Be careful when eating seafood hotpot on cold days

Seafood hotpot is a favorite dish, easy to eat, does not cause weight gain... and is the number 1 choice on cold days, but if you are not careful, you can easily get a stomachache or even food poisoning.

On cold days, with parties with friends and family, seafood hotpot is delicious, light, easy to digest, not fattening, and very nutritious, always at the top of the list of choices. According to culinary experts, this dish tastes better the colder it is.

However, there are still certain risks and taboos. Some people should not eat hot pot and seafood such as:

- Pregnant women eating hot pot can easily damage their stomach and intestines. Eating undercooked dishes can lead to parasitic diseases such as flukes...

- People with gout, diabetes, and high blood pressure should not eat mushrooms and seafood because they are rich in nutrients, but high in purine and cholesterol, which can cause the disease to flare up.

- People with stomach pain or poor digestion should not eat hot pot that is too spicy because it can damage the digestive system, irritate the stomach and cause pain... Hot pot must always be eaten after being dipped hot, combined with spicy spices, which can easily lead to inflammation, ulcers, clinical abdominal pain, acute pancreatitis, even stomach bleeding, stomach perforation...

- People with weak spleen and stomach, poor appetite, slow digestion, and loose stools should not eat clams (because clams are salty and cold).

- On the contrary, people with yin deficiency (thin, often dizzy, night sweats, hot palms and soles, dry mouth and throat, etc.) eat very well.

- People with leprosy, acute or chronic skin diseases, and weak spleen and stomach should not eat oysters and jellyfish, but they are very good for people with asthma, constipation, arthritis, and gastrointestinal ulcers...

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How to eat safely?

Hot pot often has raw meat, raw fish, raw vegetables. During the eating process, it is easy to be infected with pathogenic microorganisms and parasitic eggs. Therefore, it is necessary to boil while eating to achieve the sterilization effect.

- Do not eat food that is too hot to avoid damaging the mouth and esophageal mucosa, leading to mouth and esophageal ulcers, or harming teeth, gums and causing allergic toothache.

- You should not eat hot pot for a long time because it will cause gastric juice, bile, pancreatic juice and other digestive glands to secrete abnormally, leading to digestive disorders, abdominal pain and diarrhea.

- Hot pot broth is best when it is freshly prepared. Hot pot broth should not be used multiple times, and especially should not be reused overnight.

- Do not put too many ingredients in the hot pot at the same time when eating and do not let the food overcook. If you put fresh seafood in the pot with raw meat, animal organs and starchy potatoes, your hot pot will become a mixed dish with mixed flavors. Moreover, you also risk getting parasites that are harmful to the digestive system.

Folk taboos

- Do not eat seafood with fruit because it reduces protein and calcium. It also causes acid to combine with seafood protein to form indigestible deposits, stimulating the digestive system, leading to stomach pain, nausea or vomiting... Also, do not use vitamin C when eating crustaceans because it will convert into other substances that are harmful to the body. If you want to eat fruit, you should eat it 2 hours after eating seafood.

- Do not eat shrimp with goat meat. Do not take vitamin C after eating shrimp.

- Do not eat clams, mussels, or oysters while drinking beer because beer will cause excess protein to accumulate in the body, causing joint pain and swelling. People with gout will have sudden pain.

- After swimming, you should not drink beer with seafood because it can easily trigger gout attacks.

And many other taboos in folklore, some are correct, some are not reliable. But seafood has a lot of protein, so you should not eat fruit right after eating because it digests slower than normal. You should also not eat a lot of seafood at the same time, or in one day, as it can easily cause stomachaches and diarrhea.

If you have a stomachache or dizziness after eating hot pot or seafood, you should induce vomiting or go to the hospital immediately to have adequate solutions, means, and emergency medicine.

According to giadinh.net