Should I eat more vegetables when I have diarrhea?

Many fresh vegetables such as cabbage, leeks, beets, spinach, and cabbage contain nitrites or nitrates. In general, these vegetables have no adverse effects on the body. However, if it is left for too long or the pickling time is too short after cooking, nitrates in vegetables are reduced to nitrite by nitrate-reducing bacteria, and excessive consumption may cause poisoning.

This kind of food poisoning causes a sudden onset of illness from 1 to 3 hours after the meal. The lighter person has no other symptoms other than the mucous membranes and gray nails of the nails. Severe cases may have dizziness, headache, nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath, rapid pulse, and blood pressure drop. In severe cases, confusion, coma, convulsions, dyspnea, irregular heartbeat, dilated pupils, and markedly decreased blood pressure may occur. If not rescued, it can develop into respiratory and circulatory failure.

Therefore, when the digestive function is not good, it is best to go to the hospital for medical treatment, a reasonable choice of diet under the guidance of a doctor, and should reduce the amount of vegetables eaten.