Eating lychee incorrectly, will it be life-threatening?
It's true!
Recently, lychees have begun to go on the market, and it is false to say that they are not hungry.
Especially a short video, all of them are pictures of peeling lychees, crystal clear white flesh suddenly bursts out, and you can feel the fragrance across the screen.
A mouthful of lychee into the mouth, the sweet juice of lychee explodes in the mouth, how cool that is!
No wonder there is a situation like "a red dust concubine laughs, no one knows that it is a lychee".
I believe that seeing this, many people began to move and plan to place orders.
But today I will remind everyone: although lychees are good, they cannot be eaten presumptuously.
Especially families with children, pay extra attention!
In recent years, many children have died of "lychee disease", and there are even more small problems.
In June last year, the news that an 8-year-old girl in Hebei had been in the hospital for eating lychees was on the screen for a long time.
Not only domestically, India once caused 103 children to die because of lychees, researchers from the well-known medical journal The Lancet, as well as officials from the Indian Ministry of Health, all believe that the cause of their deaths was eating too much lychee, which caused encephalitis.
A doctor in a hospital in Guangxi once counted that during the lychee market season of a certain year, 71 children with lychee disease were treated in 2 months, aged 2 to 10, of which 10 children died.
Ma Ya, lychee turned out to be so terrible? Sweet it turned out to be comparable to poison?
Can you still eat lychees?
Sure, but be methodical!
In fact, what we call "lychee disease" generally refers to the phenomenon of coma, hypoglycemia and other phenomena caused by excessive consumption of lychee once or continuously, also known as "hypoglycemia".
Wait, many people will wonder when they hear this, isn't lychee very sweet, how can it be low blood sugar after eating?
According to research, there could be two reasons:
First, because the fructose content in lychee is relatively high, which can reach about 16%:
When the body is on an empty stomach, blood sugar is at a low level. Suddenly eating a lot of lychees, a large amount of fructose into the body, will stimulate pancreatic islet B cells to secrete a large amount of insulin (insulin is responsible for transporting glucose in the blood to the cells).
The sudden rise of insulin will make the liver misunderstand that the human blood sugar is too high, quickly open the hypoglycemic mode (accelerate the application of glucose and inhibit the production of glucose), so that the human body, which is already low in blood sugar, enter a state of serious blood sugar deficiency...
The second is that lychee contains two toxins, hypoglycin A and MCPG
These two toxins are found in high amounts in immature lychees, resulting in insufficient glucose production in the body, which predisposes to acute hypoglycemia and explosive encephalopathy.
Therefore, "lychee disease" is more common in people who eat lychees on an empty stomach or eat a large amount of lychees without control.
"Lychee disease" is generally manifested as dizziness, sweating, pallor, fatigue, drowsiness, palpitations, cold limbs and other symptoms.
Individual severe patients will have arrhythmia, consciousness trance, convulsions, etc., and if the treatment is not timely, it will even be life-threatening.
Children are prone to hypoglycemia after eating a large amount of lychees because of insufficient reserves of liver glycogen itself.
In recent years, the proportion of children with lychee disease is also very large.
It should also be noted that there is also a potential risk of choking when children at younger ages eat lychees.
It is best for pregnant women to consume no more than 200 grams a day.
Because lychees are too sweet, eating too much will cause high blood sugar and even sugar metabolism disorders. As a result, the risk of obstructed labour is greatly increased.
Note that pregnant mothers with gestational diabetes are not allowed to consume it.
Patients with hypoglycemia themselves have low blood sugar, and if they eat lychees in large quantities, they are more likely to have hypoglycemia.
Not to mention diabetics, lychees with such a high sugar content are naturally recommended to stay away.
The traffic police have done an experiment, and immediately after eating lychees, a breath alcohol content test is performed, and the readings shown can indeed meet the standard for drunk driving.
This is because when lychee is plucked from the tree, photosynthesis decreases, and the cells inside the lychee will be deprived of oxygen, increasing the rate of anaerobic respiration, resulting in a faster rate of ethanol production.
In the process of eating lychees, many enzymes in the mouth will break down the sugar of lychees, break down alcohol, and ferment quickly in the mouth.
However, as long as you take a little rest after eating lychees, the alcohol will dissipate.
However, if you don't want to oolong, it's best not to eat lychees when driving.
Su Shi Shiyun, "300 lychees in the sun, do not hesitate to be a Lingnanian".
But poetry is poetry, if you really eat like this, it is estimated that there will be no one in Lingnan.
The "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" suggests that you should eat 200~350 grams of fresh fruit every day.
This may be a bit abstract, because lychees have a high sugar content, plus there will be other fruits intake every day, so according to the normal size of lychees, adults generally 10 is almost the same, children do not exceed 5 at a time.
There are also some tips for eating lychees, which I recommend you collect for later:
1. Eat well-cooked lychees;
2. Do not eat lychees on an empty stomach or when you are hungry for a long time;
3. It is best to consume half an hour after meals;
4. Patients suffering from tonsillitis, laryngitis, and constipation should eat with caution;
5. While eating lychees, you can drink some light salt water.
If you do this, you can enjoy the deliciousness of lychees~