Yangcheng Evening News reporter Chen Hui, correspondent Liu Yiting.
When the temperature drops suddenly, those who usually have chronic digestive tract diseases may experience stomach pain, stomach bloating, abdominal pain, acid reflux, diarrhea, etc., and even go to the emergency department due to gastrointestinal bleeding. Why are digestive tract diseases afraid of cold?The weather is cold and the ground is freezing, how to start the "stomach war"?Professor Liu Fengbin, Department of Spleen and Stomach, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, answered the questions.
Cold weather causes vasoconstriction of the mucosa of the digestive tract
Liu Fengbin introduced that due to irregular diet, high work pressure and mental tension among urban people, the incidence of digestive tract diseases including gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer is very high. Most patients usually do not have obvious discomfort, but the weather suddenly turns cold in winter, and digestive diseases are easy to ** or aggravate, and even bleeding occurs.
This is because the lower temperature is easy to stimulate the body's sympathetic nervous system to excite, causing the mucosal vasoconstriction of the digestive tract, resulting in mucosal ischemia and hypoxia. At this time, patients may present with epigastric fullness, cold or painful stomach, acid reflux, and heartburn. Once the ulcer has invaded the capillaries in the stomach wall, it can cause bleeding (heavy bleeding or chronic bleeding).
Common symptoms of bleeding from gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer include melena, dizziness, fatigue, paleness, hematemesis, cold sweats, and a drop in blood pressure. Liu Fengbin reminded that if the above symptoms appear, you must seek medical attention in time, otherwise, with the increase of bleeding, it may cause shock and even life-threatening.
Fever constitution is too warm, and it is easy to cause gastrointestinal bleeding
It is said that "around the stove to gather and cheer, the hundred flavors melt in the small kettle", hot pot, mutton soup, shabu shabu is an indispensable sense of ritual for warming the winter, and Cantonese people also like to use ginseng, astragalus and other nourishing herbs to make a warm medicinal pot for the whole family to enjoy. Can patients with digestive tract diseases still enjoy these delicacies?
Liu Fengbin reminded that winter food has a warming effect, and for people who have a hot physique, they may accumulate heat in it, which will lead to blood heat, and the evil behavior of blood heat is easy to damage the stomach. This means an increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding. Therefore, he reminded that people with digestive tract diseases must take a moderate winter supplement.
How to take care of people with digestive diseases in winter?Liu Fengbin suggested that first of all, we should pay attention to keeping warm, avoid cold in the abdomen, and avoid eating raw and cold food to lose yang energy, which will cause stomach pain and bloating. Secondly, it is necessary to avoid eating indigestible, too sour, too sweet food, or too much meat, etc., so as not to cause indigestion. Third, winter diet therapy must be targeted according to one's own physique. For people with weak physique, it is best to eat some relatively flat foods, such as Huaishan, gourd, lily, among which Huaishan can not only nourish yin but also strengthen the spleen, especially suitable for winter food. For people who are usually prone to dry mouth, you can eat some dendrobium, white grass root, jade bamboo, American ginseng, etc. For people who are usually damp and hot, prone to dry mouth and bitter mouth, poor bowel movements, and yellow and greasy tongue, some ingredients can be appropriately added to clear heat and dispel dampness when making soup, such as Xihuang grass, Mianyin Chen, fire charcoal mother, etc. For people who are prone to cold hands and feet and lack of yang energy, you can eat some angelica ginger mutton soup to warm up.