This fruit is the "plant contrast agent"?Unreliable!

The Yangtze River Daily Da Wuhan Client August 29th News After eating the red heart dragon fruit, the color of the excrement will become red. "Using this feature to investigate gastrointestinal function as a 'plant contrast agent", is it feasible? "Recently, Mr. Chen, a citizen, consulted. However, doctors have an attitude towards this approach.

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Red -hearted dragon fruit is rich in plant pigment anthocyanins. After consumption, anthocyanins enter the human body excrement through metabolism, which will turn the excreta into red. The characteristic of the red heart dragon fruit is often ridiculed by netizens as a paragraph: "Discovering blood in the stool, thinking that suffering from bowel cancer, after panic, remember to remember that this is the red heart dragon fruit that was eaten recently."

Mr. Chen said that he recently saw a point of view on the Internet that if he feels uncomfortable, he can eat a red heart dragon fruit. If the flesh is discharged within 4 hours, the amount of large amount and the color has not changed much, which means that gastrointestinal function comes out of gastrointestinal function. The problem.

"It sounds very reasonable and convenient to operate. I don't know if it is feasible." Mr. Chen was curious.

"The red heart dragon fruit does not have such a big effect, just treat it as food." Zhu Qingxi, deputy chief physician of the Department of Gastroenterology, Shouyi Hospital of Wuhan Third Hospital, replied.

Zhu Qingxi believes that, on the one hand, there is a strong personalized differences between everyone's gastrointestinal power and emptiness time. The excretion time after eating dragon fruit cannot be linked to the disease; on the other hand The difference in digestive function can be prompted and cannot directly reflect the condition of the disease.

"Clinically, the risk is greater, and it is more concerned about the intestinal adenoma, which is recognized as a carcinogenic lesion. Such lesions cannot be determined by the color of the excrement or the time of emptiness." Symptoms such as abdominal pain, abnormal excretion, and low intestinal obstruction should be selected to check the situation of colonoscopy or standardized digestive tract 钡 meals to check the situation under the advice of the doctor, which is accurate and reliable. (Changjiang Daily reporter Wang Chunlan correspondent Jiang Hongying Chen Shu)

【Edit: Fei Yinmei】

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