Drinking porridge like this actually hurts your stomach? Drinking congee to nourish the stomach has a lot to learn

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According to some traditional concepts and habits of the Chinese people, it is natural to “porridge” and “health” linked together. But in fact, “porridge stomach” does not apply to all people, porridge drinking is not right, not only does not stomach, but also may aggravate stomach problems. Today we will talk about this topic.

01Drinking congee improperly aggravates stomach problems

After a long rest at night, the stomach is still in a state of contraction, porridge on the bit of stimulation is small, drink it in easy to decompose into glucose and by the human body, absorption and utilization, can quickly rise sugar, which greatly reduces the burden on the stomach and intestines, and at the same time can replenish water. So, when the gastric power is insufficient, a bowl of porridge is still beneficial to the stomach and intestines.

But porridge after a long time of simmering, part of the nutrients will be destroyed in the process, nutrition greatly reduced at the same time due to the porridge without chewing, so it is not conducive to promote salivary secretion. In addition, long-term porridge is not conducive to the digestive function of the stomach, equivalent to a kind of overprotection of the stomach, leading to the stomach’s digestive ability will be worse and worse. After all, porridge has more water, which will dilute the gastric juice, accelerate the expansion of the stomach, and make the stomach movement slow.

02Long-term consumption of congee is likely to cause gastric function deterioration

(1) aggravate GERD. Porridge contains more water, and fluid food into the stomach too quickly lead to pressure, is not conducive to neutralize the secretion of gastric acid, for gastroesophageal reflux disease patients to drink porridge instead of aggravate acid reflux, heartburn.

(2) Not conducive to the repair and healing of gastric wounds. It is said that drinking porridge can promote the rapid absorption of glucose, but for the normal dietary structure, its nutritional composition is too single, to provide people with limited nutritional value, is not conducive to the repair and healing of gastric wounds. Moreover, drinking congee will stimulate the secretion of gastric acid, which will further aggravate the damage of the wound.

(3) Decline in digestive function. Often say drink porridge, because porridge is stewed for a long time without chewing teeth to eat, long-term porridge will lead to the degeneration of the chewing organs, the oral secretion of saliva to reduce the secretion of amylase, that is, a lot of salivary enzymes have to promote digestion and absorption of the function. And porridge in the stomach to stay a short period of time, long-term stomach peristalsis will be weakened, digestive function degradation, is not conducive to “stomach”.

(4) Increase blood sugar fluctuation. Porridge after a long time boiled into food, easy to be digested and absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract and rapid glucose rapid absorption after the rapid decline in blood glucose, resulting in greater fluctuations in blood glucose in the human body, is not conducive to blood glucose control.

03People who are suitable for congee

(1) The elderly gastric mucous membrane atrophy and the function of gastric wall cells decreases, gastrointestinal tract power is insufficient, so you can eat porridge appropriately to promote the secretion of gastric acid and reduce the burden of the digestive system. In order to increase the nutrition, you can add some supplementary ingredients in the porridge to enrich the nutrition and increase the chewing time at the same time. For example, you can usually drink some millet porridge, yam porridge, pumpkin porridge, etc., these porridges can play a role in protecting the gastric mucosa stomach.

(2) postoperative and severe diarrhea, vomiting patients are recommended to eat appropriate fluid and semi-fluid food, this time you can consider drinking porridge. For example, acute gastroenteritis patients stomach, vomiting and diarrhea at the same time may be dehydrated, eating porridge can be appropriate to replenish water and some glucose, to maintain body water balance. There are also in the gastroscopy enteroscopy biopsy polyp removal surgery, drinking porridge can avoid friction fresh wounds, reduce local irritation, help the gastrointestinal tract function recovery.