Stomach suffers in cold winter, beware of the ten stomach-damaging bad habits

　　List of bad habits that hurt your stomach in winter

　　1. Mental stress

　　When a person is nervous, annoyed, or angry, his or her bad emotions will spread to the limbic system through the cerebral cortex and affect the plant. nerve System, directly leads to gastrointestinal disorders, and secretes excessive gastric acid and gastric protein, causing gastric vasoconstriction, pyloric spasm, emptying disorder, damage to the protective layer of gastric mucosa, causing self-digestion and ulcer formation. After long-term depression, anxiety or mental trauma, you are prone to ulcer disease.

　　2. Overwork

　　Whether it is physical work or mental work, if you are overtired, it will cause insufficient gastrointestinal blood supply, secretory dysfunction, excessive gastric acid and reduced mucus, causing damage to the mucosa.

　　3. Overeating dinner

　　Some people tend to focus their food nutrition on dinner for the day, or like to eat late-night snacks or something before going to bed. Doing so not only causes unreliable sleep and easily leads to obesity, but can also induce ulcer formation by stimulating the gastric mucosa and causing excessive gastric acid secretion.

　　4. Three meals a day are irregular

　　No time for breakfast, working overtime and “skipping” dinner. Skipping breakfast will cause the gastric acid secreted by the stomach to be unable to digest food, which will damage the esophagus and gastrointestinal mucosa (deeper damage can form ulcers).

　　five, sleep After eating before going to bed

　　Generally, it takes about 4 hours for food to be completely emptied from the stomach into the small intestine (it takes more than 6 hours for fats to be emptied). If you have a heavy meal before going to bed, the food in the stomach will not have time to be digested, which will increase the burden on the stomach and disrupt the working rules of the stomach. Abnormal digestive function will occur, which can easily lead to gastroduodenal damage. disease。

　　6. Can’t keep one’s mouth shut

　　Excessive eating of spicy, cold, hard and other irritating foods. Eating chili peppers in moderation has certain benefits for the body. However, if you have gastrointestinal diseases and eat too much spicy food, it will irritate the gastrointestinal mucosa, aggravate congestion and edema, and be detrimental to the recovery of the disease. It is recommended that you eat it after your stomach is fine.

　　7. Tolerate illness

　　Many young people with stomach discomfort do not pay attention to it and are unwilling to go Hospital . An upset stomach is your body’s alarm. Stomach disease People who are sick must consult and seek medical advice from a professional doctor in a timely manner, so as to avoid serious illness caused by minor changes. In principle, male The chance of suffering from stomach problems is much higher than female big. Because men have greater life pressure, they often have bad habits such as smoking and drinking.

　　8. Uneven hunger and fullness

　　When you are hungry, the gastric acid and protease in the stomach are not neutralized by food, and the concentration is high, which can easily cause self-digestion of the mucous membrane. Overeating can easily damage the self-protection mechanism of the stomach ； Excessive expansion of the stomach wall and excessive retention of food can contribute to gastric damage.

　　9. Devouring

　　Food enters the stomach and undergoes storage, grinding, and digestion to turn the food into a chylous form before it can be discharged into the intestines. If the food is not chewed carefully, swallowed voraciously, and the food is rough, it will increase the burden on the stomach and prolong the residence time, which may cause damage to the gastric mucosa. ； In addition, chewing slowly can increase saliva secretion and reduce gastric acid and bile secretion, which is beneficial to protecting the stomach.

　　10. Drug abuse

　　There are three main types of drugs that are easy to damage the gastric mucosa: one is acetylsalicylic acid, such as aspirin； The second is non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as phenylbutazone, indomethacin, and ibuprofen ； The third is corticosteroids and other hormonal drugs. Therefore, the use of these drugs should be avoided as much as possible. If they must be taken, the dosage and duration of treatment should be controlled. It is best to take them after meals.

　　Chinese medicine teaches you wonderful ways to nourish your stomach in winter

　　1. Take measures to keep warm

　　Stomach suffers in cold winter, warm the stomach and maintain health to maintain fighting power

　　The stomach likes warmth and is afraid of cold, likes moisturizing and hates dryness. The weather in autumn and winter is cold. If the stomach gets cold, it will damage the function of the stomach, so you should pay attention to keeping the stomach warm. People suffering from chronic gastritis usually wear a belly protector to keep their stomach warmer. There is a large temperature difference between day and night in autumn and winter. Applying a hot water bottle or a warm patch to the navel at night can warm the yang and dispel the cold. Cover yourself with a quilt when sleeping at night to prevent stomach pain caused by catching a cold in your abdomen.

　　2. Food should be warm, light, soft and fresh

　　People with yang deficiency, qi deficiency and patients with stomach problems should have a warm, light, soft and fresh diet in autumn and winter. It is better to eat hot food. In addition, the food should be light, soft, fresh, regular and quantitative, eat small and frequent meals, avoid eating too cold, too hard, too spicy, too sticky food, and avoid overeating.

　　3. Appropriate supplements

　　Traditional Chinese medicine believes that in autumn and winter, you can eat foods that warm yang and dispel cold. Warm foods such as mutton and dog meat have a stomach-nourishing effect. Sweet foods and traditional Chinese medicine can nourish the spleen and stomach, such as dangshen, astragalus, atractylodes, yam, millet, pumpkin, etc., all of which have a good tonifying effect on the spleen and stomach and can improve immunity. Dried ginger, perilla leaves, ginger, and pepper are good for strengthening the stomach and warming the stomach to dispel cold, and can treat symptoms of stomach cold.

　　4. Abdominal massage

　　With the navel as the center, massage 36 times in a clockwise direction from small to large circles with the palm of your right hand, and then massage the abdomen 36 times in a counterclockwise direction with the palm of your left hand, which can promote the digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach.

　　5. Avoid overeating

　　People love to cook hot pot in winter, but eating too much hot pot is not easy to notice, which can easily lead to overeating, and later on, stomach problems will follow. Therefore, it is very important to have a balanced portion of each meal. Don’t be overly full or starving. Seventy percent full is just right. In addition, there should be a balanced mix of vegetables, fruits, grains and meat.

　　6. Quit smoking and drinking

　　Tobacco can increase gastric acid secretion, reduce the tone of the pyloric sphincter, cause bile reflux, and destroy the gastric mucosal barrier. Therefore, long-term heavy smoking can easily cause peptic ulcers and is not conducive to the healing of ulcers. Alcohol can directly destroy the gastric mucosal barrier and cause acute erosive and hemorrhagic gastritis.