Sihaiwang: summer is coming, and it's time to eat lychees. Lychees are sweet and juicy, and they are loved by people, especially children. But recently, a news burst out that the news of the death of 10 children who ate litchi on an empty stomach suddenly spread all over the circle of friends, making many citizens, especially parents, forward it one after another. It's terrible to call directly.
Recently, a 7-year-old boy in Guangzhou suffered from a coma after eating too many litchi on an empty stomach. He was diagnosed as "litchi disease". Finally, he was rescued in time and escaped from the danger. As a doctor, the article said: the child is lucky to be able to 'escape from death', but there have been many unfortunate things that need to be alerted by parents.
According to the article, 71 cases of "litchi disease" were treated in hospitals in China, aged from 2 to 10 years old, of which 61 cases were successfully rescued. In the 10 cases of death, the main reason is that the patients failed to supplement the concentrated sugar in time in the early stage of the disease, or failed to see a doctor in time for more than 10 hours of repeated convulsions. Although actively rescued, they still failed to save lives.
So what is litchi disease? What are the taboos of litchi? Why can't we eat litchi on an empty stomach? Let's learn about litchi!
What are the functions of litchi?
1. Enhance body immunity
Litchi is rich in vitamin C and protein, which has a good effect on strengthening the body and improving the body immunity.
2. Lowering blood sugar
Although the taste of litchi is sweet, it contains a substance that can reduce blood sugar.
3, detoxification
Litchi is rich in nutrients, which has a certain effect on anti-aging, but also has a certain effect on anti-tumor and detoxification.
4, brain strengthening
Litchi is rich in glucose and sucrose, which can supplement energy and increase nutrition. As the most important part of the body, the brain needs a lot of high sugar content substances to ensure its nutrition, so litchi has a good nourishing effect on the brain.
What are the taboos of litchi? Why can't you eat litchi on an empty stomach?
What is litchi disease?
Eating a lot of Litchi on an empty stomach leads to hypoglycemia
What is litchi disease? Li Xinyi, clinical nutritionist of Nutrition Department of West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University, told Chengdu business daily client reporter:
Lychee disease
It is because a large amount of litchi is eaten on an empty stomach, and fructose is converted into a large amount of glucose, which stimulates the islet β cells to secrete a large amount of insulin, thus transmitting the wrong signal to the liver, causing 'hypoglycemia', rather than the presence of toxic substances in Litchi.
It turns out that litchi contains not only 80% water, but also a lot of fructose, protein, pectin and other substances. The maintenance of blood glucose level in the human body mainly depends on glucose. After daily eating, fructose will become glucose under the action of various enzymes in the human body. On an empty stomach, people's blood sugar is at a low level. At this time, they eat litchi in large quantities. In a short period of time, fructose is converted into a large amount of glucose, which stimulates the islet beta; cells to secrete a large amount of insulin, thus transmitting the wrong signal to the liver, leading to hypoglycemia symptoms, such as heart attack, fatigue, even high fever, convulsion, coma, etc. In fact, adults may also have "litchi disease", but the blood sugar balance ability of adults is better. The balance ability of the elderly and children is poor. In addition, the disease of children develops rapidly, so the symptoms appear faster.
How to prevent litchi disease?
It is also very simple to prevent litchi disease. First, don't eat litchi on an empty stomach or when you are hungry. Second, don't eat too much Litchi at a time. In fact, it's not only litchi, but also everything. Especially for children, if there is no adult around to look after them, it is easy to overeat, which leads to tragedy, so it is better for children to eat litchi in the vision of adults. Finally, I hope that you will not only eat happily, but also eat healthily.