What to do if you have a food allergy and stomach upset

The first reaction is to immediately stop eating all suspected allergic foods. If you have eaten it within 10 minutes, are fully conscious, and have no history of peptic ulcers. If you can vomit, vomit out the undigested food in your stomach first. If it is also accompanied by wheals on the skin, a tight throat, and difficulty breathing, don’t wait and call 120 directly. This is a signal that may induce a severe allergic reaction. Don’t bear it.

A while ago, I accompanied a friend to the emergency room and met such a young man. After eating half a plate of drunken shrimps, his stomach hurt. He thought the seafood was stale and caused gastroenteritis. I ate two bottles of Huoxiang Zhengqi water at home and couldn't hold it down. He waited until a red rash began to appear on his body and his eyelids were so swollen that he couldn't open his eyes.

Many people are confused about the difference between stomach discomfort caused by allergies and ordinary stomach pain. Some people think that as long as the stomach discomfort is taken some omeprazole or omeprazole, it will be cured. In fact, this statement is not entirely correct, and it depends on the situation. If you just have a simple stomach bloating and dull pain, and no other systemic symptoms, and you know what type of food allergy you have, and you have taken antihistamines before without any adverse reactions, you can just take some regular anti-allergic drugs. Once the allergic reaction subsides, the edema and smooth muscle spasm of the gastric mucosa will naturally be relieved, and there is no need to take too many extra gastric drugs to increase the metabolic burden.

As for whether to induce vomiting, in fact, different people’s situations are different, and there is no absolute right or wrong. If you already have reflux esophagitis or gastric ulcer, don’t induce vomiting even if you have just eaten allergens. A strong vomiting reaction can easily tear the already fragile mucous membrane of the digestive tract. In severe cases, it can cause coughing and suffocation, which is not worth the gain. In this case, drink more warm salt water to speed up metabolism, and it is safer to go to the hospital to find a doctor to prescribe appropriate medicine.

I am mildly allergic to cashew nuts. I once ate a salad out and didn’t notice that cashew nuts were mixed in. I ate less than half of the salad before I realized what happened. After a while, my stomach started to feel a dull pain. I didn’t get a rash or wheeze, so I went home and took a loratadine pill. I sat on the sofa and drank half a pot of warm millet porridge. After lying there for an afternoon, I was fine. I didn’t take any other stomach medicine. If you often have stomach discomfort for no apparent reason, and you can’t find gastritis or gastric ulcers, you might as well check for food allergens. I had a colleague like this who had stomach discomfort for three or four years and always thought it was caused by irregular diet. Finally, it was found out that he was mildly allergic to barley. After he stopped eating ordinary pasta and replaced it with multigrain, he never had stomach pain again, and he even stopped taking stomach medicine for several years.