In daily life, people regard betel nut as a snack, cut fresh green sugar palm fruit into small pieces, then chew the pulp and spit it out at the same time. After making betel nut, lime and many spices will be added. This will increase the taste of betel nut. After chewing, you will feel fresh and cool in your mouth, which can effectively refresh yourself.
However, there are two sides to the story. Betel nut has many benefits, but it also has certain harm. The World Health Organization lists betel nut as the first carcinogen, because chewing betel nut for a long time is easy to induce oral cancer. Indian is a country that likes eat areca. Many people in Taiwan Province Province also like to chew betel nuts. Therefore, the incidence of male oral cancer in these two regions is much higher than that in other regions and countries.
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The Action Plan for Healthy Oral Cavity (20 19—2025) issued by the General Office of the National Health and Wellness Committee puts forward that in areas with betel nut chewing habits, we should focus on the harm of long-term chewing betel nut to oral health, carry out targeted publicity and education and oral health examination, and promote early diagnosis and treatment of periodontal and oral mucosal diseases. Experts say that chewing betel nut for a long time has the risk of oral cancer.
People in some southern provinces of China have the habit of chewing betel nut, which leads to an increase in the incidence of oral cancer. Early arecoline gradually leads to oral mucosal fibrosis. Patients will have symptoms such as limited mouth opening, limited tongue movement, loss of mucosal elasticity and ulceration, as well as pain and difficulty in eating. This is a precancerous lesion before oral cancer occurs. Moreover, betel nut is highly addictive and will turn into oral cancer after a long time.
Betel nut chewing tablets are generally composed of betel nut, old vine and quicklime, and some flue-cured tobacco and spices are added in some areas. Additives such as lime, clove, tobacco leaves and betel nut seeds all contain some carcinogens, and the occurrence of oral cancer is directly proportional to the time of chewing betel nut and the time of betel nut staying in the mouth.
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