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Why can't you eat dog meat in summer?

Some people who are sick can't eat dog meat. Many people like to eat dog meat in summer, but it is not suitable for people with cerebrovascular disease. Because cerebrovascular patients often have arteriosclerosis, hypertension and other diseases, and dog meat is relatively high in calories, eating it will increase the blood pressure of patients and even lead to cerebral vascular rupture and bleeding. Therefore, patients with cerebrovascular disease, heart disease, hypertension and stroke sequelae can't eat dog meat. In addition, patients with thyroid dysfunction, gastritis, dysentery, ulcers, tuberculosis, bronchiectasis and other diseases can not eat dog meat.

Don't eat untested dog meat, be sure to eat some fresh dog meat with safety indicators, and don't eat some unknown dog meat to avoid rabies. There are three situations that are most susceptible to rabies. First, eat some dog meat without quarantine, and there are mad dogs with viruses. Second, dog meat must be well-done, not undercooked. Third, if the person who eats has wounds in the stomach and oral mucosa, such as ulcers, it is easy to be infected with rabies virus.

Don't drink tea after eating dog meat, because the combination of tannic acid in tea and protein in dog meat will produce a substance called protein tannic acid, which has a certain convergence effect, and will make your intestinal peristalsis not as fast as before, and the water in your stool will also be reduced. Therefore, toxic substances and carcinogens in the stool will be absorbed because they stay in the stomach for too long. So eating dog meat is not suitable for drinking tea.

Don't eat water chestnut mung bean with dog meat. When eating dog meat, it should not be eaten with bean products such as water chestnut and mung bean, so as not to cause adverse reactions such as bloating. And garlic can't be eaten with dog meat. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, dog meat can't be eaten with garlic. Chinese medicine says that garlic is pungent and slightly toxic, and has the functions of warming the middle warmer, regulating qi, sterilizing and promoting digestion. In fresh garlic, there is allicin produced by alliinase decomposition, which has bactericidal effect, stimulates gastrointestinal mucosa, increases gastric juice and enhances peristalsis. Dog meat is hot, garlic is irritating, dog meat is warm and garlic is smoked. If you eat together, it is easy to hurt the human body, and people who are easy to get angry at ordinary times can't eat it.