1, irritating food
Patients with colitis should not eat irritating foods and condiments such as onion, ginger, garlic, pepper and mustard, because these foods can cause chemical stimulation to the damaged intestinal wall, thus aggravating tissue damage and aggravating the condition.
2. Avoid eating raw vegetables and fruits.
Patients with colitis should avoid eating raw vegetables and fruits, because these foods are not suitable for digestion and are easy to form residues, which will cause mechanical stimulation and damage to the ulcer surface, and even cause pain and aggravate the ulcer.
3, do not eat flatulence food
Lettuce, garlic, beans, radish, pumpkin, sweet potato, etc. It is easy to produce a lot of gas in the intestine, which will promote intestinal peristalsis and is not suitable for eating. In addition, some patients will also produce gas when drinking milk, so patients with colitis should also drink as little milk as possible.
4. Avoid eating high-fat foods.
The ability of colonitis patients to digest and absorb fat is weakened, and it is easy to produce fatty diarrhea, which further affects the digestive and absorption function of the intestine, thus aggravating the condition. Therefore, patients with colitis should not eat greasy and fried food.
5. Don't eat foods containing much fiber.
Patients with colitis should try to limit dietary fiber, and any food containing cellulose should be chopped, such as leeks, radishes and celery. Because cellulose can stimulate intestinal peristalsis in the intestine and aggravate inflammatory lesions.
6. Do not eat allergic food.
If you have colitis, you must pay special attention to your diet. If you find yourself uncomfortable after eating a certain food, make sure you are allergic to this food, make a good record and resolutely avoid it in the future.
7. Avoid eating alkaline food.
Alkaline food will hinder the digestion and absorption of oil and protein, which is harmful to the health of patients with colitis. Such as alkaline noodles, Lamian Noodles, steamed bread with alkaline noodles, fried dough sticks, biscuits and snacks containing alkali or soda, soda water, alkaline ionized water, spinach with red roots, wild vegetables (Mazha, Ulmus pumila, Sophora japonica, jujube, Chinese cabbage, shepherd's purse, bitter vegetables, bracken, etc. ), day lily, banana, persimmon, etc.
8. The cause of colitis
1, intestinal bacterial or viral infection
The manifestations of colitis are similar to some infectious diarrhea, such as bacillary dysentery and amebic dysentery, so some people suggest that the onset of colitis may be related to infection.
2. Genetic factors
The incidence of colitis varies greatly among different races, among which the incidence of white people is much higher than that of yellow people and black people; In addition, about 15%-30% of the immediate family members of patients with ulcerative colitis can suffer from the same disease. It can be inferred that the pathogenesis of colitis may be related to genetic factors.
3. Autoimmune factors
The occurrence of this disease is related to autoimmune reaction. Through the observation of many patients with colitis, it is found that stopping eating certain foods can alleviate the condition. In addition, the disease also coexists with some immune diseases, such as erythema nodosum, purpura, nodular inflammation and drug allergy. Adrenal hormone has a high therapeutic effect on this disease; Colon antibodies can be found in patients' serum, which indicates that the pathogenesis of colitis may be related to immune factors.
4. Excessive secretion of lysozyme
After some patients are infected with intestinal bacteria, the intestinal wall will secrete a lot of lysozyme, which will dissolve the mucus in the intestinal wall and make the intestinal mucosa lose its protective layer, leading to the invasion of pathogenic microorganisms, but its lysozyme will decrease after recovery.
5, neuropsychiatric factors
Mental factors play a role in the pathogenesis of colitis. Patients with colitis generally have certain personality characteristics, and people with poor psychological endurance and adaptability to major events in life are more likely to get sick.
6. Understanding of Colitis in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the occurrence of this disease is mainly related to congenital endowment deficiency and acquired spleen and stomach dysfunction. Every time you feel exogenous evil, careless diet or anxiety and anger, you can induce and aggravate your illness. Exogenous damp-heat pathogen leads to gastrointestinal qi and blood block; Or feel cold and wet, cold and wet hurt the gastrointestinal tract and blocked the large intestine; Or eating fat and sweet, causing damp heat to accumulate in the intestine; Or because of overeating cold fruits and vegetables, cold-dampness block and stomach; Or because of emotional disorder, liver depression multiplied by spleen, resulting in abnormal transport function of spleen, resulting in dampness blocking gastrointestinal tract. These factors will cause the obstruction of intestinal qi, which is not conducive to the passage and decline, and this disease occurs.