Heilongjiang News, December 22 (Gao Junzhen, Zhou Zhihan) As a unique snack in winter, rock sugar gourd and sugar ball hawthorn have always been loved by people, and they can't help but eat more, but they forget that there are "conditions" for eating hawthorn. The gastroenterologist of the Fifth Hospital of Harbin said that hawthorn should not be eaten in large quantities on an empty stomach, otherwise it is easy to cause stomach pain and even gastrolithiasis.
Ms. Yin, 46 years old this year, likes to eat sugar ball hawthorn very much, and feels that "the entrance is sweet and sour to help digestion", which is suitable as an appetizer, so Ms. Yin has to eat more than 10 before meals for several days, until recently she began to feel paroxysmal epigastric pain, nausea and nausea, and took medicine for many days but did not get better, so she came to the Department of Gastroenterology of Harbin Fifth Hospital for medical treatment. After gastroenterologist Shi Wenlin's gastroscopy, Ms. Yin was diagnosed with gastrolithiasis, and two gastroliths with a certain size of about 4-8cm with certain activity were seen under the microscope, and multiple ulcers were found in the gastric horn and gastric body, with the largest ulcer being about 08*1.2 cm, the bottom is flat and covered with white moss, and the surrounding mucosa is hyperemic, red, and edematous. Subsequently, Dr. Shi Wenlin performed lithotripsy for Ms. Yin** and gave her acid suppression, protection of gastric mucosa, oral Coca-Cola and other symptoms**.
According to Dr. Shi Wenlin, there are various causes of gastroliths, especially vegetable bezoars, which are due to eating too many foods containing more tannic acids such as persimmons, hawthorns, and black dates. When a large amount of tannic acid enters the stomach, it will combine with the protein components in the stomach to produce water-insoluble tannin protein precipitated in the stomach, and pectin and gum can coagulate when exposed to acid, and the peel and plant fibers will be bonded together to form a clot, which will form a huge clump of hard gastrolith through the mechanical movement of the stomach.
Dr. Shi Wenlin suggested that if the stones are repeatedly rubbed and squeezed with the stomach wall, it will lead to multiple ulcers in the gastric horn, antrum and gastric body, and in severe cases, gastrointestinal bleeding or perforation may occur, and some bezoliths can also lead to pyloric obstruction. Stomach stones can also block the lumen of the small intestine during their passage into the small intestine, causing intestinal obstruction. However, the formation of bezoars is preventable and treatable, people should avoid eating hawthorn, persimmon, black dates and other foods before and after eating high-protein foods or drinking alcohol and tea, and do not eat a large amount of the above foods at one time, hawthorn can occasionally eat 2 3 pieces;Avoid eating it with various acidic fruits such as oranges, kiwis, etc. In addition, patients with poor gastrointestinal motility, postoperative abdominal surgery, and the elderly should reduce the consumption of the above fruits, and at the same time actively improve gastrointestinal motility diseases. (ENDS).