Previously, a netizen posted a facial contrast picture of eating betel nut for a long time on microblog. Chewing betel nut for a long time may make people ugly, which makes people begin to care about the harm of eating betel nut. Now let's talk about betel nut.
Is betel nut addictive
Long term betel nut addiction
Quitting betel nut is the same as quitting smoking and detoxifying alcohol. Both need tenacious willpower and determination to quit it. This is the key to quitting addiction. To quit betel nut, we can choose the substitution method and the gradual reduction method at the same time. After the betel nut addiction comes up, we can eat a piece of gum instead, or we can only eat one third of betel nut, one for three times, so as to gradually reduce the drug addiction and finally give up. Another key condition to abstain from betel nut is that the surrounding compatriots should abstain together, otherwise it is difficult for one person to stick to it.
Harm of eating betel nut
1. Chewing betel nut can cause periodontitis, Oral Submucosal Fibrosis and oral leukoplakia, as well as oral cancer. Moreover, excessive consumption of betel nut can produce toxic symptoms, ranging from excitement, dull eyes, shaking, unstable walking, strange or rough behavior to acute mental illness, including auditory hallucination, self expansion, forced delusion, delirium and so on.
2. Chewing betel nut is closely related to oral cancer. The research results of domestic medical institutions in recent years show that about 88% of oral cancer patients have the habit of chewing betel nut. If chewing betel nut combined with smoking, it is more likely to cause oral cancer, laryngeal cancer, pharyngeal cancer and esophageal cancer, and chewing betel nut, smoking combined with drinking, it is more carcinogenic.
3. Betel nut induced precancerous lesions, Oral Submucosal Fibrosis: common in buccal mucosa, followed by jaw. Oral mucosa will have burning sensation, ulcer, whitening, gradual loss of elasticity, and finally cause mouth opening and dysphagia. Some of the patients with oral submucosal fibrosis will turn into oral cancer.
How to eat betel nut
1. Dry the ripe fruit in the sun for 1-2 days, then put it in the oven and slowly dry it with dry firewood. Take it out for about 7-10 days and wait for it to cool. Smash the fruit and take the jadeite, and then dry it for 1-2 days. Generally, 100 kg fresh fruit can be processed into 17-19 kg Langyu.
2. Cut the betel nut into petals, cover it with cotyledons, add lime cream and cut tobacco, and chew it in your mouth. The people who eat it will look red and energetic after drinking wine.
3. The most commonly eaten betel nut should be the packaged snack betel nut on the market. It's fast and convenient. You can eat it when you open it. But pay attention, when you buy packaged betel nut, you should first look at the production date on the package, and don't eat it near the shelf life, because the expired betel nut has lost its taste and tastes like chewing wax. Before eating betel nut, dig out the black bittern in the betel nut, so that there will be no smell and the taste will be better.