What if I get diarrhea after eating hotpot? Teach you how to eat hot pot correctly!

When many people are with friends, eating hot pot is often a good choice. Although hot pot is delicious, what should you do if you get diarrhea after eating hot pot? What is the reason for diarrhea after eating hot pot? How to eat hot pot correctly?

1. What causes diarrhea after eating hot pot?

1. The food provided by the hot pot restaurant has quality problems

Nowadays, there are many hot pot restaurants on the market, big and small, famous and unknown, often of varying quality, with unhygienic environments. Some ingredients may have passed their expiration date or gone bad, and eating them will of course cause gastrointestinal discomfort and diarrhea.

2. Not cooking the food thoroughly when having hot pot

Since hotpot is usually served buffet style, if you have no idea whether the food is cooked, and you eat raw or half-cooked food, these foods may contain bacteria and cause diarrhea.

3. Alcohol stimulation

Alcohol can also irritate the stomach and intestines. When eating hot pot, if you drink a lot of iced alcohol and beverages, the probability of diarrhea will be very high.

4. Spicy taste

The base of hot pot is usually very spicy, and spicy food can irritate the stomach and intestines and cause diarrhea. If your gastrointestinal function is weak, you are not suitable for eating hot pot, especially the kind that is super spicy or abnormally spicy. If you want to eat it, try to choose a shuangxiang hotpot and eat the food cooked in clear soup.

2. How to eat hot pot correctly

1. How many times a week is it appropriate to eat hot pot?

It is enough to eat it once a week or two. Eating too much can easily cause getting a sore throat. At the same time, you should also pay attention to eating more green vegetables. Hot pot ingredients such as fish dumplings, shrimp dumplings, and various meatballs contain a lot of fat, so patients with diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia should pay attention; hot pot soup contains a lot of purine, so gout patients should not drink it; hot pot soup also contains a lot of sodium ions and potassium ions, so people with kidney disease and hypertension should be careful.

2. Master the heat

When eating hot pot, if the food is cooked in the hot pot for too long, it will lose its flavor and destroy its nutrients; if it is not cooked enough, it will easily cause digestive tract diseases.

3. Don’t take too long to eat

Some people eat for hours or even all night long. This will cause the gastric juice, bile, pancreatic juice and other digestive juices to be continuously secreted, and the glands cannot get a normal rest, leading to gastrointestinal dysfunction and abdominal pain, diarrhea, and in severe cases, chronic gastroenteritis, pancreatitis, etc.

4. Don’t eat food that is too hot

Food that is too hot can easily burn the oral and esophageal mucosa, and it is more likely to cause disease if it is mixed with tobacco, alcohol or unclean food. When eating hot pot, you should take out the cooked food and let it cool slightly before eating. If you can pair it with frozen fresh milk, you can prevent scalding.

5. Don’t make it too spicy or too numbing

Food that is too spicy or too numbing will not only irritate the mucous membranes of the mouth, esophagus and gastrointestinal tract, causing congestion and edema, but can also easily induce more serious diseases. People with stomatitis, chronic pharyngitis, ulcer disease, chronic pancreatitis, recurring cholecystitis and those who have undergone upper abdominal surgery should not eat hot pot.

6. Add more vegetables when eating hot pot

Hot pot ingredients include a lot of meat, fish, animal offal and other foods, especially lamb, which is warm in nature and eating too much can easily cause getting a sore throat.

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the dietary therapy of "cooling down heat", so it is best to pair hot pot with some cool and sweet vegetables. Vegetables contain a lot of vitamins and chlorophyll, and are mostly cold in nature. They can not only eliminate greasiness and replenish the body's vitamin deficiency in autumn and winter, but also have the effects of cooling, detoxifying and removing heat. However, the vegetables should not be cooked for a long time, so that they can have the heat-removing effect.

Cool vegetables generally include winter melon, loofah, rapeseed, spinach, cabbage, enoki mushrooms, mushrooms, lotus root, wild rice stem, bamboo shoots, and Chinese cabbage; while sweet potatoes, potatoes, and shiitake mushrooms are sweet and neutral vegetables.

Stem and leaf vegetables such as rapeseed, Chinese cabbage, spinach, etc. are generally rich in vitamin C and carotene. It is best to boil them for a short time, otherwise the nutrients will be destroyed.

Spinach contains oxalic acid, which will hinder the absorption of calcium and iron in food. It is best not to blanch it with other foods for a long time. Just blanch it briefly. Root vegetables such as radish, carrot, taro, potato, etc. are rich in crude fiber and have less nutritional loss, so they can be boiled for a longer time.

7. Don’t be hot and cold

Many people like to eat hot pot and drink ice beer at the same time. The alternation between hot and cold can easily cause indigestion, diarrhea and constipation. Especially for people who already have chronic stomach problems, it is more likely to induce acute attacks of chronic diseases. There is a correct way to eat hot pot. Many people like spicy hot pot bases and ingredients, but they don’t know that eating too much spicy food will continue to increase irritation to the throat and gastrointestinal tract, easily leading to sore throat, gastric ulcers, gastritis, diarrhea and other digestive tract diseases. At the same time, winters in the north are relatively dry. Spicy food will cause the body to consume a lot of water, which is not conducive to health and can easily lead to winter skin itching.