Do you know? Open the door | A 7-year-old boy ate three popsicles in a row, causing severe internal bleeding... Excessive consumption of cold drinks can be fatal →

Writing expert: Han Xiaoli, chief physician, executive director of the Xinjiang Nutrition Society, director of the Nutrition Department of Urumqi Friendship Hospital, and health science expert of the Autonomous Region Health Commission.

Review expert: Yang Lin, chief physician, supervisor of Xinjiang Nutrition Society, and chief scientific communication expert of the autonomous region.

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A 7-year-old boy ate three popsicles in a row, which caused severe bleeding in his body. When he was sent to the hospital, his life was hanging by a thread. It turned out that the couple had been working in other places, and the child had always been taken care of by his grandparents. When the child was 6 years old, the couple decided to send the child to boarding school. On the one hand, it can exercise the child's independence, and on the other hand, the safety of the child in the boarding school can be assured. The day of the incident happened to be Sunday, and there were no classes in school. Because the weather was too hot, he went to the school's canteen to buy an ice cream. He swallowed it in a few bites. After eating, he felt unsatisfied, so he went to the canteen to buy 2 more. Not long after eating, the boy felt that his stomach hurt a lot, and he fainted after a while. After learning that the boy had eaten 3 popsicles in a row, the doctor understood the reason. It turned out that cold drinks like ice cream, after entering the stomach cavity, will stimulate the emergency contraction of blood vessels. If they continue to expand and contract repeatedly, the blood vessels will spasm, leading to rupture and bleeding. Especially for children with weaker constitutions, such things will happen more frequently.

Here we would like to remind all parents not to give children too many cold drinks in summer to prevent similar incidents from happening again.

In the hot summer, cold drinks have become the favorite of many people. However, not everyone is suitable for cold drinks, and there are many things to pay attention to when eating cold drinks.

1. Which groups of people are not suitable for eating cold drinks?

Because of different physical conditions, different people have different tolerances to cold drinks. Young people are in their prime, and they may not feel uncomfortable if they occasionally eat cold food. But for the elderly, children, and women, they should be especially careful when drinking cold food.

Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, and atherosclerosis have decreased vascular elasticity to varying degrees, and their vascular self-regulation ability is poor. Sudden "cold" causes blood vessels to contract suddenly, and important organs such as the heart and brain consume more oxygen, which in turn causes blood pressure fluctuations, and even coronary artery thrombi to fall off and block blood vessels, thereby inducing angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, cerebral embolism, etc.; patients with aneurysms may even rupture their aneurysms after being exposed to cold and hot stimulation. Therefore, patients with the above diseases should be cautious about eating cold drinks.

Being unsuitable for eating does not mean that you cannot eat it. It just means that people of this type should eat less than the average person, or even better, not eat it at all. Furthermore, you should eat according to your ability.

2. There are some rules for eating cold drinks in summer

1. The best time to eat cold drinks

In order to avoid the harm caused by cold drinks, it is best to master the time taboos of eating cold drinks. It is best to eat it at noon. Noon to 3 pm is the best time to eat ice. Eat it one hour after a meal, hold it in your mouth for 5 seconds before swallowing. Eating cold drinks too quickly will stimulate the sympathetic nerves, causing blood vessels to contract quickly, inducing headaches. It is recommended that after the ice product enters the mouth, you can hold it in your mouth for about 5 seconds before slowly swallowing it. In addition, foods that can only be eaten at low temperatures, such as yogurt, can be taken out of the refrigerator and placed at room temperature for 10 minutes before eating.

It is best not to drink cold drinks at the following times: after strenuous exercise, when you are sweating profusely, when your body is very hot, during women's menstrual period, one week before and after menstruation, when you are on an empty stomach, when you have respiratory discomfort, headache, or muscle aches.

(II) “Safe Intake” of Cold Drinks

Although cold food, including cold drinks, can temporarily cool down the body, it is cold in nature. In order to reduce the stimulation of cold food to the body, healthy people should pay attention to the amount and way of eating.

Do not eat more than two ice creams or popsicles at a time. It is best to drink cold drinks in small sips and slowly, and do not drink more than half a bottle of bottled drinks at a time; for solid icy foods, you can hold them in the front of your mouth until they are close to body temperature before swallowing them slowly to reduce irritation to the brain blood vessels, throat and respiratory tract.

Don't rush to eat spicy food after eating cold drinks. Cold drinks are a cold stimulus to the gastrointestinal tract, so it is recommended not to eat spicy food after eating cold drinks. Otherwise, the cold stimulus plus the heat stimulus will easily put a great burden on the digestive system.

If you feel a headache when drinking cold drinks, you can press your tongue against the roof of your mouth to help it return to normal temperature. You can also cover your mouth and nose with your hands and breathe quickly to increase the amount of hot air entering the roof of your mouth and relieve headaches.

If you experience a headache after quickly consuming a large amount of cold food in hot weather, accompanied by tears, nausea, vomiting, etc., you may have an "ice cream headache". You should stop consuming cold drinks immediately, drink warm water to increase the temperature of your mouth, or massage the painful area to help relieve the contraction of blood vessels and muscles in the head, which can help alleviate the symptoms.

(III) Common Misconceptions about Eating Cold Drinks

1. Ice water to quench your thirst

In fact, ice water cannot quench your thirst. In order to maintain a certain temperature, the body will release more heat to balance the lowered body temperature caused by drinking ice water. In summer, you should drink more warm or cold water to replenish water.

2. Eat ice to cool down

Eating ice to cool down is more of a psychological effect than a practical one. Cold drinks are just a condiment. Making a cup of hot tea can open the pores, promote sweat secretion, and also act as a diuretic, which helps to cool down. In ancient my country, there was a saying that "hot tea is the best way to cool down."

3. Cooling tea

It is recommended to drink some herbal teas that can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, such as honeysuckle tea, chrysanthemum tea, sour plum soup, Imperata root and reed root tea, Ophiopogon japonicus and Dendrobium officinale, etc.; or eat some natural heat-clearing and heat-clearing foods, such as watermelon, cucumber, wax gourd, mung bean soup, bitter melon, loofah, lotus leaf, bamboo leaf, purslane, dandelion, etc. Since we sweat a lot in summer, we also need to prevent hypokalemia. We can use bananas to fight heat and supplement potassium. We need to remind everyone that whether it is scented tea or food, it is best to drink or eat it at room temperature.

After eating cold drinks, ginger is the best remedy. You can drink ginger tea or eat some dishes made with ginger. It should be reminded that after eating ice, the body temperature drops, and you cannot drink hot ginger tea immediately. You can drink some boiled water first, and then drink some ginger tea.

If the heat is unbearable, you can try other foods to relieve the heat. Bitter foods can relieve the heat, so you can eat more bitter melon, bitter vegetables and other bitter foods; lily and lotus seeds can be boiled into porridge to relieve the heat.

In summer, it is recommended that you drink more warm water to replenish water, and it is not recommended to drink too much beverages. Cold drinks can be used as a form of hydration, but they cannot completely replace hot drinks.

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Finally, I would like to recommend a bitter melon honey tea: Bitter melon honey tea is a drink that combines bitter melon and honey. It has the heat-clearing, detoxifying and fire-reducing effects of bitter melon, as well as the nourishing and beauty effects of honey.

Preparation method of bitter melon honey tea:

Ingredients: Fresh bitter gourd or dried bitter gourd, honey and water

step:

1. Wash the fresh bitter gourd and cut it into thin slices. Or take an appropriate amount of dried bitter gourd.

2. Fresh bitter melon: Soak fresh bitter melon slices in ice water for 30 minutes and then take them out.

3. Put fresh bitter melon slices or dried bitter melon into a container and add appropriate amount of boiling water and simmer for 10 minutes.

4. Wait until the bitter melon water cools to warm (about 60-70 degrees), add appropriate amount of honey and stir evenly.

5. You can adjust the amount of honey according to your personal taste, but be careful not to add honey to overheated water to avoid destroying the nutrients in the honey.

**Note:** Bitter melon is cold in nature, so drinking it every day is not suitable for everyone. It is generally recommended not to exceed 1-2 cups per day.