Diet taboos for stomach pain

Avoid highly irritating foods, foods that increase digestive burden, and foods that you are clearly intolerant to. There is no absolute fasting list that applies to everyone. All taboos must be adjusted flexibly based on your own tolerance.

Don’t believe it. Last week, I had a friend who suffered from chronic gastritis. His stomach hurt so much that he kept holding his stomach and wanted to drink iced milk tea just taken out of the refrigerator. After half a cup, he squatted on the ground and couldn’t get up. He went to the emergency room and got an injection to relieve spasm. Don’t underestimate the stimulation caused by this temperature difference. The temperature of cold beer, ice soda, and ice cream just taken out of the freezer is twenty to thirty degrees lower than that in the stomach cavity. The moment it comes into contact with the stomach wall, the congested and edematous submucosal blood vessels will contract, and the smooth muscles will directly twist and spasm. The pain can really make people break out in cold sweat on the forehead. In addition, freshly cooked hot pot, spicy kebabs sprinkled with millet, high-quality liquor, and strong and bitter black coffee also fall into this category. Capsaicin, alcohol, and caffeine will directly stimulate the gastric mucosa and promote excessive secretion of gastric acid. If you have acid reflux and burn pain, eating it will directly add fuel to the disease. Of course, there is no need to overdo it. For example, if you don’t feel any discomfort after eating or drinking capsaicin-free colored peppers or warm scented tea, there is absolutely no need to ban them all. If you have a stomachache and you have no appetite, you will suffer if you don’t allow them to eat anything.

In addition to things that directly irritate the stomach, it is also best to avoid foods that make the stomach "work overtime". For example, during the Chinese New Year, the table is full of hard dishes: pickled elbows, fried crispy pork, fat and oily braised pork, and dead-faced dumplings stuffed with meat fillings. They are delicious when they are healthy. However, when you have a stomachache, your stomach has weak peristalsis. When these high-fat and high-protein things are put in, the stomach will spend two or three times longer grinding them. Food piled in the stomach for a long time will not only increase the pain, but also repeatedly stimulate the secretion of gastric acid, and all the symptoms of acid reflux and heartburn will follow. There is also a misunderstanding that has been controversial for many years: many people think that they need to drink porridge to nourish the stomach when they have stomach pain, but this is not necessarily the case. If you suffer from bloating and pain caused by insufficient gastric motility and weak digestive function, drinking warm and soft porridge can indeed reduce the burden of digestion and help you recover slowly. ； But if you have reflux esophagitis or burning pain caused by excess gastric acid, porridge is a liquid that can easily flow upward, and high-carbohydrate water can also stimulate gastric acid secretion. The more you drink, the worse the pain will be. This is the core reason why some people get better with gastric problems by drinking porridge, while others feel more uncomfortable the more they drink porridge.

There is another blind spot that many people don’t pay attention to, that is, you must not touch foods that you are intolerant to when you have stomach pain. There is no unified standard for this, it all depends on your own body reaction: for example, people who are lactose intolerant are prone to diarrhea when they drink cold milk. When they have stomachache, the gastrointestinal barrier is more fragile. Drinking half a cup may induce colic. ； Some people are sensitive to the plant proteases in mangoes and pineapples, or are intolerant to allogeneic proteins in seafood. They are fine if they eat them normally, but eating them when they have stomach pain may aggravate the inflammatory reaction. A patient I knew before was suffering from acute gastritis. He was so greedy that he ate two iced hairy crabs. The pain caused him to go to the emergency room overnight to drink water. The doctor said that the fragile gastric mucosa was stimulated by foreign proteins, causing acute spasm.

In fact, I have seen many people who are troubled by stomach pain over the years. The biggest feeling is that there is really no universal "fasting list for stomach pain". It is said on the Internet that you must not touch it. Maybe you will be fine if you eat a small amount. Others praise the stomach-nourishing food, but you will frown in pain after eating it. The most reliable method is actually to keep a simple diet note by yourself. If you eat something that hurts you this time, avoid it next time. If you eat something that makes you feel comfortable, you can make appropriate arrangements. After all, your stomach knows you better than the standard answers on the Internet.