An elderly man in another place ate 4 mooncakes in a row and suffered from acute pancreatitis, which attracted attention

Executive summary

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, many people still have a lot of mooncakes in their homes, and some people plan to eat them for breakfast or supper. However, mooncakes should also be consumed in moderation. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, an 82-year-old man in other places became unwell after eating 4 mooncakes in a row and was sent to the hospital for treatment, but was found to have acute pancreatitis.

In the interview, the reporter found that many citizens like to eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. For the moon cakes left after the festival, they will generally be thrown away after the packaging is opened, and if the packaging bag is not opened, they will be kept and eaten slowly.

If a guest comes, they will definitely cut a little bit and eat it, and they may add up to three or four pieces. The leftover mooncakes will definitely be thrown away if they are left overnight, and those that can't be eaten will generally be thrown away directly.

- Citizens

Probably there should be three or four boxes sent by others, maybe one person will eat one or two pieces, usually cut and eat, and the rest will be eaten separately, and the rest will not be eaten overnight, so it will be thrown away.

- Citizens

Eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival has the meaning of sweet reunion, but remember that eating moon cakes must also be in moderation. Especially at present, although the Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, many people still have a lot of mooncakes at home, and they should not be overeaten in order to "process" them as soon as possible. In other places, there is an 82-year-old man's moon cake "harvest" at home, and there are still a lot of leftover after the holiday. Seeing the remaining mooncakes at home, he thought that by eating a few more pieces a day, he could "eliminate" the mooncakes as soon as possible, so he ate 4 mooncakes in a row for dinner, but he did not expect to have abdominal pain and nausea and vomiting afterwards. Seeing this, his family rushed him to the hospital for treatment, but he was found to have acute pancreatitis. Some doctors in our city also pointed out that this elderly patient is not an isolated case.

In the past Mid-Autumn Festival, many patients ate a large amount of moon cakes, drank a lot of alcohol, etc., resulting in the onset of acute pancreatitis, and every holiday, the incidence of acute pancreatitis will increase by about 20% to 30% compared with usual.

——Wu Lin, Deputy Director of the Department of Gastroenterology, Shantou Central Hospital

Acute pancreatitis is one of the common diseases of the digestive system, with acute onset, once it deteriorates to severe pancreatitis, it is relatively difficult to treat, and in severe cases, it will cause multi-organ failure.

After vomiting, the abdominal pain often does not improve, and this situation should be alerted to whether it will be combined with acute pancreatitis, and it is necessary to go to the hospital as soon as possible to avoid severe disease.

——Wu Lin, Deputy Director of the Department of Gastroenterology, Shantou Central Hospital

For this reason, the doctor reminded everyone that eating moon cakes should be in moderation.

Moon cakes are high-sugar, high-fat, high-calorie food, a large amount of food, often will cause a large amount of pancreatic juice secretion, some elderly patients, pregnant women, children, and usually we have these patients with relative digestive dysfunction, it is not suitable to take a large amount of moon cakes, easy to cause pancreatic dysfunction, leading to pancreatitis attacks. If there are still some moon cakes left in our home, we generally suggest that less should not be more, that is, you can eat a small amount, you can eat during the day, try not to eat moon cakes at night or before going to bed, and you can drink some tea when eating, including green tea, which can reduce the absorption of oil.

——Wu Lin, Deputy Director of the Department of Gastroenterology, Shantou Central Hospital