Hot pot with milk tea, causing systemic poisoning? Huaxi doctors remind you: You must go to the hospital in this case!

In Sichuan, there is nothing that a hotpot can’t solve. If you want to be happy, you must have hotpot. If you want to double your happiness, then milk tea + hotpot!

So who witnessed the first cup of milk tea and hot pot in autumn?

The answer may not be your boyfriend, it may be the emergency doctor...

As shown in the picture above, many people were admitted to the hospital because of milk tea and hot pot. The situation was so serious that a special news report was issued to warn people...

But many of you must be confused. How could milk tea and hotpot taste so good? Why did they suffer such serious consequences? What went wrong?

Diarrhea is not scary

The scary thing is that I can’t get through it!

I wonder if you have noticed that there are more and more people around you suffering from diarrhea?

There is a special term in medicine: autumn diarrhea. As the name suggests, it refers to diarrhea that occurs in autumn and winter.

It generally refers to a self-limiting disease in children caused by rotavirus; if a child has frequent diarrhea, he or she must see a doctor in time for early examination.

Adults can also get it, but the condition is much milder.

The "autumn diarrhea" of adults may not be caused by rotavirus, but by hot pot, milk tea, barbecue, beer, pickled food, and possibly other cruel things.

We all have experience with this kind of diarrhea. Just take some medicine and it will go away after a while.

But some people just can't get over diarrhea. In this case, we need to consider the possibility of severe acute gastroenteritis, which is an acute inflammation of the gastrointestinal mucosa. The main clinical manifestations are nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever, etc.

Generally speaking, "good" acute gastroenteritis, which is what everyone has experienced, will only cause mild diarrhea, which can be cured by taking medicine.

For more serious cases, the patient has to defecate at least dozens of times a day, and may even be unable to defecate. The patient may experience a large amount of watery stool, a small amount of mucus, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, and sometimes vomiting of coffee-like substance.

In more serious cases, hypokalemia may occur, with symptoms of abdominal distension and systemic poisoning;

More seriously, like the person in the news, an electrolyte imbalance occurred, leading to hypokalemic and hypocalcemic alkalosis, which is very dangerous and may be life-threatening!

Hotpot + milk tea

What causes alkalosis?

Hypokalemic and hypocalcemic alkalosis sounds like a person is lacking in potassium and calcium. If you are deficient, just replenish them. How can it kill people?

Let me put it this way, we humans are soaked in water, and our blood and tissue fluid are not pure water, but contain many things dissolved in them.

These include cations such as potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus, as well as anions such as chloride and carbonate.

Sounds very professional, right? Remember one thing⬇️

Water accounts for about 60% to 70% of our body weight (depending on age). These water and ions are involved in many important functions and metabolic activities in the body. Without them, we cannot carry out normal life activities, so they are very important!

So, when you eat hot pot (hot) and drink milk tea (cold) right after, it is easy to cause gastrointestinal dysfunction and then diarrhea...

If you have severe diarrhea (dehydration), the body's water and electrolytes will be abnormally excreted. This is an abnormal loss, which causes dysfunction in the neuro-endocrine system and organ regulation (especially the cardiovascular system), leading to water and electrolyte disorders.

If not treated promptly, it may lead to sudden death due to hypokalemia, convulsions due to hypocalcemia, coma, and eventually death.

In addition, the same goes for ice beer, ice cola, etc. It is best not to eat them like this!

What to do if you lack water or potassium

Can sports drinks be supplemented?

A lot of people, ha, what do you say! It's a bit taken for granted!

It is of course right to replenish what is lacking. Sports drinks do contain these elements, but the rate of loss in severe diarrhea is greater than the body's absorption rate, especially for lack of water and potassium, which cannot be replenished by drinking!

So how do you tell how dehydrated you are? Here are the details:

In addition, isotonic dehydration may also cause these serious conditions:

If any of the above conditions are serious, it will cause organ failure, including kidney failure, and even endanger life.

Having said so much, let me summarize it as follows:

Don’t underestimate diarrhea, it can be fatal in severe cases;

If you have diarrhea and faint, go to the hospital without hesitation!

Prevention is better than cure. If you don’t want to go to the hospital, you should keep warm, eat hygienic food, and avoid eating overly irritating foods.

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