In the eyes of most people, a bowl of soft and smooth porridge, the nutrients in it are very easy to be digested and absorbed by the human body, can help the body quickly recover physical strength, eliminate fatigue, strengthen the stomach, is a nourishing food at a close price, so many people when they first recover from a serious illness, their families will cook porridge for them.
However, some patients feel warm and comfortable after drinking porridge, while others feel acid reflux and heartburn, which is even more uncomfortable. So can porridge really nourish the stomach? Is porridge really suitable for everyone to drink?
Since the porridge has been stewed to a relatively thin scale, it does not need to be chewed repeatedly to stimulate the mouth to secrete enough amylase, nor does it need the stomach to work too high to digest and absorb.
Therefore, the burden of porridge on the digestive system is relatively small, and it is not easy to cause indigestion reactions.
But not everyone is suitable for drinking porridge to nourish the stomach, such as the following types of people.
1. Patients with gastroesophageal reflux
If you do not exercise for a long time after eating, the refluxed food will be mixed with gastric acid, and the reflux will enter the esophagus, which will cause damage to the esophageal mucosa, causing symptoms such as heartburn, chest tightness, and throat obstruction.
Therefore, some patients with superficial gastritis superstition believe that drinking porridge can nourish the stomach, and drinking porridge for a long time will eventually lead to reflux esophagitis, and even esophageal erosion in severe cases.
Therefore, patients with gastroesophageal reflux who are prone to heartburn and acid reflux are not recommended to eat too much liquid food such as porridge, but should eat semi-liquid or solid food to avoid acid reflux damage to the esophagus.
2. Patients with peptic ulcer
Porridge will stimulate excessive gastric acid secretion, and a large amount of gastric acid will seriously irritate the gastric mucosa and ulcer surface, which is not conducive to the healing of the ulcer surface. Patients with peptic ulcer have more gastric acid secretion, and the number of times they drink porridge should be appropriately reduced to avoid stimulating excessive gastric acid secretion and aggravating the condition.
Therefore, patients with gastric ulcer or superficial gastritis should not drink a lot of porridge, if you really want to drink porridge, you can add a little baking soda when cooking porridge to help neutralize gastric acid and reduce the irritation of gastric acid to the gastric mucosa.
3. People with poor gastrointestinal absorption function
Due to the high water content of porridge, it will dilute the digestive juices secreted by the mouth and gastrointestinal tract, resulting in food not being digested in time. Therefore, for some people with poor gastrointestinal absorption function, the digestion will be slow, which will increase the burden on the stomach and intestines.
Moreover, eating porridge will reduce the frequency of chewing, and when chewing, the mouth will produce a large amount of saliva, amylase in saliva is an important component to promote digestion, if you reduce chewing when drinking porridge, the salivary glands in the mouth can not secrete enough amylase, which is not conducive to the digestion of food.
Therefore, if people with poor gastrointestinal absorption function drink porridge for a long time, it is easy to lead to insufficient nutrient intake, and it will also lead to further reduction of gastrointestinal digestion and absorption function.
To sum up, drinking porridge to nourish the stomach is not absolute, for some people, drinking porridge does not nourish the stomach, but hurts the stomach, such as gastroesophageal reflux patients, peptic ulcer patients and people with poor gastrointestinal absorption function, these people should eat scientifically and reasonably according to their actual situation, and avoid blindly superstitious ways to drink porridge to nourish the stomach, so as not to aggravate the condition.