In daily life, people eat betel nuts as snacks, cut fresh green betel nuts into small pieces, and chew the pulp and stone at the same time and spit them out. When making betel nuts, lime and many spices are added to increase the taste of betel nuts. After chewing, you will feel refreshing and cold in your mouth, which can effectively refresh yourself.

However, everything has two sides. Although betel nut has many benefits, it also has certain harm. The World Health Organization lists betel nut as the first carcinogen, because chewing betel nut for a long time is easy to induce oral cancer. Indian is a country that loves eat areca, and many people in Taiwan Province province of China also like to chew betel nut, so the incidence of male oral cancer in these two regions is much higher than that in other regions and countries.

You can chew some betel nuts properly in your daily life, but you should not eat too much eat areca. You need to grasp the consumption.

Precautions for expanding data:

The Action Plan for Healthy Oral Cavity (20 19—2025) issued by the General Office of the National Health and Wellness Committee puts forward that in areas with betel nut chewing habits, we should focus on the harm of long-term chewing betel nut to oral health, carry out targeted publicity and education and oral health examination, and promote early diagnosis and treatment of periodontal and oral mucosal diseases. Experts say that chewing betel nut for a long time has the risk of oral cancer.

People in some southern provinces of China have the habit of chewing betel nut, which leads to an increase in the incidence of oral cancer. Early arecoline gradually leads to oral mucosal fibrosis. Patients will have symptoms such as limited mouth opening, limited tongue movement, loss of mucosal elasticity and ulceration, as well as pain and difficulty in eating. This is a precancerous lesion before oral cancer occurs. Moreover, betel nut is highly addictive and will turn into oral cancer after a long time.

Betel nut chewing tablets are generally composed of betel nut, old vine and quicklime, and some flue-cured tobacco and spices are added in some areas. Additives such as lime, clove, tobacco leaves and betel nut seeds all contain some carcinogens, and the occurrence of oral cancer is directly proportional to the time of chewing betel nut and the time of betel nut staying in the mouth.

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