Eating bamboo shoots harmful to the stomach?

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1. Uses of bamboo shoots for health

Bamboo shoots is an ingredient that creates delicious dishes, so it often appears on the dining table of Vietnamese families. There are many types of bamboo shoots such as: asparagus, bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots, ...
Bamboo shoots are listed as foods containing a lot of fiber, helping people avoid constipation. In addition, bamboo shoots are also good for health and can aid in the treatment or prevention of certain diseases. Other uses of bamboo shoots that are not well known include weight loss, cholesterol control, heart health, immune boosting, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, respiratory problems,...

2. Does eating bamboo shoots harm the stomach?

Thanks to the above uses, many Vietnamese families love bamboo shoots and use this ingredient in the menu every day. However, there are cases where after eating bamboo shoots appear bad symptoms that make health decline. Since then, many people have begun to question whether stomach pain can eat fresh bamboo shoots? Or eat bamboo shoots harmful to the stomach? Some recent medical studies show that eating bamboo shoots has the risk of adversely affecting our stomach, especially patients who are experiencing stomach pain.
Stomach pain is a disease that often turns chronic, or recurs many times, making many patients discouraged from treatment. Patients with stomach pain must be very careful in choosing their daily meals. The abstinence from eating and drinking must still be done even though the patient's stomach has recovered to limit recurrence. Bamboo shoots is one of the dishes to avoid for people with stomach pain because bamboo shoots contain a lot of cyanhydric acid (about 230mg in a kilogram of bamboo shoots). This is considered a harmful substance to the stomach, so people with stomach pain should not eat bamboo shoots.
There was once a case of a 6-year-old child hospitalized with fatigue, abdominal discomfort and distension, and pale body. After conducting an X-ray, the doctors diagnosed the baby with mechanical intestinal obstruction due to food residue in the intestine. According to information from the family, the baby has a hobby of eating fried bamboo shoots, so in the bamboo shoot season, his mother often cooks this dish for him. Along with that, the baby also ate more pickled persimmons and figs, so the disease progressed worse. The treating doctor said that if this bowel obstruction is not detected and operated early, it is easy to lead to body toxicity, infection, necrosis of the intestine, multi-organ failure, and even death.
Around the issue of stomach pain, should you eat bamboo shoots, medical experts also advise parents not to let their children eat too many foods containing a lot of fibrous resin such as figs, pickled persimmons or fresh bamboo shoots. In particular, these foods should not be eaten when hungry, because at this time, the food easily clumps together to form a mass of residue, leading to intestinal obstruction.

3. Notes when eating bamboo shoots

Doctors add that eating bamboo shoots is toxic and dangerous or not depends on how people process and use them. To avoid the risk of eating bamboo shoots with stomach upset, you need to avoid the following bad habits:
Boil bamboo shoots briefly: In bamboo shoots there are many toxins cyanide, when entering the body, the enzymes of the digestive tract will interact and transform into cyanhydric acid (HCN), which has adverse effects on the body. Therefore, when cooking bamboo shoots, we have to boil them thoroughly and wash them again and again many times with water. Do not eat fresh bamboo shoots regularly: According to many studies, bamboo shoots contain less lipid, sugar, fat but high fiber. Therefore, eating too much bamboo shoots will cause excess fiber in the body, causing stagnation and biological intestinal obstruction. Bamboo shoots soaked in vinegar, eating squishy: Many Vietnamese families have a habit of soaking bamboo shoots with vinegar and eating them. However, because the cyanide in bamboo shoots can be harmful to health, soaking the bamboo shoots needs enough time for the bamboo shoots to turn yellow and have a sour smell. If the bamboo shoots are soaked in vinegar, but they are not yellow and have a sour taste, then there is still a risk of toxicity to the human body. Bamboo shoots are really a dish with a lot of nutritional value for the body. However, in order to eat bamboo shoots to bring good results, we need to prepare them carefully and eat them properly. At the same time, people with chronic stomach pain should not shoot bamboo shoots to avoid the bad effects that bamboo shoots can cause.
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