What should the elderly pay attention to when eating hot pot in winter?

　　elderly What should you pay attention to when eating hot pot?

　　Every winter, many elderly patients with gastric bleeding after eating hot pot go to the doctor. This is because the elderly have poor gastrointestinal function, especially eating too much mutton, which makes it difficult for the stomach to digest and easily leads to gastric bleeding. Experts remind people that people tend to overeat when they eat hot pot. Elderly people should pay more attention to eating only 8 minutes until they are full. If they accidentally eat too much, they can take some Bohe Pills to eliminate the food.

　　In addition, the hot pot seasonings for the elderly should be lighter. It is best to use sesame paste and eat less fermented bean curd. Don't be impatient when eating hot pot. The food you take out of the hot pot should be small and wait until it cools down before eating it. You should be careful not to eat too hot.

　　Eating too much hot pot can easily lead to internal heat, so you only need to eat it once a week. The best staple food to go with hot pot is yeast bread, which is easy to digest. When eating hot pot, pay attention to drink more plain water or tea. This will not destroy the pH balance of the digestive tract; secondly, it can replenish the water needed by the human body; thirdly, it will not stimulate the digestive tract and cause adverse reactions. However, you should drink green tea in moderation when eating hotpot mutton, otherwise some people may constipate。

　　In addition, the elderly must pay attention to maintaining ventilation in the house when eating hot pot. In winter, the doors and windows are closed, and the steaming hot pot may cause hypoxia in the elderly.

　　The elderly are only suitable to eat hot pot with less oil and less spicy, such as porridge-based hot pot and fungus hot pot.

　　If you eat it with hot pot, you won’t get angry.

　　Put more vegetables

　　Hot pot ingredients include not only meat, fish and animal offal, but also more vegetables. Vegetables contain a large amount of vitamins and chlorophyll, and are often cold in nature. They can not only eliminate greasiness and supplement the body's vitamin deficiency in winter, but also have cooling, detoxifying and fire-removing effects. However, the vegetables should not be cooked for a long time to have the fire-fighting effect.

　　Put some tofu in moderation

　　Tofu is a soy product containing gypsum. Adding tofu appropriately in a hot pot can not only supplement the intake of various trace elements, but also play the role of gypsum in clearing away heat, purging fire, relieving annoyance, and quenching thirst.

　　Add some white lotus

　　White lotus is not only rich in various nutrients, but also a good medicine for replenishing the human body. White lotus is appropriately added to the hot pot. This combination of meat and vegetables helps to balance nutrition and is beneficial. healthy , it is best not to remove the lotus seed heart when adding white lotus, because the lotus seed heart has the effect of clearing the heart and purging fire.

　　You can put some ginger

　　Ginger can be used for seasoning and cold resistance. You can put some unpeeled ginger in the hot pot because the ginger skin is pungent and cool and has the effect of dissipating fire and removing heat.

　　Have a cup of tea after eating hot pot

　　This not only relieves greasiness and clears the mouth, but also clears fire. However, it is not advisable to drink tea immediately after eating hot pot with big fish and meat, in case the tannic acid in the tea combines with protein, affecting the absorption of nutrients and causing constipation.

　　eat some fruit

　　Generally speaking, you can eat some fruit thirty or forty minutes after eating hot pot. Fruit is cool in nature and has a good fire-reducing effect. As long as you eat one or two fruits after a meal, you can prevent "heat".