What to do if you feel stomach discomfort after drinking

Many people need to drink alcohol because they have to attend parties or when relatives and friends visit. After alcohol enters the abdomen, it will first flow to the stomach and intestines. After the gastrointestinal mucosa is stimulated by alcohol, it will not only be accompanied by symptoms of nausea and vomiting, but also stomach pain. People with poor stomachs will also suffer from abdominal cramps. No matter what kind of wine it is, the stomach will feel uncomfortable after drinking it. After drinking, you can drink some yogurt, milk and white flour porridge, etc. You should also pay attention to these conditionings. You cannot drink on an empty stomach to avoid causing greater damage to the stomach and intestines.

How to avoid being drunk

1. Do not drink on an empty stomach, because alcohol is absorbed quickly on an empty stomach and people get drunk easily. In addition, drinking on an empty stomach can cause great damage to the gastrointestinal tract and easily cause gastric bleeding and gastric ulcers. The best prevention method is to eat oily foods, such as fatty meat, pork knuckles, etc., or drink milk before drinking to use the indigestible nature of fat in food to protect the stomach and prevent alcohol from penetrating the stomach wall. Don't drink on an empty stomach; this is the main trick to not getting drunk. Because this can prolong the time that ethanol is absorbed in the body.

2. Do not drink it with carbonated beverages such as cola, soda, etc. The ingredients in these beverages can speed up the body's absorption of alcohol.

3. After drinking, you can try to drink hot soup, especially fish soup stewed with shredded ginger, which is particularly effective in sobering up.

4. Since alcohol can cause great damage to the liver, you should eat more green leafy vegetables when drinking. The antioxidants and vitamins in them can protect the liver. You can also eat some soy products, the lecithin in them can protect the liver.

5. The popular belief that drinking strong tea can sober you up has no scientific basis. The tea polyphenols in tea have a certain liver-protecting effect, but the cationic acid in strong tea can cause blood vessels to constrict and blood pressure to rise, which will aggravate headaches. Therefore, you can drink some light tea after getting drunk, but it is best not to drink strong tea. If someone drinks too much involuntarily, they can eat some fruit or drink some juice afterwards, because the acidic components in fruit and juice can neutralize the alcohol. Many people often do not eat after drinking, which is more harmful. They should eat some easily digestible food, such as a bowl of noodles.

What to eat when drunk?

1. White flour porridge

For some people who experience stomach discomfort, nausea and vomiting after drinking, experts remind them to drink an appropriate amount of white flour porridge at this time, so that the stomach discomfort can be effectively relieved immediately. In addition, you can also drink some white flour porridge before drinking, which can not only better protect the health of the stomach and intestines, but also avoid the occurrence of frivolous and negative behaviors such as drunkenness. If you don’t have white flour porridge at home, you can use other porridge instead, but you must be careful that the porridge cannot contain any oil.

2. Yogurt

Mongolians are heavy drinkers, and yogurt is their secret recipe for sobering up. Once they drink too much, they drink yogurt, which can protect the gastric mucosa and delay the absorption of alcohol. Because yogurt is rich in calcium, it is particularly effective in relieving symptoms of irritability after drinking.

3. Milk

If you drink too much and there is no way to relieve it, you can go to a convenience store and buy a small box of pure milk. When you drink it, the milk can coagulate the protein in the human body, protect the gastric mucosa, and alleviate the absorption of alcohol.

4. Millet porridge

The efficacy of millet is just as Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica - "it can treat gastric nausea, heat dysentery, replenish deficiency, and open up the stomach and intestines." In fact, whether it is nausea, heat dysentery, or weakness, they are all related to poor spleen and stomach function, so the most important effect of millet is to nourish the spleen and stomach. Why millet can nourish the spleen and stomach. We usually say that sweet taste enters the spleen and yellow color enters the spleen. In terms of the five colors, millet is yellow. In terms of taste, millet tastes sweet and salty. Therefore, Chinese medicine says that millet can "harmony the stomach and warm the middle." Northern women do not eat meat after giving birth or during the confinement period. They mainly eat millet porridge. This is mainly for this reason.