Harm when eating too much garlic and raw garlic

If you eat a lot of raw garlic, sometimes you may feel some discomfort in your stomach, and diarrhea. So do not use garlic with high doses and long term.

Garlic easily causes burns, irritation of the oral mucosa, tongue, gastrointestinal tract, disperses odor through breath and sweat.

You should not eat garlic cloves, but cut or crush them, so that garlic is exposed to the air, helping alliin in garlic to transform into allicin.

Do not eat garlic when hungry or in the process of taking medicine. Limit eating more than 10g of garlic a day because eating too much can cause stomach damage.

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People with heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes must be careful when using garlic.

Cases should not eat garlic : people with eye disease, physical weakness, heat, people with liver disease, or go outside, people who are seriously ill. In addition, people with heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes must be extra careful when using garlic. Especially those who are suffering from blood diseases because garlic will thin the blood.

In addition, when using garlic you need to pay attention to the following:

  1. Breastfeeding women should not eat garlic. Because the active ingredient of garlic can be excreted in breast milk, the infant may have colic. On the other hand, eating too much garlic can cause indigestion.
  2. Do not apply garlic to the skin for longer than 10 minutes, may burn skin. Fresh garlic water used on the skin can cause allergies such as redness or swelling of skin in some people. When using garlic to treat pinworms (ingestion and enema of garlic fluids), do not overdose can cause intestinal inflammation or diarrhea.

According to the physician Dinh Cong Bay, TP Medicine Association. HCM, fresh garlic can be eaten raw or beamed into sauce. Eating 10g of garlic every day is completely harmless. Garlic has bactericidal and anti-cancer effects, but if you eat too much garlic causes stomach ulcers, anemia, damage to the liver and eyes.

  1. Do not eat garlic on an empty stomach, will strongly stimulate the stomach lining, intestines, heartburn can cause esophagitis.
  2. Do not eat too much garlic regularly (maximum no more than 15g / day), do not eat too much garlic once, as it will irritate the eyes, cause eye conjunctivitis.

Do not use garlic and garlic containing preparations and Warfarin (anticoagulant) before surgery. Pregnant women, people who are negative in internal heat (body is thin, yellow, dry, thirsty, hot inside), pain in the eyes, nose, teeth, neck, tongue, mouth . do not use medicine have garlic.