When the temperature is low in winter, some friends will experience symptoms of acute gastroenteritis such as diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and severe gastrointestinal pain, and their digestive function will also become worse. If patients with chronic gastritis do not pay attention to a healthy diet, they can easily develop acute gastroenteritis, causing serious damage to the gastrointestinal tract.
1. Why do gastrointestinal diseases occur more frequently in winter?
Acute gastroenteritis refers to acute inflammation of the gastrointestinal mucosa caused by various reasons. The main clinical manifestations are nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever, etc. After entering winter, not only "old stomach problems" are easy to relapse, but digestive tract discomfort that is not usually a problem can also become a major worry that affects everyone's health. In clinical practice, it has been found that the six main reasons leading to the high incidence of gastrointestinal diseases in winter are as follows.
There are many causes of acute gastroenteritis, the most common one is infectious. Infectious causes include viruses , bacteria , fungi, and parasitic infections. In winter, the temperature changes greatly and the weather is drier. Viruses and bacteria grow and multiply rapidly, and food is easily contaminated. When the human body eats unclean food, some pathogens can easily enter the body, causing viruses or bacteria to spread in the body, thus causing acute gastroenteritis.
2. Cold air stimulation
The temperature difference between morning and evening is large in winter, and cold air activities are frequent, and the temperature suddenly becomes cold. After the human body is stimulated by cold air, gastric acid secretion increases significantly, gastrointestinal spasmodic contraction occurs, resistance is subsequently reduced, leading to the onset of gastritis, gastroduodenal ulcer and the recurrence of the original ulcer disease.
3. Spicy food induces
In the cold winter, people prefer to eat spicy and greasy food, such as hot pot, Malatang, etc. Most people tend to think that these are stomach-warming and stomach-tonifying foods. In fact, spicy, hot and other irritating foods are important factors in inducing gastrointestinal disease.
4. Too much supplementation causes
In winter, people tend to put too much emphasis on supplementation, so they eat too much high-calorie, high-cholesterol foods, and at the same time eat some stews. These stews are often greasy foods. Eating too much will put the gastrointestinal tract in a "vulnerable" state of high-load operation, which can easily cause indigestion, gastrointestinal discomfort and other illnesses.
5. Lack of exercise leads to
cold weather in winter, and people’s outdoor exercise decreases. If the body is not exercised for a long time, it will cause qi and blood to flow poorly and gastrointestinal peristalsis to slow down. Eating a little more can easily cause indigestion, stomach bloating, abdominal distension, gastrointestinal dysfunction and other symptoms.
6. Nervous dysfunction
Due to shortened days and insufficient sunshine in winter, the human body secretes more melatonin, making it difficult to maintain a normal secretion rhythm, leading to brain dysfunction and worsening neurological dysfunction. Mental and neurological dysfunction, as well as the body's allergic (allergic) reaction, can cause acute inflammatory damage to the gastrointestinal mucosa.
2. How to prevent acute gastroenteritis in winter?
The so-called disease comes from the mouth, acute gastroenteritis caused by dietary reasons is the most common. High-temperature sterilization of food before consumption is a reliable method. Generally, meat products can kill common pathogenic bacteria in 15 minutes after boiling. Try not to eat overnight meals and rotten vegetables, pay attention to personal hygiene, wash hands before meals and after going to the toilet, wash fruits, avoid residues of agricultural chemicals, and isolate the stomach from contact with unhygienic food during sensitive seasons. This is the most important concept to prevent acute gastroenteritis.
2. Ensure a moderate diet
Avoid spicy foods, seafood, meat, high-sugar foods, greasy foods and other irritating foods, especially those with allergic constitution and weak gastrointestinal conditions should pay special attention to eating less of these irritating foods in winter. Ensuring a mild and light diet is the most effective way to protect your gastrointestinal tract.In terms of diet, you can eat more foods with the same origin as medicine and food, such as yam, hawthorn, tangerine peel, barley, gorgon fruit, poria, etc. to strengthen the spleen, remove dampness, digestion and stomach. For children and those with weak spleen and stomach, Jiao Sanxian ( Jiao hawthorn , fried Shenqu, fried malt) can be boiled in water to aid digestion.
3. Taboo overeating
Do not drink cold drinks or iced drinks in winter. Maintain regular meals with regular and quantitative meals, which can form a conditioned reflex and help secrete digestive glands , which is more conducive to nourishing and protecting the stomach.
4. Appropriate exercise can please the body and mind
In winter, you can choose warmer weather to go outdoors to participate in jogging, walking, cycling and other pleasurable activities to speed up blood circulation, promote a happy mood, and enhance gastrointestinal motility.
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