What is the basis for experts to suggest that adults eat no more than ten lychees a day? What's the right way to eat litchi?

It's summer

Recently, many seasonal fruits have been on the market

Litchi, mango, watermelon, plum

The eaters should not be too happy

Recently, it is the season for litchi to go on the market in large quantities. This year, litchi will go on the market in large quantities and the price is low. Excessive consumption of litchi is easy to get litchi disease.

Doctors said that litchi has high sugar content, excessive consumption is easy to cause oral inflammation, the human body will also secrete a lot of insulin, causing hypoglycemia. Doctors suggest that adults should take no more than 10 lychees a day, and children should take no more than 5-6. Oral ulcer, constipation, blood sugar problems are not recommended.

Recently, a woman in Guangdong was admitted to the hospital for eating litchi.

Eat lots of lychees at one go

Female dizziness, nausea, emergency medical treatment

Recently, Ms. Huang (a pseudonym) from Huizhou, Guangdong Province, bought a kilo of litchi to eat at home. However, not long after eating the litchi, she developed dizziness, nausea and fatigue. Then, Ms. Huang rushed to the hospital. After the doctor's diagnosis, Ms. Huang was satisfied β- Hydroxybutyric acid is more than 2000 umol / L, while the range of normal people is 20-200 umol / L β- When hydroxybutyric acid is higher than 600umol/L, it is severe diabetic ketosis.

Ms Huang is diagnosed as diabetic ketosis. The arch criminal is the one who has diagnosed diabetes ketosis. According to the doctor, patients usually belong to the poor blood glucose control group. If they eat too many lychees at one time, they will have fructose intolerance and glucose metabolism disorder. After a week of hospitalization, Ms. Huang's indexes returned to normal.

It's time for litchi to go on the market.

Litchi is sweet and sour, warm in nature, and enters the heart, spleen and liver meridians; It can stop hiccup and diarrhea. It is a good food therapy for patients with intractable hiccup and diarrhea at Wugeng. It also has the functions of tonifying brain and body, appetizing spleen and promoting appetite.

However, recently, the news about litchi eating bad health is endless.

What is "litchi disease"?

Experts from Hangzhou Municipal Health Commission explained that the main clinical features of litchi disease are hypoglycemia. The symptoms include pale complexion, dizziness, palpitation, hunger, sweating and fatigue.

Litchi contains a lot of fructose, fructose into the body into glucose takes a period of time, and insulin has already begun to consume blood glucose. And eating too much litchi increases the sense of satiety, affects other food intake, resulting in hypoglycemia. If in a short period of time after eating a lot of litchi, dizziness, fatigue, sweating and other mild symptoms, can take glucose water or sugar water, to correct hypoglycemia, and to the hospital.

Fasting is not recommended

Litchi contains two kinds of hypoglycemic substances, in the fasting state, the body's blood sugar is not high, at this time eat litchi easy to cause hypoglycemia. It is recommended to eat half an hour after meals, or with some bread and biscuits when eating litchi. People with hypoglycemia are not recommended to eat litchi.

Daily consumption should not be excessive

"Eating 300 lychees a day" is a literary saying. After a large number of consumption, the oral cavity is in a state of hypertonic, which is easy to dry mouth, leading to throat pain, gingival bleeding and other symptoms, and easy to affect blood sugar《 According to the dietary guidelines for Chinese residents, adults should eat 200-400 grams of fruits a day, adults should not eat more than 300 grams of lychees a day (about 12), and children should control within 5. If there are other fruit intake every day, the amount of practical litchi can be reduced a little bit.

Don't eat immature litchi

The content of hypoglycemic substances in immature litchi is higher, so the ripe litchi should be selected.

Some people say that eating litchi will be found drunk driving, is this true?

Experts said that litchi is high in sugar, which will produce anaerobic chemical reaction in packaging and transportation, leading to the production of alcohol. After eating litchi, enzymes in oral bacteria can also stimulate the production of alcohol.

But "drink driving caused by eating litchi" is essentially different from "real drink driving". Drinking water after eating litchi can avoid such problems.

In addition, the animal with weakness, stomach cold and hernia pain should eat litchi, but those who suffer from excessive fever, throat pain and diabetes are not suitable to eat. Litchi should not be eaten with carrot, cucumber and animal liver.

What is the right way to eat litchi?

So how should litchi be eaten? Four points should be noted:

1. Eat fully mature litchi;

2. "Appropriate amount" is fundamental;

3. Refuse to eat on an empty stomach;

4, people with diabetes, gout, digestive diseases and other special problems should eat less.