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Children who eat 4 persimmons in a row grow “persimmon stones”
Repeated abdominal pain for more than half a month and took 9 hours to eliminate
Xiamen Net News According to Quanzhou Net (Reporter Xu Yimei, Correspondent He Yuhui) Rice cooked with fish fat, yellow khaki, persimmon after autumn is delicious. A mother in Quanzhou bought Xiaobin (a pseudonym) from a 5-year-old boy with her favorite persimmons a few days ago. The boy ate 4 persimmons at one time, but had repeated abdominal pain for more than half a month. Upon examination by the doctor, the persimmon that was eaten in the stomach turned into a “persimmon stone”.
4 persimmons become hard “persimmon stone”
After eating 4 persimmons at once, Xiaobin began to feel abdominal pain. At first, the parents thought that the child might have a cold or indigestion, but after more than half a month of observation, the child still did not improve.
On November 3, the family took Xiaobin to the nearest hospital for treatment and a color Doppler ultrasound examination revealed “the contents of the stomach cavity.” The family was still very perplexed at first, after the doctor explained, the mother who suddenly realized that it was the persimmon that was eaten in the belly turned into a “persimmon stone”.
This is how you do it? The parents were very anxious and the doctor said they had to remove the persimmon stone as soon as possible. The family then took Xiaobin to the Gastroenterology Department at Quanzhou Children’s Hospital. After a series of examinations and preoperative preparations, Shi Runhai, the chief physician of the Department of Gastroenterology, performed a gastroscopic foreign body removal procedure for Xiaobin under general anesthesia.
Soon, the gastroscope successfully found the “culprit” in the boy’s stomach, which was a hard stone with a diameter of 7 cm × 3 cm. The doctor cut, glued, decomposed, and fished repeatedly, using 2 traps, 1 rat tooth clamp, and 4 foreign body net baskets before and after. The persimmon stone finally broke into a large number of small stones and came out of Xiaobin’s stomach. Director Shi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After more than 9 hours of prolonged surgery, the persimmon stone was finally removed, but it still left multiple ulcers on Xiaobin’s stomach. After the operation, the boy remained hospitalized for follow-up treatment.
Eating persimmon on an empty stomach is more likely to produce “persimmon stone”
How can this delicious persimmon turn into a “persimmon stone” when ingested in the stomach?
Director Shi presented that dried persimmons or persimmons contain a large amount of tannic acid (tannic acid), gums and pectin. When acidic substances are found, especially gastric acid, tannin and protein combine to form a tannin protein under the action of gastric acid. Chewing gum, chewing gum, and cellulose combine food and waste into a mass that is insoluble in water and becomes firmer over time.
Smaller persimmon stones can generally be excreted through the gastrointestinal tract without discomfort. Once a large amount of persimmons or persimmon cakes is consumed continuously to form large persimmon stones, they cannot be discharged from the stomach, leading to gastric persimmon stone syndrome and upper abdomen sagging. Sensation, abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, indigestion, acid reflux, heartburn, etc.
Persimmon stone entering the intestine can also block the intestine and cause intestinal obstruction. Due to gastric irritation and damage to the local mucosa, gastric ulcer, erosion of the gastric mucosa, pyloric obstruction, and intestinal obstruction are often complicated.
Director Shi said that in addition to persimmons, the popular hawthorn and black dates also contain a large amount of pectin and tannins. A large amount of consumption can also form gastroliths of plant origin. Today, there are many methods to treat persimmon stone disease. In internal medicine, the persimmon stone can be dispersed and broken by taking alkaline drugs or Chinese medicine, gastric lavage, external abdominal massage and squeezing, endoscopic lithotripsy, microwave or shock wave, etc. It promotes its excretion from the intestine. In the case of patients with uncomplicated gastroliths, it is recommended to follow a low residue diet after lithotripsy and check them periodically, if the patient has gastritis, ulcers, etc., stomach protection and other treatments are also required. If gastric stones are large, hard, and insoluble, or are complicated by severe gastric ulcers, bleeding, perforation, or obstruction, surgery is necessary.
Director Shi also recalled that the high acid environment is the condition of the persimmon pit. Acidity in the stomach is high in the fasting state. Avoid eating persimmons on an empty stomach and don’t eat them with acidic fruits like oranges and kiwis. Do not drink before and after eating persimmons. vinegar. Try not to eat the skin when eating persimmons, because the skin contains a lot of tannic acid and the astringent persimmon has a very high tannic acid content, so try not to eat or eat less.
Also avoid eating persimmon with protein rich foods like shrimp, crab, fish, milk, etc. If you have symptoms such as discomfort in the upper abdomen, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, pain in the whole abdomen, stopping of defecation and gas, and you have eaten a lot of persimmons or dried persimmons before, you should seek medical attention in time.
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