Lychee, a kind of oval shape, red shell, full of small nails fruit, open the shell inside is white flesh, the flesh is also wrapped in a small black core, bite, tender and crisp, sweet and refreshing, deeply loved by people.
It's just that "people are popular right and wrong", recently Xiao Li saw a six-year-old child on the news after eating more than 20 lychees in one go, fainted, frightened the adults, and was diagnosed with hypoglycemia. This kind of disease that causes dizziness, fatigue, pallor, palpitations, cold sweat and other symptoms of hypoglycemia after eating a large amount of fresh lychee is also called lychee disease. In severe cases, convulsions, coma, miosis, and even life-threatening cases occur.
1. How can such a sweet fruit as hypoglycemia, lychee, and lychee cause hypoglycemia?
According to studies, fresh lychee is rich in hypoglycine and methylene cyclopropylglycine, which can hinder the formation of glucose in the body by inhibiting the metabolism of digestive enzymes and inhibiting the oxidation of gluconeogenesis and fatty acids in the liver.
Especially for children, the storage of glycogen in the liver in the body of children is low, and the glycogen reserves themselves are easy to deplete if they are fasted for a long time. In addition, eating a large amount of fresh lychee promotes the further secretion of insulin, resulting in the inability to replenish glucose in time, thus causing hypoglycemia.
2. How to eat lychees correctly and healthily?
(1) Select cooked lychees to eat, avoid eating raw lychees: unripe lychees, hypoglycine and methylene cyclopropylglycine have higher content, which is easier to inhibit glucose synthesis and induce hypoglycemia.
(2) Do not take lychee as the only food for a meal, avoid eating lychee on an empty stomach, and eat some carbohydrate-rich foods at the same time or before and after eating lychee, which can effectively reduce the occurrence of hypoglycemia.
(3) Control the amount of lychee: The recommended per capita fruit intake in the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents is: 200-350 grams. It is recommended to eat about five.
3. What should I do if lychee disease occurs, symptoms of hypoglycemia?
More than 15g of glucose or sugary drinks should be taken immediately, if symptoms do not relieve after 15 minutes, it can be repeated, and if it still recurs, it should be sent to the hospital immediately for injection of glucose solution. For patients with litchi disease coma, they should immediately call 120 for help to avoid self-taking food to induce misaping.
For lychees that are "popular and not many", as long as we eat them correctly, do not treat lychees as the only food for a meal, fasting, eat lychees in large quantities, and lychee disease will not find us.
Author: Liu Sixue
Source: Xuanwu Puwai