Tip: fasting eat persimmons careful gastric calculus

Wang bin, Peking University third hospital

The 2015-12-17

Source: health

Persimmon soft taste sweet, especially in old people all like to eat a lot of people, even to eat two or three at a time. In persimmon now a large number of listed season, digestive department of hospital outpatient service receives many because eating persimmon abdominal pain, abdominal distention, and even the digestive tract hemorrhage patients. The culprit is gastric calculus to these questions.

Persimmon, hawthorn, black will lead to gastric calculus

After eating certain foods, will form a crumb of stones in the stomach, this is stone of the stomach. Little stomach stones like smooth pigeon eggs, with their own droppings. Larger stones through the stomach into the intestines, sometimes blocking intestinal tract, intestinal obstruction. And big stomach calculi can more than 10 cm, stranded in the stomach, time grew to become very hard, will wear, oppression stomach mucosa, leading to gastric ulcer, gastric hemorrhage, and even gastric perforation. Easy to cause gastric calculus of food in addition to the persimmon, and hawthorn, black. The common characteristics of these foods are rich in tannins and pectin.

On an empty stomach, the stomach acid is more, eat persimmon content in the food, such as tannic acid, pectic formed under the action of gastric acid, mass, after eating the food fiber and so on continues to set on the briquette, calculi caused more and more big, more and more hard, eventually developed symptoms. In addition, persimmon, etc, such as fish, shrimp, crab and with high protein food to eat at the same time are more likely to lead to the formation of bezoar.

Many people are eaten persimmon within a few hours to 1 week after symptoms such as abdominal pain; Others are chronic process, patients with the course of more than 6 months. If recent eaten persimmon, especially on an empty stomach eaten persimmon, black, born hawthorn, appear abdominal pain, abdominal distention, nausea, black stool symptom such as vomiting coffee sample material, even need to go to hospital in time.

Don't eat persimmon on an empty stomach

Don't want to give up both sweet persimmon, and I don't want to gastric calculus, when to eat need to pay attention to some things. Don't eat persimmon, on an empty stomach after the meal to eat as much as possible. Hydrochloric acid in gastric juice is food in the stomach and after meal, weakened the function of tannic acid, pectic, not easy to stone formation. Eat less astringent persimmon and most, because the high tannin content, pay attention not to eat too much at a time. Avoid high protein food such as shrimp, crab, fish to eat at the same time. Avoid with acidic fruit such as orange, kiwi, etc.

Gastric calculi had a way of treatment

Forming time is short, the relatively small size of the stomach can by taking 5% sodium bicarbonate, proton pump inhibitors such as omeprazole and protection of gastric mucosa drugs for treatment. Large volume of gastric calculi, especially form a long time, need to be under gastroscope gravel, then continue to take drugs. Part of the hard brittle chronic and led to the obstruction of the stones, may need surgery.