It's a good time to eat oranges. Sweet and sour oranges are the favorite of many people. However, people may suffer from orange disease if they don't pay attention to them. Recently, many people are suffering from orange disease because they eat too many oranges carelessly. As a result, people eat more and more oranges. They suffer from orange disease and become little yellow people. Follow Xiaobian to see what's going on?
Orange is rich in carotene, which can't be completely decomposed by the liver after one time of excessive intake. The concentration of carotene in the blood is too high, and it will deposit in the cuticle and mucous membrane of the skin, resulting in yellow skin. Gu Zhongyi, a nutritionist at Beijing Friendship Hospital, reminded that eating too many carrots, pumpkins and papayas can also cause 'carotenemia', but the color can fade gradually in a week or two, which has no effect on health.
Doctor reminded
Eat oranges no more than a Jin a day
Eat other fruits of the season
Ji Hezi, deputy director of dermatology at the Municipal People's Hospital, said that orange yellow disease is caused by the body's failure to convert carotene into vitamin A in time after excessive consumption of food rich in carotene, which leads to excessive carotene entering the blood. Because carotene is yellow, the skin of the patient turns yellow. She said that the disease is not a serious disease, but it is caused by different physical conditions. Many people are unable to metabolize a large number of carotenes due to their own metabolic problems. According to reports, the disease will generally cause palms to turn yellow first, sometimes feet, face, around the mouth, eyelids to turn yellow, and in serious cases, the skin will turn yellow all over the body. Ji Hezi said that there is no special high-risk population for the disease. The high-risk period of the disease is generally the time when oranges are listed. From November to February of the next year, they will receive many such patients every year.
Recently, it's orange season. Many people can't stop eating too many oranges, which may lead to orange yellow. She reminded that not only oranges, oranges, Ou oranges and other citrus are rich in carotene, carrots and persimmons are also rich in carotene, and eating too much can easily lead to skin yellowing. She suggested that citizens can eat 2-3 oranges a day, not more than a jin at most, not only one kind of fruit, but also other fruits of the current season.
In addition, she also reminded that people with orange disease should not worry too much, as long as they stop eating oranges and other foods rich in carotene, drink more water and speed up body metabolism, they can generally reduce or recover.