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Mid-Autumn Festival just passed
National Day is coming soon
Probably everyone is tempted by all kinds of food
People are “half a month” again
Look down and touch your chubby belly
Can’t help turning grief and anger into appetite
Or start weight loss again
Inappropriate weight loss can be harmful
Everyone’s ears have long heard calluses
In the Emergency Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine
I received such a very beautiful lady
Because of homemade “diet juice”
Nearly life-threatening
What is this all about?
Drinking homemade ‘diet juice’, she was bloated and had difficulty breathing
On the evening of September 19, a young lady Jiajia (pseudonym) was sent to the emergency department of the First Hospital of Zhejiang University. She was pale, swollen, had difficulty breathing, cyanotic lips, and fingernails. bluish.
“Doctor, my throat is tight… I feel like I’m being strangled, I can’t breathe!” Chief Physician Lu Yuanqiang, director of the emergency department, led the team to see Jiajia, her blood oxygen saturation The temperature has dropped to 80% (the normal value should be above 95%) and is in a state of severe hypoxia. After a series of tests, Jiajia was diagnosed with “nitrite poisoning”, and the culprit of all this was actually a glass of homemade “diet juice”.
The 30-year-old Hangzhou native Jiajia has fair skin and beautiful skin. She is 1.65 meters tall and her weight has remained at 108 catties all year round. She works in a financial company. Because of the proper maintenance, she looks only in her twenties, and she is also dubbed by her colleagues as “the front man”.
Just past Mid-Autumn Festival, there were many family dinners in a row, and the moon cakes distributed by the unit had to be “annihilated”. Looking at the scale, she has gained almost 3 pounds in less than a week, and she can’t help but be anxious. According to the article shared by my best friend, “Two ingredients are made into juice, drink a cup a day, reduce fat and scrape oil to drink a small waist”, Jiajia will prepare the prepared celery and cucumber, and follow the tutorial to make mixed vegetable juice. Come.
Drinking a big glass, I felt very enjoyable. Jiajia, who served vegetable juice as dinner, also posted a picture in WeChat Moments with the text “Homemade Vegetable Weight Loss Juice, Brushing Fat to Remove Greasy”. Beginner’s journey, she prepared a lot of raw materials, 1L of vegetable juice could not be finished at one time, she put more than half of the remaining in the refrigerator for storage.
Because of her busy work schedule, Jia Jia quickly forgot about the homemade “vegetable juice for weight loss” in the refrigerator. Three days later, when she opened the refrigerator to prepare dinner, she only thought of this matter.
In order not to waste, she drank the remaining vegetable juice in one go that day. In order to achieve better weight loss effect, she also took a certain brand of dietary fiber that she ate every day during this period. Vegetarian meal replacement powder. As a result, not long after drinking the “diet juice”, there was a scene of poisoning at the beginning.
Nitrite poisoning, often seen in the emergency department in the past
After oxygen inhalation, gastric lavage, catharsis and detoxification treatment, Jiajia turned the corner, her symptoms improved significantly, and she was finally discharged safely.
The First Hospital of Zhejiang University is the Zhejiang Provincial Poisoning Emergency Prevention and Control Center and the Zhejiang Provincial Poisoning Treatment Base. The Emergency Department of the First Hospital of Zhejiang University has rich professional experience in the treatment of various types of poisoning. Lu Yuanqiang, director of the emergency department, introduced that patients who had nitrite poisoning such as leftovers and unsalted pickles were often seen in the past. In recent years, with the popularization of various media, the number of patients with nitrite poisoning has been significantly reduced, but it still occurs sporadically.
So how can vegetable juice for weight loss cause nitrite poisoning?
Director Lu further explained that the original sin was not “vegetables” but “long-term storage”. Daily vegetables such as lettuce, celery, toon and other vegetables contain a certain amount of nitrate. If they are placed for too long after being squeezed into juice, they will be converted into nitrite under the action of bacteria. Especially after overnight, not only the vitamins in the vegetable juice will be degraded and oxidized quickly, and the nutrients will be greatly reduced, but the food itself may have deteriorated after standing in the refrigerator for 3 days, and it will cause poisoning hazards. He emphasized: “Vegetable juice and fruit juice must be freshly squeezed and drunk!”
Experts introduce that nitrite is a highly toxic substance, and the incubation period for poisoning is only 1 to 3 hours. Adults ingest 0.2 to 0.5 grams can cause poisoning, 3 grams can be fatal. Nitrite poisoning mainly refers to the poisoning caused by eating cured meat products, pickles or spoiled vegetables with high nitrate or nitrite content, or some people mistakenly eat industrial sodium nitrite as table salt caused by.
“Nitrite can oxidize methemoglobin, which normally carries oxygen in the blood, to methemoglobin, losing its ability to carry oxygen, leading to tissue hypoxia. It can also dilate blood vessels and lower blood pressure, causing Acute poisoning of the human body.” Director Lu emphasized that the main feature of nitrite poisoning is cyanosis caused by tissue hypoxia, and bruising of lips, tongue and nails. In severe cases, even the skin of the conjunctiva, face and even the whole body will be blue-purple. Patients will have headache, dizziness, fatigue, rapid heartbeat, drowsiness, irritability, difficulty breathing, and even nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms. Severe poisoning will cause coma, convulsions, incontinence, and multiple organs will fail due to severe hypoxia, resulting in death.
In addition to acute poisoning, nitrite can be converted into nitrosamine, which has strong carcinogenic effect. Long-term consumption of nitrite-containing food can cause esophageal cancer , gastric cancer, liver cancer and colorectal cancer. Nitrite can enter the fetus through the placenta, and the fetus within six months is particularly sensitive to nitrite, which has teratogenic effects on the fetus.
Prevention of nitrite poisoning, experts have something to say
So, in daily life, how to prevent nitrite poisoning?
Expert Recommendation:
1. Homemade fruit and vegetable juice is safe to drink immediately after being squeezed, and definitely not overnight;
Second, Buy and eat anytime, do not store vegetables at room temperature for a long time, especially in high temperature seasons, fasting rotten and spoiled vegetables;
Third, Eat as little or no leftovers overnight as possible, especially seafood, green leafy vegetables, salads, etc.;
4. Eat less pickled foods in daily life, including but not limited to sausage, ham, smoked pork, salted fish, salted eggs, pickles, pickles, etc. ;
V. If you make homemade kimchi and pickled vegetables, you should also pay special attention to the marinating time, temperature and the amount of salt. If the marinating time is too short, it is easy to cause a large number of bacteria to multiply. The content of nitrite increases significantly (the peak will be reached in 5-8 days), it is advisable to eat it after being cured for half a month and until it is fully cured; eat occasionally, and eat a small amount each time;
Six. It is strictly forbidden to mix nitrite with table salt to prevent unnecessary ingestion and misuse caused by confusion.
