Does eating spicy food harm your stomach?

The deliciousness of chili can enhance people's appetite and promote digestion. "Can't live without spicy food" has become a synonym for people who love spicy food. Chili peppers add color and flavor to food, but you can’t sacrifice your health for the sake of “flavor”. Eating spicy food has its advantages and disadvantages. Eating spicy food for a long time or eating too spicy food will cause certain damage to our gastrointestinal tract. So let’s take a look at the damage.

Too much pepper, chili and spicy seasoning added to spicy food. This will damage the gastrointestinal mucosa, making it susceptible to gastroenteritis and gastrointestinal ulcers, and affecting gastrointestinal function.

Eating hot and spicy food frequently is harmful to the oral cavity, and oral leukoplakia is one of them. Some people are born to be able to eat spicy food without being affected physically, while others cannot tolerate it even if they don’t eat much. A small amount is beneficial, it can stimulate stomach movement and keep you warm in winter. Too much can cause damage to the gastrointestinal tract.

People with poor gastrointestinal function. Although eating chili peppers can increase appetite, people with poor gastrointestinal function should avoid eating chili peppers as it will cause inflammation of the gastrointestinal mucosa.

Excessive consumption is harmful to human health. Too much capsaicin will severely irritate the gastrointestinal mucosa, causing it to become highly congested and motility to accelerate, causing stomach pain, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and burning and stinging pain in the anus, inducing gastrointestinal diseases, and promoting hemorrhoidal bleeding. Excessive consumption is harmful to human health. Eating too much will cause heat and excessive sweating at any time, leading to water loss, sore throat, nausea, swollen and painful gums, etc., which will have the opposite effect.

Do not eat too much chili for a long time. Long-term and large-scale consumption of chili peppers will cause symptoms of poisoning, such as burning sensation in the stomach, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and even vomiting blood, hematuria, nosebleed, and increased or decreased blood pressure.

Eating chili peppers for a long time will stimulate your nerves for a long time, reduce your sensitivity, and reduce your stomach function, which will shorten your life. Since chili peppers are very spicy and hot in nature, people with hot and fiery diseases such as conjunctivitis, toothache, sore throat, hemoptysis, boils, or hypertension and tuberculosis caused by yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire should also eat them with caution.