Stomach pain should not eat?

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The article was professionally consulted by Specialist Doctor I Dong Xuan Ha - Gastroenterologist - Department of Medical Examination and Internal Medicine - Vinmec Ha Long International Hospital.
Stomach pain is considered a common disease today, causing dull pain, along with indigestion, bloating, nausea, ... clinging to you every day, making you tired and exhausted. . One of the reasons why stomach pain develops is your daily diet. Lifestyle and diet directly affect the development of stomach pain.
Here we will help you learn what not to eat with stomach pain?

1. Causes of stomach pain

It can be said that stomach pain is one of the diseases that many Vietnamese suffer from. The main causes of stomach disease are:
Helicobacter pylori: 80% of people with this stomach ulcer disease are caused by the influence of HP bacteria. Among people infected with HP bacteria, 25% of people have been infected with HP but have not had stomach ulcers until people start bad habits such as smoking, drinking alcohol,... Creates a good growth environment for HP bacteria to grow. Excessive use of Western drugs: High-dose antibiotics will be able to completely destroy beneficial bacteria for the stomach. When using pain relievers also contribute to reducing the amount of protective mucus in the stomach. Stress: When we are often under prolonged stress, it will increase the contraction in the stomach, and at the same time stimulate the secretion of gastric acid, causing an imbalance in pH and will cause erosion. gastric mucosa. Tobacco, alcohol, stimulants contribute to damage to the stomach: Nicotine in cigarette smoke increases gastric acid secretion, and at the same time hinders the recovery of damage to the cell lining. The high alcohol concentration in alcohol also contributes to the destruction of the gastric mucosa, and reduces the absorption function of substances, and at the same time erodes the stomach,... Bad habits in daily life: When eating too full or too hungry, while eating while reading a book or watching TV, or eating too late, and using dirty food, ... will also cause the stomach to work excessively, which leads to the condition stomach ulcers .

2. Signs and symptoms of stomach pain

If you are suffering from one of the following symptoms, it is likely that you have a stomachache:
Loss of appetite, feeling bloated: due to an unstable digestive system. Heartburn, heartburn, burning in the epigastrium: caused by excess acid pushing back into the oral cavity. Nausea: caused by undigested food will be pushed out. Gastrointestinal bleeding: occurs when the stomach lining has been severely damaged. Epigastric pain and abdominal pain: dull pain, burning discomfort, ... in the epigastrium or upper left abdomen. Prolonged cough with no known cause. Disturbances of fecal excretion.

3. Stomach pain should not eat?

Do not use carbonated drinks or coffee, do not drink milk during treatment, instead choose herbal teas, filtered water. Do not eat hot spicy spices. Do not drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes. Should divide meals in a day: We should not eat too full, or should not be too hungry to eat. Because eating too much will make the stomach bloat, and produce many harmful acids, which are easy to cause pain. Do not use acidic foods. Fruits with a sour taste (eg: Orange, grapefruit, lemon, tamarind, ...), or salted eggplant, vinegar, batch or some mushrooms, concentrated fish sauce, chili spices, garlic,... In addition, we need to avoid foods containing the risk of damaging the protective mucosa, and causing the stomach to contract and crush a lot such as: Hard foods, or vegetables containing a lot of fiber, hard green fruits (toads, guava, mangoes, apples, ...), or meat with many tendons and cartilages,... Not to mention the foods mentioned above take a long time. Time to reach the stomach, acid will always be produced while the stomach is empty, inadvertently increasing the amount of acid in the stomach.
Limit eating foods that are processed, difficult to digest, and contain a lot of salt such as: sausages, sausages, or bacon, cold cuts, sausages,... Dairy products . You might be surprised to learn that at least 65% of the population is lactose intolerant. That means those people have a reduced ability to digest lactose (a type of sugar found in milk). And if you are lactose intolerant, dairy products can cause major digestive problems. Symptoms that will accompany include bloating, indigestion, or abdominal pain and diarrhea. Therefore, whenever you drink milk or eat dairy products and you have other symptoms, remember to stay away from dairy products. In particular, when you are hungry, you should not drink milk or eat dairy products, because it will cause more harm to the stomach.
Red meat When eating red meat into the body will make our body feel more difficult in the digestive process, because animal proteins will often have a high acid content. So when we want to digest these red meats, our body will have to increase the production of stomach acids. The above increase in acidity is of course not good for people with stomach ailments.
Spicy foods Spicy spices will increase the amount of acid in the stomach and will make gastritis worse. Moreover, spicy foods will also irritate the stomach, making the existing inflammation in the stomach become serious and cause ulcers. Therefore, if your stomach is already weak, you should avoid eating foods that are too spicy to better protect your stomach health.
Hope the above information will help people know more about what not to eat with stomach pain to have good health.

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