Focus on how to take good care of your stomach and check it in winter

  The cold weather in winter, people tend to have a good appetite, eat a lot, so that the burden on the gastrointestinal tract increased. The human body is stimulated by cold, will lead to a large increase in gastric acid secretion, while the gastrointestinal tract spasmodic contraction, resulting in the body’s resistance to reduce, coupled with many people in the winter spicy food, these will lead to new or existing gastric disease recurrence.  Winter stomach maintenance should be mainly from the following aspects: 1, keep the spirit happy whether the stomach health and mental factors have a great relationship. In winter, everything is depressed, it is easy to make people uncomfortable, liver Qi stagnation, which leads to stomach discomfort. Especially the contemporary urban people, facing huge work and mental pressure every day. Long-term tension, fear, sadness, depression, etc. can cause dysfunction of the cerebral cortex, promote vagal nerve dysfunction, resulting in spasmodic contraction of gastrointestinal blood vessels, which in turn induces gastritis, gastric ulcer. Therefore, people should pay attention to mental health in daily life, to maintain a happy spirit and emotional stability, to avoid the stimulation of tension, anxiety, irritation and other adverse emotions.  2, life should be regular A regular life is also very important for gastrointestinal health. In addition to three meals on time, there should be a strict rest and rest system to ensure adequate rest and sleep. Whether it is physical or mental labor overwork will cause insufficient blood supply to the digestive organs, gastric mucosa secretion disorders, which leads to the occurrence of stomach diseases. Therefore, attention should be paid to the combination of work and rest to prevent the health of the gastrointestinal tract from being affected by overexertion.  3, regulate the diet, choose a reasonable type of diet regular meals, regular rationing, can form a conditioned reflex, help the secretion of the digestive glands, more conducive to food digestion. The eating process should be chewed and swallowed slowly to reduce the burden on the stomach and intestines. The more times the food is fully chewed, the more saliva is secreted, which has a protective effect on the gastric mucosa.  Smaller and larger meals can make the stomach often have food and gastric acid neutralization, thereby preventing gastric acid erosion of the gastric mucosa. Never overeat, otherwise it will cause peristaltic dysfunction of the stomach, which in turn makes the vagus nerve and the plexus in the stomach wall hyperfunctional, promoting the secretion of gastric juice, which over time will lead to gastritis or gastric ulcer. In addition, two to three hours before going to sleep are best not to eat, otherwise it is easy to affect sleep, if you feel empty stomach can drink more water.  Food should be warm, soft, light, vegetarian, fresh, too hard, too sticky and fried food should not be eaten, because these things are the most difficult to digest. The spleen of the stomach likes dryness and evil cold, so cold drinks and ice-cream should also be eaten sparingly, and food is better with heat. Soup is best to drink before meals, drinking after meals will also make it difficult to digest food. Steamed buns can nourish the stomach, so try them as a staple food. Honey has the function of inhibiting the secretion of stomach acid and promoting the healing of ulcers. It is important to eat more vegetables and fruits rich in vitamin C. Vitamin C has a protective effect on the stomach. Maintaining a normal level of vitamin C in the gastric juice can effectively perform the function of the stomach, protect the stomach and enhance the stomach’s ability to resist disease.  4, moderate exercise moderate physical exercise can make people happy, enhance physical fitness, improve the body’s ability to resist disease and the ability to adapt to climate change, but also to improve blood circulation in the gastrointestinal tract, promote peristalsis and secretion of the gastrointestinal tract, thus making people physically and mentally healthy. It should be noted that immediately after the meal do not go to exercise, it is best to take a break, and so the stomach food digestion is almost ready to start again, or slow walking, also conducive to digestion.  5, quit smoking and limit alcohol Smoking can make the stomach vasoconstriction, affecting the blood supply of the stomach wall cells, so that the gastric mucosa resistance is reduced and induced gastric disease. Smokers have twice the risk of peptic ulcer, and there is a close relationship with the amount of smoking. Tobacco itself contains a variety of carcinogens such as benzo(a)pyrene, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, dibenzocarbazole, etc. Smokers have a 50% higher incidence of stomach cancer than nonsmokers, and the lower the age of starting to smoke, the higher the mortality rate. Stomach cancer is two to nine times more common in drinkers of strong alcohol than in non-drinkers. Although alcohol itself is not a carcinogen, it can stimulate gastric acid secretion and destroy the gastric mucosal barrier, which is more harmful if drinking alcohol and smoking at the same time. Because alcohol can enhance the permeability of gastric mucosa cell membrane, thus increasing its absorption of carcinogenic substances in smoke.  6, the stomach warm stomach cold will make the stomach function is impaired, therefore, the onset of winter, with the climate change, to add clothes at the right time, sleep well at night bedding, pay attention to the abdomen to keep warm.  As the saying goes, stomach disease should be “three parts treatment and seven parts nourishment”, seven parts nourishment should be carried out on the basis of three parts treatment, and the prerequisite for treatment is to first discover stomach disease, if belching, acid reflux, stomach pain and other symptoms, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible to check, in order to timely detection of organic diseases of the stomach, the stomach disease will be eliminated in the bud.