In addition to being hard, human teeth are also very tolerant to cold and heat and other stimuli such as acrimony. However, if you eat too cold, too hot or spicy food, it will lead to gastric mucosal damage. If it is found that patients with superficial and atrophic gastritis like to drink hot tea, it is speculated that drinking hot tea is related to the occurrence of gastritis. Some people use gastroscope to observe that congestion and edema may occur after eating pepper and mustard. Too cold or too hot food, drink or ice water for therapeutic purposes can cause gastric mucosal damage.
Be careful when the disease enters the mouth. Gastrointestinal diseases are often caused or aggravated by dietary factors, that is, the disease enters from the mouth. The food in the stomach comes from the mouth. Because food directly contacts the gastrointestinal tract and stays in the gastrointestinal tract for digestion, the gastrointestinal tract is often stimulated mechanically and chemically by food.
Ancient medicine believed that various dietary factors would lead to gastrointestinal diseases.
1? Improper diet: Overeating makes lodging stagnate in the gastrointestinal tract, which easily leads to abdominal distension and pain, aversion to food and gas, acid swelling and aversion to food, and diarrhea. Eating too little, blood and biochemistry are passive, and the absorption function of spleen and stomach is also weakened, resulting in sallow and emaciated face, fatigue and abdominal distension after eating.
2? Unclean diet: eating unclean food, or eating rotten food, or drinking sewage, hurting the spleen and stomach, leading to improper conduction of Nahua, which can lead to vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, or pus and blood under dysentery. Eating cold fruits, vegetables or other unclean food contaminated by eggs by mistake can cause parasitic diseases (such as ascariasis, taeniasis, pinworm, hookworm disease, etc. ).
3? Diet is partial to food: eating too much of five flavors of food, such as sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty, will lead to excessive dirty qi and pathological changes in the spleen and stomach, large intestine and other viscera. Excessive consumption of five irritating foods such as vinegar, garlic, pepper, coffee, spices and condiments will not only directly damage and stimulate the esophagus and gastrointestinal tract, but also lead to a series of pathological changes in the gastrointestinal tract, or fire, or yin injury, or blood movement, or gas consumption, resulting in stomach pain, abdominal pain, fullness, bloody stool, and even choking cough of diaphragm. Eating fatty, sweet and greasy things, overeating fatty things can make the spleen and stomach stagnate, the body lose health, the dampness accumulates and produces phlegm, resulting in stomach pain and vomiting; Heat toxin metaplasia can cause stomach carbuncle and intestinal carbuncle. Excessive consumption of cold fruits and vegetables, or excessive consumption of frozen drinks, or poor transport of spleen and stomach, repeated consumption of cold can damage the yang of spleen and stomach, and turn cold and dampness into stomach pain, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other diseases; Eating hot food, too hot and too fast, will also burn the esophagus and stomach for a long time, leading to dysphagia, pain, and even choking cough of diaphragm.
Modern medicine believes that bacteria, parasites, etc. From the mouth, it often causes gastrointestinal diseases. For example, some bacteria can directly invade the gastrointestinal tract, causing gastrointestinal diseases. If you eat food containing bacterial toxins, it will cause acute gastroenteritis. Hemolytic Streptococcus, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Pneumococcus can cause acute cellulitis. If food containing mycobacterium tuberculosis infects the intestine, it can cause intestinal tuberculosis. Such as echinococcosis, cysticercosis, trichinosis and filariasis. It can cause esophageal infection and esophageal inflammation. Eating food containing ascaris eggs can cause intestinal ascariasis. If you take DDV, DDT, arsenic, mercury and other chemicals, it will cause gastritis. Others, such as strong acid, strong alkali and Lysol, can cause upper digestive tract burns, inflammation, congestion, edema and erosion in different degrees, and even ulcers, necrosis, decay and even perforation in severe cases.
The carcinogenic problem of nitrosamines has attracted more and more attention. At present, it is known that there are many nitrosamines with different structures, which can cause gastric cancer in many animals.