The first meal after the lockdown is over: hot pot, skewers, barbecue and milk tea! Huaxi doctor: If you don’t want to go to the emergency room, read this article

When this article was published, there was already a lot of noise outside.

Last night was even more lively. Chengdu residents checked their own streets while cheering happily at home: The lockdown is over!!! (Except for the friends in brackets)

Although we cannot travel freely across regions, and some places still do not allow dining in (but allow takeout), the optimistic Chengdu people asked in their WeChat Moments as soon as they heard the news of the lifting of the lockdown:

Where to eat hotpot for the first meal after the lockdown?

There is nothing that a hot pot can’t solve! However, Professor Wan Meihua and Doctor Kang Hongxin from the Center for Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine of West China Hospital of Sichuan University would like to remind everyone: Can’t help eating too much? Be careful of acute pancreatitis!

Don't believe it, acute pancreatitis is caused by eating

It may even cause sudden death!

I know you must have eaten a lot during these days at home, but when the good news of the lifting of the lockdown came out, your child couldn’t help it, right?

Hot pot, barbecue, crayfish, milk tea, everything is prepared, and you can eat something different every few days!

Is it good? Yes! But please don’t be too good!

Dr. Huaxi said that the more you eat now, the more severe the pancreatitis will be!

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It’s just pancreatitis, how can it be cured?

If you think like this, acute pancreatitis will laugh its face off. If you are indifferent to it, it can just show its full strength!

Clinically, acute pancreatitis is generally divided into three levels: mild, moderate, and severe .

If you don't listen to advice and eat too much and get mild acute pancreatitis , you are lucky. Generally, you can recover in about one week after treatment with a combination of Chinese and Western medicine.

If it is moderately severe or severe acute pancreatitis , it is more dangerous. Once it occurs, in addition to persistent severe abdominal pain, abdominal distension, vomiting and other symptoms (mild acute pancreatitis also has these symptoms);

Moderately severe acute pancreatitis is accompanied by transient (≤ 48 hours) organ dysfunction and/or local complications such as lung, kidney, and heart, and the mortality rate increases;

Severe acute pancreatitis can cause persistent (>48 hours) organ dysfunction or even failure, and the mortality rate is very high, reaching more than **50%**.

ask

That's not right, it's overeating that offends the pancreas? Shouldn't the stomach be the first to be offended?

This is a good question!

If you eat too much and feel bloated, the first thing to suffer is definitely the gastrointestinal tract. Eating too much will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, causing indigestion, gastrointestinal dysfunction, gastroenteritis, etc.

In addition, it will stimulate the secretion of large amounts of pancreatic juice and bile (for friends with gallstones, gallstones may migrate and remain in the bile duct, become lodged in the ampulla, etc.).

▶ If pancreatic juice is not secreted smoothly, the pressure in the pancreatic duct will increase, causing ectopic activation and release of trypsinogen in the pancreas, resulting in self-digestion of the pancreas, edema, bleeding, and even necrosis of the pancreatic tissue. This is acute pancreatitis .

▶ If inflammatory factors are excessively released, inducing a cascade reaction, it will lead to systemic inflammatory response syndrome, (multiple) organ dysfunction and develop into severe acute pancreatitis .

If you happen to drink a lot of alcohol and eat a lot of greasy, high-fat foods, the secretion of pancreatic juice will be even more "unstoppable". Especially for those who already have gallstones and hyperlipidemia, you should pay special attention!

The most important thing about the treatment of acute pancreatitis is speed . The earlier the treatment, the better. The golden period for treatment is within 72 hours of onset. The longer you delay, the more dangerous it is! In particular, the combination of Chinese and Western medicine is recommended!

Eat and eat

It's not just the pancreas that's offended

If you have eaten for several meals in a row without any problems, don't be complacent or smug, because overeating will not only offend the stomach, intestines and pancreas.

Eating too much and feeling bloated will also increase the blood flow to the gastrointestinal tract, indirectly affecting the blood supply to the heart and brain, and inducing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Then, if you consume too much fat and protein and fail to utilize them effectively, it will lead to obesity, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and other diseases in the long run.

Overeating can cause a sharp increase in blood uric acid in the body, greatly increasing the probability of acute gout attacks.

You see, just because you eat a few more bites out of revenge, the discomfort of a bloated stomach is still a minor problem. It would be troublesome if all the organs in your body protested.

How to eat healthy after the lockdown

A few commonplace points

Finally, I still have to talk about the old question: how to eat healthily after the lockdown is lifted.

I believe that everyone has read countless popular science articles, but how many people really listen to them? Most people still choose to eat and drink to satisfy their mouths first and then talk about other things.

I am not saying this to persuade you not to eat hotpot, skewers, barbecue, etc. After all, most of the doctors at West China Hospital are foodies themselves.

To sum it up is: regular and quantitative, gradual and appropriate.

Regular and quantitative

The scientific diet is basically regular and quantitative. You should eat three meals a day on time, eat less or no snacks or supper. Some people skip breakfast and dinner in order to lose weight, and only eat some fruit at noon.

Those who know you are losing weight may think you are cultivating immortality. By the way, dieting is not only very harmful to the body, but once you resume a normal diet, your weight will rebound...

Light diet

After the lockdown is lifted, everyone should try to maintain a light diet, eat more fruits, vegetables and other foods rich in dietary fiber, and eat less greasy, spicy and sweet foods. Of course, hot pot and skewers are also allowed, but don't eat too spicy or overeat.

Especially for friends who have suffered from pancreatitis, they must eat less or try not to eat greasy foods such as smoked, braised, fried, stir-fried, barbecued, hot pot, and skewers.

Exercise more

That’s right, it’s exercise again. Proper diet + proper exercise can restore our cardiopulmonary function and help digestion. Most importantly, if you exercise correctly, you will naturally have a six-pack. Isn’t this better than dieting? The only bug is that lazy people will automatically be immune to this…

“As the epidemic situation improves, the bustling Chengdu is back.

After being quarantined at home for so long, few people can resist the temptation of the smell of hot pot all over the streets.

Let me emphasize again that this push from Dr. West China is not to advise you not to go out to restaurants, it just hopes that everyone can eat healthily and be in good health!

"After all, Dr. Huaxi is so cute.

What bad intentions could there be?

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