Many people suffer from stomach problems due to improper diet and other reasons, but most people don’t even know that they have stomach problems, so it is very important to understand the symptoms of stomach problems. So what are the symptoms of stomach trouble? How to nourish the stomach if you have stomach problems?
1. What are the symptoms of stomach trouble?
(1) Appetite changes
People with stomach trouble often have changes in appetite. Sometimes hyperappetite is manifested as feeling hungry easily, and often one feels hungry shortly after finishing a meal, indicating that the secretory function of the stomach has been strengthened, which is common in the early stages of gastric ulcer.
Another common condition is loss of appetite and an inability to eat, resulting in significant weight loss in a short period of time. If it is not due to temporary emotional influence, it may be a problem with the stomach or other organs. This type of loss of appetite is more common in chronic atrophic gastritis and gastric malignant tumors.
(2) Acid swallowing, noise, and heartburn
This is the most common symptom after stomach trouble.
Acid swallowing is vomiting acidic water after a meal; noisyness is an uncomfortable feeling in the stomach after a meal; heartburn is a burning sensation in the pit of the heart. The simultaneous occurrence of these three symptoms is mainly due to excessive gastric acid secretion, which stimulates the lower part of the esophagus and causes spasm of the cardia. It is common in chronic hypertrophic gastritis and gastric ulcer.
(3) Pain
People with stomach problems often feel stomach pain or pain in different parts of the abdomen. Inflamed or congested gastric mucosa lacks protective mucus on the surface, so small stimuli can cause pain. For example, the corrosive effect of gastric acid produced in the patient's own stomach can cause pain.
According to the patient's own feeling, the pain is mostly in the upper abdomen, sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right. This pain often radiates to the ribs or back, with varying degrees of pain. Patients with gastric ulcers may experience pain if If it is severe, attention should be paid to the possibility of gastric perforation.
The pain of most patients with ulcers is closely related to their diet. It is not necessarily related to pain in patients with gastritis and tumors.
(4) Vomiting and nausea
People with stomach problems often feel nauseous and sometimes vomit. Suffering from acute gastritis. For people with esophagitis or duodenal inflammation, the stomach is irritated, causing violent movements of the stomach through nerve action and causing vomiting. If food stays in the stomach for too long, fermentation and putrefaction may irritate the mucous membrane and may also cause vomiting. This is mostly due to pyloric stenosis. Severe vomiting may contain yellow bile and even a small amount of blood.
(5) Stomach bleeding
People with gastric diseases (ulcers, tumors, gastritis, etc.) sometimes have a small amount of gastric bleeding, which is excreted with the stool, but cannot be seen by the naked eye.
But when the amount of bleeding exceeds 50 ml, the stool turns black, called tarry stool; if the amount of bleeding exceeds 500 to 1000 ml at one time, it often causes vomiting of blood, which is often dark red and mixed with Food, this may be complicated by hemorrhagic shock.
(6) Rapid weight loss
Generally, stomach problems do not affect weight, unless you do not eat for a long time, weight will decrease. If you lose 5 to 10 kilograms of weight for no reason in a short period of time (1 to 2 months), you may have to consider whether you have gastric cancer or other malignant tumors.
(7) Changes in the nervous system
People with stomach problems are more or less accompanied by symptoms of neurasthenia, such as insomnia, dizziness, weakness, low work efficiency, and memory loss. Wait for performance.
(8) Tips
When you feel uncomfortable with your stomach or anything else, and your symptoms have not improved, you must go to the hospital immediately for early detection and early treatment. To prevent delays in timely diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
2. What is the best food for people with stomach problems?
(1) Dietary principles
Patients with stomach problems should pay attention to a reasonable diet. Eat meals regularly and regularly to establish gastric reflex activity. Eat more foods that are easy to digest. Most porridges are easy to digest and can warm and protect the stomach, especially millet porridge. Patients with stomach problems are also picky about the temperature of food. Take "not hot, not cold" as the measure. Try to eat as little food as possible that is difficult to digest and irritates the stomach. You may wish to eat the following medicinal meals:
(2) Assorted yam
Ingredients
1500 grams of yam, raisins, lotus seeds, candied dates, green plums, and rice cakes 30 each gram. 15 grams each of kelp shreds, carrot shreds, and melon seeds, 80 grams of white sugar, and appropriate amounts of vegetable oil and water starch.
Method
1. Rinse lotus seeds with water and cut green plums into cubes. Take a bowl, apply a layer of vegetable oil, put melon seeds, raisins, kelp shreds, carrot shreds, lotus seeds, candied dates, and green plums in the bowl.
2. Wash the yam, steam it, peel it, press it into a puree, add sugar and mix well, put half of it into a bowl with assorted dried fruits. Put the rice cake on the yam paste, and then put the other half of the yam paste on the rice cake.
3. Put the bowl into the steamer and steam for 40 minutes, take it out and flip it onto a plate. Remove from the pot and add 150 ml of boiling water. After heating, add honey and sugar to boil. When the water thickens, thicken the gravy with an appropriate amount of water starch, and pour the gravy juice onto the yam puree.
Notes
Applicable people: Suitable for people with indigestion and anemia. Ordinary people take Nengjian brand to nourish their stomach.
Usage: Take 2 times a day, morning and evening with meals.
(3) Astragalus and stomach-tonifying dates
Materials
60 grams of honey-roasted astragalus, 10 grams of orange peel, 1000 grams of black dates, vegetable oil, white sugar, and rice wine Just the right amount.
Method
1. Wash the black dates. Then pour a small amount of water on the surface of the orange peel and astragalus. Make it fluffy.
2. Put the washed black dates, orange peel, and astragalus into a large porcelain basin, then add sugar, vegetable oil, and rice wine into the large porcelain basin, mix well, and set aside.
3. Take a clean steamer and add water. Put on the steamer. Place a large porcelain basin on top and steam over high heat for 3 hours.
Notes
Applicable people: Suitable for auxiliary dietary therapy for patients with qi deficiency, fatigue, weakness, spontaneous sweating, etc. Regular eating can enhance the physiological function of the stomach and help patients with gastroptosis regain health.
Usage: Eat 5 black dates after lunch and dinner every day, drink half a spoon of soup, 3 months is a course of treatment. People with weak yin and strong fire constitution or strong bodies should not take it. At the same time, avoid eating cold, spicy and greasy food.
(4) Steamed mutton with ginseng and qi root
Ingredients
500 grams of cooked mutton rib meat. 20 grams of shiitake mushrooms. 10 grams of water-fat magnolia slices. 15 grams each of Codonopsis pilosula and Astragalus membranaceus, appropriate amounts of onion segments, ginger slices, Sichuan peppercorns, salt, chicken essence, pepper, clear soup, and chicken soup.
Method
1. Put Codonopsis pilosula and Astragalus root into a casserole. Boil 2 times with clean water until 30 ml of the medicinal liquid remains. Remove the dregs and take the medicinal liquid for later use.
2. Wash the mutton and cut into slices; wash the shiitake mushrooms and magnolia slices separately and set aside.
3. Take a large bowl, place the magnolia slices, shiitake mushrooms, and mutton neatly on top, add green onion slices, ginger slices, pepper, salt,
chicken essence, and pepper. , chicken soup and ginseng liquid, hold it with a plate, steam it for 30 minutes and take it out.
Notes
Applicable people: Suitable for auxiliary treatment of diseases such as weak spleen and stomach, lack of food, chronic diarrhea, gastroptosis and other diseases.
Usage: as a food supplement.
(5) Hericium mushroom stewed chicken
Ingredients
100 grams of Hericium, 1 hen, 10 grams of red dates, sliced ??ginger and green onions , cooking wine and salt in appropriate amounts.
Method
1. Wash the Hericium erinaceus and remove the stems. After soaking, squeeze out the remaining water in the mushrooms to remove the bitterness. Then cut into slices and set aside.
2. Remove the head and feet of the hen, cut into pieces, and put into the stew pot.
3. Add ginger slices, green onion segments, cooking wine, and water. Add Hericium slices and red dates, simmer slowly over low heat until the meat is cooked and tender, then add salt.
Notes
Applicable people: Suitable for those suffering from chronic gastritis and duodenal ulcer.
Usage: 2 times a week.
3. What’s wrong with stomachache after drinking tea?
(1) Stomachache caused by tea drunkenness
If there are no health problems, then stomachache after drinking tea is the biggest cause It may be tea drunkenness. Drinking tea can make you drunk just like drinking alcohol. Drinking alcohol can cause drunkenness due to the concentration of alcohol in the blood being too high. Drinking tea can cause drunkenness due to the wrong time and method of drinking tea. Drinking tea on an empty stomach and drinking tea on an empty stomach can lead to drunkenness. All of them can easily cause tea drunkenness, and stomachache is one of the symptoms of tea drunkenness.
(2) Caffeine stimulates stomach pain
Everyone knows that tea has a certain stimulating effect on nerves and can make people excited. However, they do not know that tea can also stimulate the stomach and cause a large amount of stomach pain. The secretion of gastric juice, especially the xanthine substances contained in tea, has a continuous stimulating effect on the stomach. The content of this substance in strong tea is higher, and the xanthine substance also has the effect of gathering caffeine, which is responsible for the onset of gastric ulcers. One of the main factors that can cause stomach pain.
(3) Stomach cold causes stomach pain
It is said that the stomach is deficient and cold, and tea is said to be cold. People with deficient spleen and stomach will suffer from stomach pain when mixed with cool or cold tea. It can cause discomfort in the body, such as stomachache, indigestion, and even diarrhea. Therefore, before drinking tea, you must figure out what kind of constitution you have. People with weak spleen and stomach are suitable to drink black tea and fermented tea. It has stomach-warming effect.
(4) Recurrence of gastric problems
Patients with gastric problems also have many friends who like to drink tea. However, friends with gastritis, gastric ulcer, and excessive gastric acid secretion are not suitable for drinking tea. Once they drink tea, they will Stomach pain may occur, but patients with stomach problems who have insufficient gastric secretion can drink tea appropriately to promote gastric acid secretion, help digestion, and improve gastric function.
(5) What to do if you get stomachache after drinking tea
The reasons for stomachache after drinking tea have been explained. According to the above causes of stomachache, several methods to prevent stomachache are proposed.
1. It is not advisable to drink strong tea and first-course tea when drinking tea, as tea drunkenness may easily occur. Friends who are new to tea drinking must start with light tea and slowly adjust to strong tea, and do not drink strong tea impatiently.
2. It is not advisable to drink tea on an empty stomach. It will cause greater irritation to the stomach and may easily cause stomach pain.
3. Friends who have stomach problems need to determine what type of stomach problems they are. If it is inflammation, they must not drink tea. If they have less gastric acid secretion, they can drink tea appropriately.