Are you using chopsticks clean?
Many people confidently say that chopsticks at home are cleaned and disinfected before use and should be very clean.
But what if you tell me that you think "clean" chopsticks may spread a variety of diseases during the meal time?
Chopsticks have become 'Pathfinder' for these illnesses
Family members and friends eat together to help enhance the feelings of each other dishes, but this diet, but also gave many opportunities for the spread of the disease. Beijing You'an Hospital Infectious Diseases Liang Lianchun, director of the reminder, the following types of diseases transmitted through the digestive tract, It may be in a meal, because of mixing chopsticks and other dishes spread.
1 liver disease: hepatitis A, hepatitis E.
It is estimated that some people may ask: Why there is no hepatitis B? In fact, different routes of transmission of hepatitis, such as hepatitis B is mainly transmitted by blood, saliva in the hepatitis B virus is generally small, not contagious, and hepatitis B patients eat at the same table, do not have to be too nervous .
Hepatitis A and Hepatitis E are mainly transmitted by fecal ulcers, and the virus is easily spread in the air. If cups, tableware and chopsticks are commonly used in patients with these two types of liver diseases for a long time, the virus may spread through saliva and the like.
2 common pediatric infectious diseases: hand, foot and mouth disease
Hand, foot and mouth disease is an infectious disease caused by enteroviruses, characterized by fever, oral ulcers and herpes, and most of the routes of transmission are nasal, pharyngeal secretions or faeces of infected persons.6 Children under 6 years old are in a state of "physiological immunodeficiency" ', More vulnerable to cross-infection due to sharing of dishes and other viruses.
If you have hand, foot and mouth disease at home, parents should pay attention to diet and personal hygiene, wash hands before meals and after meals, more open windows and ventilation, in kindergarten should try to concentrate on special chopsticks, to prevent children from infecting each other.
3 stomach: Helicobacter pylori infection, and may even cause stomach cancer
Helicobacter pylori is the culprit of many stomach diseases, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) affiliated with the World Health Organization has listed it as the first type of carcinogenic factor that causes stomach cancer.
Helicobacter pylori infection has the characteristics of family aggregation, that is, if there is one person infected at home, the chances of others being infected are also relatively high, because Helicobacter pylori can be found in plaque and saliva of infected persons, The case of chopsticks is likely to become the media of germs.
In addition, typhoid and other intestinal infectious diseases, may also be mixed with chopsticks and other tableware.
Clinically, the stomach is the most common due to mixing chopsticks, one of the common diseases in the meal, the consequences may be more serious .In fact, as long as you learn the following method, you can greatly reduce the infection Helicobacter pylori risks of.
With chopsticks, give health plus an insurance
Helicobacter pylori is a small bacteria that colonize the surface of the gastric mucosa, more than half of the world population are infected with it.Due to the European and American people do not like to share meals, Chinese people's Helicobacter pylori infection was significantly higher.A survey, Helicobacter pylori was 57% in Beijing and 59% in Shanghai. From childhood to adulthood, with the increase of age, the social contact area is getting wider and wider, and the infection rate of Helicobacter pylori is usually higher and higher.
Do not look at it is a small bacteria, may cause a lot of problems: chronic gastritis patients, a large part because of infection with it; gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, if not 'eliminate' Helicobacter pylori, it is likely to rule Not good; infection of Helicobacter pylori, gastritis, if not long-term, may develop into lymphoma or gastric cancer ... ...
The inspection and treatment of these diseases require a lot of time and money. For us, using chopsticks may be a simple and effective method of preventing gastric cancer with Chinese characteristics.
Wang Chen, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and dean of the Sino-Japanese Hospital, believes that meals and public chopsticks are a safe, healthy and hygienic way of eating. It is an effective measure to prevent illness from entering the mouth and can also reduce food waste.
At present, the current meal has not yet generally implemented the case, Academician Wang Chen suggested: dining out, can be served in each dish just when the first use of unused chopsticks aside some to put their dishes slowly eat, then Do not take the dishes out of the plate. This will not only prevent cross-infection, but also control the appetite, be responsible for your own health and respect others.
Pay attention to three 'disease prevention barrier'
Whether it is Helicobacter pylori, or other infectious diseases, there are many routes of transmission, can not be entirely attributed to chopsticks and other tableware.Therefore, in addition to the proper use of chopsticks, should also pay attention to a few anti-disease barrier.
Away from the stomach in the food 'dangerous elements'
Cold drinks, pickles, smoked and fried foods, alcohol, spicy foods, cold seafood and other gastrointestinal tract have a strong stimulus, often eat will make the digestive tract becomes fragile, spread through the digestive tract of infectious diseases more Therefore, in the usual should eat less of these foods, especially those with bad stomach, should pay more attention.
Get rid of 'easy habits'
Helicobacter pylori, etc. are also easy to eye bad habits people, such as the elderly and some parents like mouth to mouth to feed their children, or chew food and then feed, and sometimes with the children eat the same bowl of rice Some couples also Will be mixed with tableware feed each other These habits may be in the mouth, stomach Helicobacter pylori and other mutual transmission.
Emphasis on physical examination
To the hospital medical examination, gastroscopy and carbon 13 breath test can be effective in detecting H. pylori two methods, the latter more convenient. Helicobacter pylori infection in high-risk groups (such as home infection) should be every 2 to 3 years A gastroscopy; adults under the age of 50, to be done once every three years gastroscopy; 50 years of age, once every two years after diagnosis, should be promptly treated by a doctor if found in the physical examination of other diseases should also be Actively cooperate with treatment.
In addition, Chinese medicine has a spleen and stomach acupuncture points 'three points', we usually can often press, help regulate the spleen and stomach, disease prevention in the first place.
Three points of acupoints method is (with his left hand as an example): stretch out his left hand, palm toward himself in the section of the ring finger near the palm of the vertical draw three quarters of the vertical line of the fingers, and then draw two horizontal three This section of the finger equally divided the line, so that the formation of the six intersection point of the three points in the upper left corner of the intersection.
Use the same method of drawing lines, you can find the right hand eye point (located in the upper right corner of the intersection).
Usually available thumb with one hand on the other hand on the three eye points, each hand for 10 minutes, alternately.
Do not know if you usually have the habit of using public chopsticks? Prevention of gastrointestinal health and infectious diseases in peacetime, from now on, be your own health guardian!
