Eating quickly may cause intestinal perforation

Eating too quickly and not chewing well is one of the causes of intestinal obstruction caused by food residues. This condition can lead to severe complications such as intestinal perforation, necrotizing enterocolitis, and peritonitis.

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Intestinal obstruction is caused by food residues called gastrointestinal residues, which can occur at any age, especially school age children. The number of patients admitted to the hospital has increased in recent years. However, the clinical symptoms are often not specific, so the diagnosis is still difficult, leading to serious complications.

The cause of food residue is usually due to eating fruits with a lot of tannin (such as pink sap, pink soaked, figs, guava) and foods with high fiber content (eg orange, grapefruit, jackfruit, bamboo shoots). In particular, if you eat fasting, when your stomach is empty and your HCl concentration is high, fruits with a lot of pectin and plastic are easily precipitated, binding plant fibers, forming a residue.

The risk of food residues is often high in children with dental lesions, poor chewing, foods that are not crushed so that it is difficult to digest; or children with gastric and pancreatic diseases should affect the process of contraction and digestion, causing food to stagnate in the stomach, intestines, facilitating the formation of residue. In addition, food residues can be seen in children with mental disorders or chewing hair, swallowing fibrous residues in food.

The first manifestation of the disease is anorexia, nausea, fatigue, and weight loss. When there is food residue in the stomach, children often have abdominal pain, epigastric pain or pain around the navel, intermittent pain, vomiting much, clear yellow fluid. Abdominal examination felt u in the epigastric or left lower ribs, without pain.

The endoscopic gastrointestinal digestion will help detect early food residues in the intestinal cavity, stomach; usually a strong, cohesive block of mold shape according to the stomach, intestines.

To prevent the risk of creating food residues in the gastrointestinal tract, attention should be paid to the child's diet. Food must be cooked and cooked. When eating must chew carefully, do not eat too quickly or swallow food, do not eat too much vegetables and tannin and high fiber content, especially those with a history of gastric and intestinal surgery.

Assoc. DAO NGOC DIEN