During the Spring Festival gathering, if you don’t pay attention to these 3 points, danger may occur, so don’t take it lightly!

The Spring Festival is approaching, and it is time to visit relatives and friends, reunite with family, feast on delicious food, clink glasses, and toast.

Everyone gets together to enjoy delicious food, talk about their hearts, and feel the strong flavor of the New Year and family affection. However, during this period, some careless diet and habits may also induce a variety of diseases.

Eating hard food

While enjoying the food at the Spring Festival dinner table, we should also pay attention to food safety. When we are in high spirits and chatting and laughing, it is easy to lose focus, causing fish bones, bones, peanuts, melon seeds, cold rice cakes and other foreign objects to be swallowed accidentally, get stuck in the throat or esophagus, and cause digestive tract bleeding and other accidents.

During the Chinese New Year, many families will put coins, nuts and other things in dumplings to bring good luck, but this is very dangerous for some special groups such as children, the elderly and patients with a history of gastrointestinal bleeding, and it is also easy to cause problems such as throat choking and gastrointestinal infection. Once an accident happens, you should stop eating immediately, minimize swallowing movements, stay calm, and do not try to force swallowing to prevent puncturing the esophagus, trachea or large blood vessels. "Folk remedies" such as drinking vinegar often do not work.

In addition, pay attention to whether the foreign body is stuck in a shallow position such as the tonsils or the root of the tongue. If so, you can try to gently pick it out with tweezers or chopsticks, but be careful not to use too much force or try blindly. If you experience symptoms such as difficulty breathing, choking, and chest pain, you need to go to the hospital for treatment in time.

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In addition, fish bones, dried shrimps and Shandong pancakes are also foods that are often seen in clinical practice and are prone to cause gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis. This is because patients with underlying diseases such as cirrhosis often have varicose veins on the esophagus and stomach wall due to portal hypertension. When eating hard foods, there is a risk of slicing varicose veins and causing massive gastrointestinal bleeding. Therefore, special groups are reminded to avoid eating them as much as possible.

Heavy drinking

China is a country that loves wine. No feast is complete without wine. Wine plays various roles on the table. During the Spring Festival, there are more opportunities to toast than usual! However, excessive drinking may cause acute poisoning of the central nervous system, which can lead to symptoms such as impaired consciousness, behavioral disorders and coma.

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The symptoms of acute alcohol poisoning are divided into three stages: excitement, ataxia and lethargy.

During the excitement phase, the patient will experience symptoms such as emotional agitation, increased speech, and irritability. As the amount of alcohol consumed increases, the patient will enter the ataxia phase, which manifests as uncoordinated movements, unsteady walking, slurred speech, etc. If the patient continues to drink, the patient will enter the lethargy phase, which manifests as coma, slow or stopped breathing, accelerated heartbeat, and other serious symptoms, which may even lead to death.

In addition, it may also induce alcoholic liver disease, which manifests as nausea, vomiting, fatigue, loss of appetite, pain in the right upper abdomen or under the right ribs, as well as fever or yellowing of the skin and sclera.

In addition, patients with underlying diseases such as liver cirrhosis should pay special attention to the fact that alcohol is an important culprit that can cause liver cirrhosis and is also a clear carcinogen for liver cancer. For patients who have already developed liver cirrhosis, the liver has already had irreversible major problems. If alcohol, an accomplice that damages the liver, is added to daily life, it is simply adding insult to injury.

Improper diet

It is also easy to cause a variety of digestive tract diseases

1. Acute gastroenteritis

Due to improper diet, overeating, eating unclean or spicy food, etc., the gastrointestinal mucosa is damaged, thus triggering an inflammatory response.

2. Acute cholecystitis

It is caused by obstruction of the gallbladder duct and bacterial infection. Overeating, alcoholism, and eating large amounts of greasy, high-fat, and high-calorie foods are common causes of acute cholecystitis.

3. Acute pancreatitis

Excessive drinking, overeating, and eating too much greasy food will stimulate the secretion of pancreatic juice. Excessive pancreatic juice cannot be discharged smoothly, causing acute pancreatitis.

4. Gastrointestinal bleeding

Bad eating habits such as overeating and heavy-tasting food may increase the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding. Alcohol and spicy food can especially irritate the gastric mucosa, causing gastric mucosal damage and inflammation. When the gastric mucosa is severely damaged, it may also cause gastrointestinal bleeding.

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5. Peptic ulcer

Its formation is related to many factors, among which excessive eating and drinking are two important risk factors for peptic ulcer.

6. Helicobacter pylori infection

During the Spring Festival, there are many gatherings. Bad eating habits can increase the chance of Helicobacter pylori infection, causing chronic gastritis, peptic ulcers and other diseases, and may even develop into gastric cancer. Summary: Eat regularly during the Spring Festival, avoid overeating and drinking a lot, control the amount and speed of food intake, eat less greasy and high-fat foods, and try to reduce the burden on the stomach. Do not eat raw or cold food, drink boiled water instead of raw water, and wash fruits and vegetables before eating.

Try to maintain good dining habits, pay attention to personal hygiene and food hygiene, wash hands before and after meals. When dining in groups, use disposable tableware, avoid sharing food, implement a separate dining system, and use public chopsticks and spoons. In addition, pay attention to food safety and chew slowly, do not talk while eating, and the elderly, children and other special groups should pay more attention and avoid laughing, running, playing, etc.

Planning and production

This article is a work of Science Popularization China-Starry Sky Project

Produced by: Science Popularization Department of China Association for Science and Technology

Producer: China Science and Technology Press Co., Ltd., Beijing Zhongke Xinghe Culture Media Co., Ltd.

Author: Li Tian, ​​Chief Physician, Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University

Yan Jie Director of the Department of Hepatology, Ditan Hospital

Reviewer: Tang Qin, Director and Researcher of the Science Popularization Department of the Chinese Medical Association