During the festival, gluttonous feasts are continuous, family reunions, smiles, dancing spoons, and frequent toasts, followed by the high incidence of digestive diseases such as acute gastroenteritis and acute pancreatitis. Today, let's talk about two types of digestive tract diseases that are common during the holiday season.
1. Acute gastroenteritis
Because every household hoards vegetables and meat before the festival, especially cooked food, and there are more leftovers during the festival, it is easy to breed bacteria and cause food to deteriorate, if you eat contaminated food, it is easy to cause acute gastroenteritis, and the common manifestations are mainly nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, sometimes accompanied by paroxysmal abdominal pain, fever, and even blood in the stool in severe cases. So, how to prevent acute gastroenteritis?
1. Maintain cleanliness and hygiene: Pay attention to food hygiene and wash your hands frequently, and disinfect household items to avoid the growth of bacteria. At the same time, it is necessary to keep food, utensils, containers, refrigerators and other storage places clean to prevent food contamination.
2. Avoid eating unclean food: do not eat rotten and spoiled food, especially seafood is easy to spoil, be sure to choose fresh seafood when buying, and eat it in time, do not store it for too long, meals are best not overnight, fruits and vegetables should be cleaned before eating, and eat less raw food.
3. Eat a light diet and avoid irritation: The diet should be mainly light, and try to avoid eating spicy and irritating foods. In addition, irritation of the gastrointestinal tract by medications should be avoided.
4. Strengthen exercise and develop good work and rest habits: Strengthen physical exercise, improve the body's immunity, and help prevent the occurrence of acute gastroenteritis. Develop good work and rest habits, and ensure a healthy emotional state, do not stay up late, do not be irritable, anxious, etc., which is also conducive to enhancing gastrointestinal function and preventing acute gastroenteritis.
2. Acute pancreatitis
Acute pancreatitis is generally related to overeating, heavy drinking, especially people with underlying diseases such as hyperlipidemia, biliary tract disease or previous history of acute pancreatitis need to pay special attention, if a large amount of high-fat and high-fat food is ingested in a short period of time, the probability of acute pancreatitis is also greatly increased, the common manifestations are persistent abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, jaundice, severe cases can even appear shock, lungs, liver, kidneys, respiratory and other organ failure and death, severe acute pancreatitis mortality is relatively high. So, how can acute pancreatitis be prevented?
1. Reduce triggers: Eat regularly and quantitatively, eat small amounts often, chew slowly, not be too full, avoid overeating, eat a light, low-fat, high-protein, high-fiber, non-irritating and easily digestible diet, and try to eat less fried, greasy and irritating food. Avoid spicy, coffee, strong tea and other irritating foods, and refuse high-fat foods. The cooking method should be boiled, steamed, stewed, etc., and fried and fried should be avoided.
2. Limit alcohol: Excessive alcohol consumption is one of the causes of acute pancreatitis, so you should drink alcohol in moderation to avoid pancreatitis caused by excessive drinking.
3. Combination of work and rest: avoid the decline of the body's resistance caused by excessive fatigue, resulting in the invasion of germs and bacteria.
4. Disease control: timely treatment of systemic diseases, such as diabetes, hyperlipidemia, etc., to control blood sugar and blood lipid levels within the normal range.
If you have gastrointestinal discomfort symptoms such as "abdominal pain, bloating, acid reflux, heartburn, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and blood in the stool", you should go to the hospital for examination in time, early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment.
In the festival full of joy and food, let's focus on healthy eating, so that food and health go hand in hand!
Author: Li Yufei
Source: Shenyang Red Cross Hospital
Editor: Huang Di
Proofreading: Yang Dongni, Chen Zeming
Preliminary review: Xue Bing
Review: Xu Jiang