For patients with gastrointestinal problems, drinking congee can easily lead to increased gastrointestinal burden and increase the likelihood of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
1. Increased gastrointestinal burden: In general, porridge after a long time after cooking, its nutrients will be lost, if it contains indigestible food, it will increase the gastric discomfort. At the same time, porridge is not conducive to the promotion of oral salivary secretion with the role of helping digestion, is also not conducive to digestion, so part of the population drink easy to aggravate the burden on the stomach and intestines.
2. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD): If gastrointestinal discomfort is caused by GERD, porridge is not suitable. Because the porridge is liquid state, will change with the position change, suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease patients in porridge, more likely due to the lower esophageal sphincter relaxation and make the porridge reflux into the esophagus, so as to aggravate the number of times gastroesophageal reflux disease occurs.
If the patient has gastrointestinal diseases, it is recommended to have standardized treatment as early as possible in order to reduce the adverse effects of the disease.