Eating more watermelon can lead to mouth and tongue sores

In the hot summer, watermelon is highly favored by the people for its coolness and heat. Some people even love to eat watermelon, eat several times a day, sometimes even eat half a melon. But some people eat watermelon inexplicably mouth and tongue sores, even half of the face is swollen, can not open their mouths, can not eat, speak are difficult, suffering. What's going on here?

The Chinese medicine believes that watermelon is cool and moist, sweet taste, with the efficacy of heat relief, but over-eating is damage to the stomach, affecting the digestive function of the stomach, resulting in food stagnation, depression and heat, the stomach fire extends to the oral cavity, resulting in mouth ulcers, gingivitis, tongue inflammation and so on.

Modern medicine believes that watermelon is more sugar-containing fruits and melons, with high osmotic, overfeeding is easy to damage the mucous membrane, resulting in mouth ulcers. At the same time, watermelon has a diuretic effect, overfeeding will leak potassium, so that people lose urine, more prone to fire. Especially children, their own resistance is low, coupled with the oral mucosa delicate, insufficient water, more likely to cause disease.

In short, although the watermelon is good, can not eat, eat more, otherwise it will cause trouble.