Do calcium tablets hurt the stomach?

Calcium plays a very important role in the human body, especially for strong bones, which cannot be separated from the role of calcium. However, due to insufficient absorption of calcium by the human body, bone problems are prone to occur. At this time, you need to take some calcium tablets to supplement calcium. When people take calcium tablets, they are usually solid calcium. Some ingredients contained in solid calcium can easily cause acid reflux. Wouldn't solid calcium be harmful to the human stomach?

1. Does calcium affect the stomach?

Generally, solid calcium may damage the stomach and cause discomfort such as gas production and nausea. In comparison, liquid calcium is easier to absorb and safer.

2. Foods that hurt your stomach

coffee. Coffee can irritate the stomach and cause it to secrete too much gastric acid, leading to indigestion and heartburn. Especially people with stomach ulcers and heartburn symptoms should drink less coffee. Drink less caffeinated beverages.

Soda and juice. Both of these drinks contain a lot of fructose. About 30% of adults cannot absorb fructose well, which leads to gastrointestinal discomfort.

Mint. Peppermint relaxes the esophageal sphincter and increases the chances of heartburn. Be careful with anything that contains mint, such as mint tea, mints, and mint gum.

3. Eating habits that damage the stomach

Eating too fast. Eating too fast and swallowing food too tightly will result in insufficient chewing of food, and insufficient secretion of digestive juices, making it difficult to fully digest food. Over time, this can easily lead to stomach problems.

Overeating. Overeating not only makes the stomach's digestive capacity unable to bear it, causing indigestion, but can sometimes lead to serious diseases such as acute gastric dilatation and gastric perforation.

Read (play) and eat at the same time. Some people like to eat and drink while reading a newspaper, or eat and play while playing. In this way, since a large amount of blood is supplied to the brain when reading or playing, the blood supply to the gastrointestinal tract for digestion and absorption is relatively reduced, which affects digestion and absorption. If this continues for a long time, it can easily lead to chronic stomach problems.

Misconceptions about nourishing the stomach

1. Drink porridge regularly

In the past, it was recommended that patients with stomach problems should eat a diet consisting mainly of porridge. In fact, porridge is swallowed without chewing and is not fully mixed with saliva, so it cannot be initially digested by the amylase in the saliva. At the same time, porridge contains more water, which dilutes the gastric juice when it enters the stomach, which becomes the reason why porridge is difficult to digest. In addition, drinking porridge increases the capacity of the stomach relatively, but provides less calories, which not only increases the burden on the stomach to a certain extent, but also makes the nutrition relatively insufficient. Therefore, patients with stomach problems should not drink porridge every day. As long as they chew dry rice slowly, it will not only be harmless to the stomach, but will promote digestion and be beneficial to health.

2. Milk can cure stomach problems

The traditional concept is that milk can neutralize stomach acid and help the recovery of peptic ulcers. The latest research shows that milk can promote gastric acid secretion. It has been reported that gastric acid secretion increases by 30% after drinking milk. Therefore, patients with peptic ulcers and people who develop diarrhea after drinking milk should not drink milk. Yogurt contains more lactase, which is easily digested and absorbed and has no adverse reactions to peptic ulcers.

3. Eat small, frequent meals

Many people will advise patients with gastric ulcers to "eat small meals frequently." However, new studies have shown that food entering the stomach is itself a stimulus to the gastric mucosa, which not only speeds up gastrointestinal motility, but also increases the secretion of gastric acid and pepsin, which is not beneficial to the healing of ulcers. At present, it is advocated that the diet of ulcer patients should focus on regular time and quantitative amount, and avoid hunger and fullness.