Litchi contains methyl cyclopropyl glycine, which can lower blood sugar. If you eat too much litchi, it is easy to cause hypotension and dizziness, which is called "litchi disease" in medicine.

Litchi contains a lot of sugar, of which fructose accounts for the vast majority. After fructose enters the digestive tract, it will be absorbed by the capillaries on the gastrointestinal mucosa and enter the blood. As we know, fructose belongs to polysaccharide and cannot be directly digested and absorbed by human body. It needs to be converted into glucose through the liver to be absorbed by the human body.

If you eat a lot of litchi, there will be a lot of fructose that needs to be converted by the liver. However, fructose invertase is limited and can't convert fructose in time, which leads to fructose accumulation in blood vessels and can't be converted into glucose in time to be absorbed and utilized by the body. At this time, because the body eats too many lychees, the appetite decreases, and the body can't get other nutritional supplies, which will lead to the decrease of glucose in the blood and the decrease of blood pressure. This is the so-called "litchi disease".

What are the symptoms of litchi disease?

If you eat too much litchi, you will feel dizzy, palpitation, pallor, fatigue and weakness, and may be accompanied by symptoms such as hunger and thirst, or abdominal pain and diarrhea. In severe cases, you may also have coma, paroxysmal convulsions, pupil constriction, arrhythmia and blood pressure drop. If the symptoms are serious, it may be life-threatening. If the above-mentioned bad symptoms cannot be alleviated in time, you need to seek medical advice in time.

How should litchi disease be treated?

Eating too much litchi unfortunately leads to litchi diseases and should be actively treated. If the patient only has mild symptoms such as dizziness, fatigue and sweating, it is recommended to lie flat immediately, take glucose water or white sugar water, and supplement glucose in time to relieve hypoglycemia symptoms. We know that things often have two sides, yin and yang. Food has a "poisonous" side, and it may also have an "antidote". If you have symptoms of hypotension, you can also take it with boiled water from litchi shells, which can solve the "litchi disease". If the patient has severe symptoms such as convulsion, collapse and shock, he should be sent to the hospital immediately for treatment. Doctors can quickly relieve symptoms by intravenous injection of glucose, and there will be no sequelae after cure.

Although litchi is good, you shouldn't eat more. It is suggested that adults should not eat more than 300 grams of litchi at a time, and children should not eat more than 5. It should be delicious food, and litchi should not become a "poison" that harms the body.