Kamis, 07 April 2011

Top 3 Myths about Your Stomach Treatment

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Myth # 1: porridge is the best for your stomach. Many patients with stomach problem eat soft Porridge, can easy to digest, can reduce the burden on the stomach.

In fact, this view is not comprehensive. Compared to fried food, not fermented bread, noodles, boiled corn, steamed steamed corn bread, etc., porridge is soft, easy to digest, but the porridge is not conducive to digestion and absorption. The reason is that porridge without chewing slowly, can not promote the oral secretion of the salivary glands, and amylase in the saliva can help digestion, addition of water and more porridge, dilute the gastric juice, accelerated the expansion of the stomach, so that slow gastric motility, is not conducive to Digestion and absorption. If you like to drink hot porridge, the temperature on the stimulation of the stomach is bad. Therefore, patients should not stomach porridge every day, but should select absorption of dietary digestible, slowly, to promote digestion, it is more useful.

Myth # 2: Drinking milk is good for the stomach. Stomach soreness is not timely, a cup of hot milk can relieve symptoms and feel comfortable. This is because milk diluted acid, the temporary protective layer to form a layer of gastric mucosa, and thus feel comfortable, but regular milk may not be beneficial to the patients on the stomach. Has been shown to stimulate gastric acid secretion of milk than the milk itself and the role of gastric acid more, if the stomach (eg gastric ulcer) requires acid treatment is not used to drink the milk solution. Soy milk is a good choice.

Myth # 3: Cook ginger in water and drink it can cure indigestion. Ginger is widely attributed to be warm stomach, stomach discomfort drink a bowl of ginger water is a common thing. Stomach of patients according to their own circumstances, and occasionally used, and no adverse reaction, not a bad idea. It should be recognized that ginger is spicy food, excessive consumption will stimulate gastric acid secretion, causing stomach discomfort or worse. If you want to use ginger to cure stomach ailments should be invited to TCM syndrome differentiation, a different prescription for better symptomatic treatment.

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