A friend and Huazi said that their stomach is not good, the past two months or so three meals a day have been drinking porridge to nourish the stomach, and after drinking porridge will also feel more comfortable in the stomach. But now eating some normal meals will cause stomach pain, and the body will lose a lot of weight, what is wrong?
Hanako said he had entered a common stomach-feeding misunderstanding. Many people think that drinking porridge, eating noodles, and drinking milk can nourish the stomach, but in fact, these dietary methods do not nourish the stomach, but will make the digestive function worse.
First, the effect of drinking porridge on the stomach
Since ancient times, rice porridge has been a common "standard diet" for people who are sick, believing that drinking rice porridge can promote physical recovery. In fact, this is the result of history, because in ancient and modern times, the material conditions are poor, the vast majority of people are in a state of not having enough to eat, and drinking a bowl of rice porridge when they are sick can indeed enhance nutrition and promote recovery.
But now the standard of living has improved significantly, basically no one can't eat enough, everyone only has the problem of overnutrition, and drinking porridge is not of much help to the disease.
After a long period of boiling, starchy foods such as rice porridge and noodles will produce a phenomenon of "gelatinization" and become easier for the human body to absorb, from this point of view, the burden on the digestive system can be reduced. However, rice porridge does not need to be chewed, the mouth lacks stimulation, and the secretion of salivary amylase will be reduced, which will weaken the digestive function.
Long-term consumption of rice porridge, noodles and other foods that are easily absorbed is equivalent to excessive "coddling" of the digestive system, so that the gastrointestinal tract becomes "not like to work", and the digestive function will be further degraded. Moreover, starchy foods also stimulate gastric acid secretion, which is more likely to damage the gastric mucosa and esophagus. Therefore, drinking porridge and eating noodles for a long time not only cannot nourish the stomach, but may hurt the stomach.
Second, drinking milk can relieve pain but not nourish the stomach
Many people have had the experience that when the stomach hurts, drink a cup of hot milk, or drink hot porridge, the stomach will be more comfortable and become less painful. But after a while, the stomach will hurt again. This is because milk and hot porridge will neutralize stomach acid after drinking, warm and stomach warming, promote blood circulation, so it will relieve pain.
However, milk also contains more protein, as well as fat, which will stimulate the secretion of pepsin and gastric acid, so the long-term effect of drinking milk will aggravate the damage to the gastric mucosa. In the same way, hot porridge will promote the secretion of stomach acid, but also aggravate the damage to the gastric mucosa. So for the occasional stomach pain, this method can be used to relieve pain, but for frequent stomach pain, it is not suitable.
Third, nourishing the stomach requires a balanced diet
Rice porridge and noodles have a single nutritional content, and from a long-term point of view, they are not suitable for nourishing the stomach. Therefore, people with bad stomach are not recommended to drink porridge for a long time. You can steam a little softer rice, add oats, red beans, mung beans, coix seeds, corn, etc., to make a multigrain rice. With some vegetables, meat and other foods, when eating, chew more to promote the secretion of saliva, but also to reduce the burden on the stomach.
People with a bad stomach can eat less and eat more appropriately. However, eating more will also stimulate the secretion of stomach acid, and the more reasonable way is to change the daily three meals to five meals.
People with severe stomach pain symptoms should not only believe in the method of feeding and nourishing the stomach, but also need to use corresponding drugs under the guidance of a doctor to control the symptoms, supplemented by dietary adjustments, in order to raise the stomach well.
To sum up, stomach diseases need to be nourished, but long-term drinking porridge, eating noodles is not the right way to nourish the stomach, long-term eating easy to digest food is easy to cause digestive function degradation, balanced diet can protect our stomach. If the stomach symptoms are severe, it is necessary to use drugs for treatment under the guidance of a doctor. I am a pharmacist Huazi, welcome to follow me and share more health knowledge.