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Xu Li is a small stall owner, every day to get up early and greedy, the wind and the sun, fortunately diligent and duty, selling vegetables is never short of catties or two, old customers often patronize her business, knowing that Xu Li alone to pull his son to grow up is not easy. Although the days are hard, her son will graduate next year, and he can be regarded as staying through the end, and he can help her share it in the future.
On April 12, 2021, since there were no guests at noon, Xu Li planned to eat two bites of food to fill his stomach immediately. I bow my head to eat. A customer came over and asked Xu Li how to sell cabbage. Xu Li choked, immediately drank water and swallowed it, and then began to cough wildly. The customer hurriedly said that he was embarrassed, and Xu Li waved his hand to signal, it's okay. It was she who ate it herself too quickly.
Because the cough was too severe, stomach acid gushed into the esophagus, and the throat was hot, Xu Li kept drinking water to suppress the pain, but there was always a foreign body in the throat, and it slowly disappeared with time, so Xu Li didn't take it to heart. In fact, gastroesophageal reflux disease, due to poor cardia contraction at the end of the esophagus, or high gastric pressure, will lead to gastric acid reflux into the esophagus, gastric acid irritation, gastric acid reflux stimulates the lower pharyngeal laryngeal mucosa and causes the throat to have a foreign body sensation, phlegm, constant throat clearing, hoarseness, acid reflux, heartburn, hiccups and other symptoms.
In June 2022, when Xu Li was having lunch with her son, she suddenly choked, and her son immediately poured water for Xu Li when he saw this. The son cared about Xu Li and asked her to eat slowly, Xu Li said that because there would be customers to buy vegetables at all times, she could not delay business, so she developed the habit of eating quickly.
On March 12, 2022, Xu Li found that she always had difficulty swallowing when eating, she thought about it, could it be that the rice she had cooked recently was too hard, and then she deliberately cooked it softly and the same, and the symptoms were alleviated when she saw it, and she didn't take it to heart. After that, Xu Li would always choke on eating, but Xu Li felt that it was a small problem, she could still eat anyway, and she was used to being diligent and thrifty, so she didn't go to the hospital to see a minor illness by herself.
On June 21, 2022, Xu Li found himself choking even when he drank water. Xu Li finally felt that something was wrong, the water was liquid, so how could she feel choked when drinking water? Recalling that her food had changed from hard to soft to now it was difficult to drink water, she felt a sigh in her heart, and immediately packed up her things and went to the hospital for treatment.
After the doctor learned about Xu Li's symptoms, he suspected that Xu Li had esophageal cancer. Because the special manifestation of esophageal cancer is progressive dysphagia. Immediately arranged for Xu Li to go for an examination. CT scan of the chest and abdomen showed that "the wall of the lower esophagus was eccentric and irregularly thickened, and the gastroscopy showed that the esophagus was 35-40cm away from the incisors, and the mucosa around the circumferential esophagus was red, the surface was uneven, and the NBI observation was brown. Pathological biopsy showed high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia of the esophageal squamous epithelium.
Esophageal cancer, also known as esophageal cancer, refers to malignant tumors of esophageal epithelial origin. Early symptoms are subtle, but there may be varying degrees of discomfort when swallowing coarse, hard foods, including choking on swallowed food, slow passage of food, and a sense of stagnation or foreign body. Stagnant infarction usually resolves with swallowing water. The typical symptom of esophageal cancer is progressive dysphagia, which is difficult to swallow dry food, then semi-liquid food, and finally water and saliva.
When Xu Li heard the doctor's notice, the whole person was stunned, as if there was a thunder flashing in her mind, she didn't expect her life to finally improve, the hemp rope is always broken in thin places, and bad luck picks the hard-working people. He anxiously asked the doctor, "How could I get cancer?" I don't smoke or drink," he said, covering his face with his hands and crying bitterly.
After Xu Li calmed down, the doctor said: "It's not only drinking alcohol and smoking that causes cancer, for esophageal cancer, like to eat too hot food, eat too fast, and eat rough food, which can easily irritate the esophageal mucosa and cause cancer. ”
Xu Li remembered that he was used to ignoring the hot food and quickly finished the meal, and it turned out that there were hidden dangers planted at that time.
The doctor told Xu Li that the prognosis of esophageal cancer is not good, and after surgery, it needs to be treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Thinking that he hadn't seen his son get married, how could Xu Li leave with confidence, so he accepted the doctor's advice. The operation and chemotherapy and radiotherapy left Xu Li very weak. My son heard that "one pigeon is better than nine chickens", pigeon soup is very nutritious, and can play a certain role in medical assistance for weak and postoperative patients, so he often makes pigeon soup for Xu Li.
In June 2022, when Xu Li was re-examined, the doctor said that her radiotherapy and chemotherapy effects were not good, and she has now metastasized to liver cancer. Xu Li excitedly asked the doctor: "Is the pigeon soup a hair?" It is because I drank too much pigeon soup that the liver was transferred, hey, I would have known that I would not have drunk pigeon soup."
The doctor explained: "The pigeon is not the cause of your recurrence, the pigeon soup is rich in nutrients, and for patients like you, who are chemoradiotherapy, it will also promote recovery." Xu Li wondered why his own radiotherapy and chemotherapy didn't work? The doctor said calmly: "It's not that you can't drink pigeon soup after cancer, but you have to eat less of these three kinds of hair products!"
"Hair matter" is a traditional Chinese medicine term that usually refers to nutritious or irritating foods that can induce or aggravate existing diseases. In other words, the food that can cause disease is the hair thing, and everyone is different. If a patient with kidney disease needs to limit protein, then high-protein foods are hair products, and for tumors, the following are hair products.
One is irritating foods
Irritating foods include spicy, cold, greasy foods, onions, garlic, chili peppers and other spicy and stimulating foods in daily life, which will stimulate the intestines to a certain extent, and will also make the capillaries dilate and accelerate blood flow, which may aggravate the patient's original inflammatory reaction, especially the inflammation of the respiratory tract and digestive tract.
The second is mold
Moldy foods can contain aflatoxin. Aflatoxin is a chemical substance with strong carcinogenic effects that can induce the occurrence of liver cancer. If the presence of hepatitis B virus in the body of Huang Huang will directly increase the carcinogenic effect of aflatoxin, increasing the risk of liver cancer. Aflatoxin is usually found in corn, walnuts, peanuts, cotton seeds and home-fermented pickled foods, such as bean paste, tofu, etc., so it is recommended to reduce the consumption of pickled products, if you accidentally ingest foods containing aflatoxin, you can drink a lot of water, excrete toxins through urine, or drink milk to protect the gastric mucosa.
The third is smoked products
Smoked products contain nitrosamines, which can cause tumors in almost all organs of the human body, among which digestive tract cancer is the most common. Stale foods, especially vegetables that have been cooked for a long time, have higher levels of nitrite. The most important are esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, liver cancer, and can induce tumors or malformations through the placenta to offspring, and the higher content of food is salted fish, shrimp skin, beer, bacon and nitrate meat products sausages, etc., and nitrite will also be produced when the meat and vegetable filling is placed for too long.
Rotten vegetables contain a large amount of nitrate, which can be decomposed into nitrite by bacteria and saliva, and then combined with the secondary amine in the protein in the stomach to synthesize nitrosamines. Taking vitamin C can block the formation of nitrosamines, and garlic also has a nitrosamine blocking effect.