With the advent of summer, the temperature rises, all kinds of gastrointestinal diseases have entered a high incidence period.
Mr. Wang often dined with friends recently, and one day after work, he met several colleagues to drink cold beer and eat barbecue, and after the meal, Mr. Wang went home and fell asleep. At 3 a.m., a pain in the abdomen woke Mr. Wang up, followed by diarrhea, about 10 times watery stools, accompanied by vomiting symptoms, accompanied by family members to the emergency department, Mr. Wang was diagnosed with acute gastroenteritis.
The main reason for Mr. Wang’s illness was unclean diet and eating too cold, so it seems that people should indeed be alert to gastrointestinal diseases in the summer while having a good meal. According to the author: into the summer, the hot weather not only makes people’s appetite drop, but also makes people’s resistance has been reduced. Especially recently, the temperature difference between morning and evening, when the body’s resistance is reduced, often to all kinds of pathogenic bacteria to take advantage of the opportunity. In order to relieve the summer heat, people taste iced watermelon, eat cold food, like to go out to eat, and even eat at roadside stalls. In this way, gastrointestinal diseases are most likely to take advantage of the situation, resulting in damage to the gastrointestinal tract and even inducing acute gastroenteritis. So how to prevent summer gastroenteritis?
The key is to keep the disease from the mouth, prevention in the first place. In the summer, the temperature is high, the leftovers are easily contaminated with bacteria, improper preservation is very easy to deteriorate, which often brings hidden health risks to people, so should not eat overnight vegetables; raw fruits and vegetables, should be washed and peeled; do cold dishes, the dishes must be washed; used to cut cooked food knife, plate, and cut raw meat, lettuce separate; do not eat food from unlicensed stalls to avoid food poisoning.
Secondly, we should be alert to “refrigerator gastroenteritis”. After the summer, people over-reliance on the refrigerator, greedy for cold drinks, is also the digestive system health “enemy”. People are accustomed to the refrigerator as a food “safe”, in the refrigerator long-term storage of a large amount of food, and do not regularly clean the refrigerator. I do not know, food in the refrigerator for too long, all kinds of bacteria, especially E. coli will breed in the wet and cold environment. People take out food that eat, bacteria will invade the gastrointestinal cause “refrigerator gastroenteritis”. In the summer, all kinds of chilled drinks and cold drinks are the favorite of many people. Although chilled beverages are cold and refreshing, the cold stimulus will lead to sudden vasoconstriction of the gastrointestinal tract and reduced blood flow, resulting in spasmodic contraction of the gastrointestinal tract, causing abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Acute gastroenteritis is divided into infectious and non-infectious, and infectious is divided into bacterial and viral. When there is severe abdominal pain, vomiting, drainage like stools and other symptoms should promptly go to the hospital. In addition, if the abdominal pain is severe should not take strong analgesics, so as not to cover up the condition and delay treatment. Because although analgesics stop the abdominal pain, they have no therapeutic effect on the actual condition. If strong analgesics are used, the patient will not feel the abdominal pain, and if poisoning occurs leading to intestinal obstruction, it will be life-threatening. The more serious cases also need to be isolated for observation.
Here to remind the general public, the refrigerator to keep frozen food to pay attention to the temperature control at 4 ℃ or less, the best time not to exceed 24 hours. When eating again must be heated, generally more than 70 degrees Celsius, bacteria can be killed, so the dishes must be cooked and burned thoroughly before eating. In addition, to ensure a balanced nutrition, but also pay attention to the cooking method of light, eat more easily digestible food, less fried, fried food. Each meal should not be too full, especially the elderly and children’s digestive function is weak, each meal to eat seven or eight minutes full is appropriate. In summer, when you sweat a lot, you should drink lotus seed soup, mung bean soup and adzuki bean soup, which can detoxify your stomach and prevent heat.