In June, it is the lychee season, but it is not uncommon to be hospitalized every year because of eating lychees! For example, recently -
1 pound of lychee a day, the result into the hospital!
1. Pregnant women eat 1 kilogram of lychee per day, and there is an accident when there is only one week left in the expected date
According to Xiaoxiang Morning News reported on June 8, Guizhou 29-year-old mother-to-be Ru Ms. (pseudonym) loves to eat fruit after pregnancy, and recently lychees are often 1 kilogram a day.
However, I did not expect that this fruit was "eaten unexpectedly". Only a week before her due date, she felt a contraction in her lower abdomen and a brown discharge from her vagina. Rushed to a nearby hospital for examination, the result was that ultrasound B found that the baby had been stillborn in the womb, and the random blood sugar was as high as 26mmol/L, and the blood pressure was 170/100mmHg.
It turned out that after pregnancy, if the woman (pseudonym) did not have regular obstetric examinations and blood pressure measurements as required, the glucose tolerance test screening at 24-28 weeks of pregnancy was not done.
Han Hui, deputy chief physician of the Department of Obstetric Endocrinology of Hangzhou First People's Hospital, who received the follow-up treatment, said, "This patient's condition belongs to gestational diabetes, which is colloquially speaking, high blood sugar during pregnancy. ”①
2. Eat 1 kilogram of lychee a day, dizzy and weak into the hospital
According to the Guangdong public DV scene reported on June 7, Guangdong Ms. Huang (pseudonym) bought a pound of lychees at the market and "solved" the lychees on the day she returned home. But soon, she developed symptoms of dizziness, nausea, and fatigue.
After arriving at the hospital, Ms. Huang was diagnosed with diabetic ketosis, and the culprit was the pound of lychees.
Peng Linping, deputy chief physician of the Department of Endocrinology of the First People's Hospital of Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, said in an interview that the patient usually belongs to the population with poor blood sugar control, and eats too many lychees at one time, and there will be fructose intolerance and glucose metabolism disorders. ②
Lychees are high glycemic index fruits. In the above media reports, both of them were admitted to the hospital because of their own blood sugar problems, plus eating a large number of lychees at one time.
In addition, like children, the elderly and small and low-weight people, lychee is not eaten properly, and it is more likely to have "lychee disease".
Every year, people eat lychees and enter the hospital!
Chen Ping, chief physician of the Department of Endocrinology of Harbin First Hospital, said in a health newspaper article in 2019 that eating too much lychee may cause hypoglycemia and suffer from "lychee disease".
Lychee disease refers to the symptoms of dizziness, sweating, paleness, fatigue, palpitation, thirst, hunger and other symptoms after eating a large number of fresh lychees, and in severe cases, there may be symptoms such as cold limbs, fine pulse, decreased blood pressure, and even convulsions and sudden coma.
Some people say, "Since eating high-sugar lychees can have low blood sugar, for people with high blood sugar, can't they eat more?"
This is wrong!
Lychees contain more than 16% sugar, most of which are fructose. When people eat, fructose will stimulate a large amount of insulin secretion, but insulin is only sensitive to glucose, and fructose into glucose takes a certain amount of time, blood sugar is not enough to cope with excessive insulin at this time, and eventually may lead to hypoglycemia.
However, the hypoglycemia caused by lychee disease is not equal to lowering blood sugar, and eating a large amount of lychee is caused by temporary hypoglycemia, which is more unfavorable to the control of blood sugar. Secondly, the harm of hypoglycemia is greater, and it may be life-threatening when it is serious; and if a small amount of lychee is eaten, the body still has the ability to convert it into glucose in time, which will inevitably increase the blood sugar more and aggravate the disease.
Eat lychees, these 3 situations must be avoided!
1. Eat lychees to prevent hypoglycemia, children do not fast, do not exceed 5 at a time!
Liu Changwei, a nutritionist at Nanjing Children's Hospital, said in an interview with Health Times in 2020 that the real cause of hypoglycemia occurred when eating lychees was that lychees contained two toxins, hypoglycin A and MCPG, which were more abundant in unripe lychees and lower in mature lychees.
Younger children are prone to hypoglycemia due to insufficient liver glycogen reserves, after eating a large amount of lychee, and do not eat other foods. These two toxins can destroy some of the body's dehydrogenases, resulting in fatty acid metabolism disorders, affecting normal fat oxidation and gluconeogenesis, interfering with the body's ability to produce glucose, leading to acute hypoglycemia and explosive encephalopathy.
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Of course, not everyone who eats lychees develops hypoglycemia, and it should be noted that:
Children under 4 years of age, it is best not to eat whole lychees directly;
Do not eat a large amount of lychee on an empty stomach;
Do not eat lychees that are not yet fully ripe;
Lychees can be eaten in small amounts after meals. For example, half an hour after eating or between meals, it is recommended not to exceed 5 at a time.
If you have very suspicious hypoglycemic symptoms because you have eaten a lot of lychees, you can take glucose water or sugary juice to correct it, and if the symptoms are serious, you must be sent to the hospital. ④⑤
2. Eat too many lychees is easy to "catch fire", adults do not exceed 10 at a time!
Nutritionist Liu Pingping said in an interview with Health Times in 2020 that some people will feel dry mouth the next day after eating a lot of lychees, acne on their faces, constipation knots, etc. Everyone often calls this phenomenon "on fire".
This is because lychees contain not low sugar, such as the common concubine smile, cinnamon flavor, glutinous rice and other varieties, the sugar content is basically more than 12%.
High sugar will make the mouth in a hyperosmolar state, so it will feel dry mouth, and it will also aggravate the growth of acne. As for some people who have a sore throat, dizziness, limb weakness and other discomforts after eating lychees, there may not be an inevitable connection with eating lychees, because lychees are listed on a hot day, and it is easy to have some respiratory diseases at this time.
Some people say that if you soak it in light salt water before eating a lychee, or drink light salt water after eating a lychee, you will not "catch fire". In my opinion, light brine is not necessarily effective in preventing "catching fire". ④
For adults with normal glucose tolerance:
Generally, it is best to control it within 10 capsules, especially not to eat a large amount of food continuously.
Do not eat lychees on an empty stomach, it is best to eat them half an hour after meals.
The elderly with constipation should try not to eat, people who control weight should eat less, and people with liver disease, kidney disease, and gastrointestinal disease should be more cautious. ⑤
People with poor blood sugar control should try not to eat or follow the doctor's advice.
3. Eat lychees and remember to rinse your mouth before driving!
Because of the situation of eating lychees and being investigated for drunk driving, it also happens from time to time in life:
Wang Meng, Department of Nutrition, Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, said in an interview with Health Times in 2020 that lychee is a high-sugar fruit, which will be anaerobic fermentation in the middle of transportation and preservation, producing ethanol, and fruits with high sugar content will appear in this situation, as well as the familiar egg yolk pie.
If we eat a few capsules at a time, the alcohol will stay in our mouths, but after a few minutes it will volatilize and will not enter the bloodstream. After eating lychees, rinse your mouth with water, and there will be basically no problems. Therefore, driver friends do not have to worry about being investigated for "drunk driving" because of eating lychees. ④
This article is synthesized from:
(1) 2021-06-08 Xiaoxiang Morning News "Pregnant women eat 1 kilogram of lychee a day, and the expected date is only one week left when the child is gone!" This indicator must not be ignored when pregnant..."
(2) 2021-06-07 Guangdong public DV scene "After the woman ate 1 kilogram of more than lychee, she immediately felt nauseous and dizzy!" Doctor: Beware of "Lychee Disease"
(3) 2019-06-28 Health Times "Sugar friends eat lychees to be careful"
(4) 2021-06-08 Health Times "The Trouble of Eating Lychees"
(5) 2017-06-23Behaciative Times "Don't let babies eat lychees on an empty stomach"
Source: Yangzi Famous Medical Group