and that of your family, quit smoking and drinking as early as possible.
Tip 2: Chew slowly
If you swallow the food in your mouth before it is chewed, it will increase the burden on your stomach.
If you eat too fast, you will swallow too much gas, resulting in discomfort such as stomach distension. It is also easy to burn oral cavity and esophageal mucosa, laying hidden dangers for oral cancer and esophageal cancer.
When eating, we can consciously remind ourselves [chew a few more times before swallowing], and slowly we can form the habit.
Tip 3: Pay Attention to Food Hygiene
We often say that [diseases come from the mouth], paying attention to some food hygiene details can help us to prevent gastrointestinal diseases well.
For example:
Insist on washing hands before meals and after defecation;
Raw and cooked dishes are cooked separately.
Refrigerated overnight vegetables should be fully heated before eating.
Don’t eat moldy food, etc.
You know, Helicobacter pylori infection is an important cause of many stomach diseases. At present, the main transmission routes of this bacterium are fecal-oral transmission and oral transmission.
Therefore, if there is a baby in the family (especially a baby under the age of 5), TA should be given a separate tableware, and at the same time avoid feeding chewed food to the baby and not kissing TA’s lips, thus reducing the risk of Helicobacter pylori infection.
Tip 4: Light Diet
High-salt diet refers to eating foods with high salt content.
High-salt diet is not only bad for cardiovascular system, but also has great influence on stomach. Long-term high-salt diet may lead to [atrophy-intestinal metaplasia-neoplasia-canceration] of gastric mucosa.
If you want to nourish your stomach, try to eat less pickles and other high-salt processed foods and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits.
Tip 5: Make a Good Diet Record
Everyone’s gastrointestinal tract has different degrees of acceptance of different foods. Some people are completely free from hot pot, while others will have stomachs.
At ordinary times, you can pay attention to what kind of food you eat that will make you uncomfortable, record it and eat as little as possible in the future.
For discomfort such as stomachache and distension, many people hold the attitude of “endure it once and then pass it over” and “endure it for a while and then get over it”, so that the minor illness is finally dragged into a serious illness.
Attention should be paid to the fact that if stomach discomfort occurs repeatedly for a long time and gradually worsens, you must go to the hospital in time.