Stomach discomfort, need to avoid food.
Raw, cold, hot, sticky, hard, rough and irritating foods should be avoided.
Only by drinking porridge and eating vegetarian food can one nourish one’s stomach.
Is the above the consensus of many people?
Nutritionist Wang Xingguo wants to correct this misunderstanding.
My stomach is uncomfortable, but I don’t need to avoid it specially.
Based on professional research and more than 20 years of clinical nutrition work, he would like to talk to readers and friends about [taboos].
The vicious circle of stomach trouble…
When gastrointestinal diseases occur, it is bound to affect food digestion and nutrition intake.
As far as patients with chronic gastritis and ulcer are concerned, they are often caught in a dilemma:
Gastropathy does not heal, abdominal pain, discomfort, so don’t want to eat, eat less, resulting in insufficient nutrition.
However, eliminating infection and filling ulcer foci need adequate nutrition supply, and insufficient nutrition intake is of course not conducive to the improvement of the disease. As a result, the stomach continues to feel uncomfortable and cannot eat well.
This forms a vicious circle.
To some extent, the treatment of gastropathy must break this vicious circle so that patients can take in sufficient nutrition and speed up the healing of gastropathy.
Do you really need to nourish your stomach? Do you really need to avoid eating?
Not really.
Most patients with chronic gastritis and ulcer have many taboos. Raw, cold, hot, sticky, hard, rough and irritating foods are all taboos.
Many patients are still afraid of eating this and that without any adverse reactions (such as abdominal pain, discomfort or abdominal distension). Only choose porridge, steamed bread and vegetarian food, hard rice, meat and cold drink lettuce, and do not touch them.
Worse still, some patients do not actively seek drug treatment, but want to avoid stomach discomfort by eating well-digested food alone.
In fact, doing so is not only not conducive to the treatment of chronic gastritis and ulcer, but also not conducive to the rehabilitation of chronic gastritis and ulcer due to malnutrition.
Why don’t you have too many taboos?
This starts with the medical profession’s understanding of chronic gastritis and ulcer.
Before the 1990s, doctors generally believed that:
The protective function of gastric mucosa to stomach is damaged, which is the most important pathogenic factor of chronic gastritis and ulcer.
Therefore, [caring for gastric mucosa] has become an important therapeutic principle. People naturally think that cold, hot, rough, hard and irritating food will harm gastric mucosa, so they should eat less or even not!
However, with the deepening of understanding, we already know that Helicobacter pylori infection is the main culprit of many chronic stomach diseases.
What is important is to eradicate Helicobacter pylori, and food has no what relationship with its infection. Moreover, the aforementioned food will not harm gastric mucosa.
Therefore, it is quite unnecessary to avoid eating.
Too many taboos will easily lead to malnutrition, which will do more harm than good and do more harm than good.
More exercise makes you healthy, and so does your stomach.
People’s stomach and intestines also need [exercise]. It is actually beneficial to eat some raw, cold, hot, hard, rough or irritating food properly.
Attention [Appropriate]. It has two meanings-
On the one hand, the premise is not to aggravate the symptoms of stomach discomfort, that is, the gastrointestinal tract is acceptable.
However, on the other hand, if eating only a little irritating food, such as raw vegetables, will cause stomach pain, it means that gastritis or gastric ulcer symptoms are more serious, and drugs need to be taken or adjusted to strengthen treatment, instead of relying solely on [taboos] to avoid pain.
On the other hand, this [exercise] should be aimed at increasing nutrient intake.
For example, you can eat some raw fresh vegetables or melons and fruits, and coarse grains and beans can also be eaten.
However, don’t stimulate for the sake of stimulation. It is not enough to eat ice cream, drink raw water, wolf down and eat until you support it.
Finally, to sum up.
Friends of chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer and other old stomach diseases, when choosing food, as long as it does not aggravate pain or other symptoms (you will know after trying it), do not need to have many taboos, but should choose all kinds of food as much as possible to meet the requirements of balanced diet.
In actual work, those who use drugs rationally to control symptoms such as pain, scientifically eliminate bacterial infection, and eat a balanced diet are usually the people who recover the fastest and have the best therapeutic effect.