Symptoms of protein poisoning

summary

Protein is the material basis of human life activities, which is a polymer compound composed of a variety of amino acids. For example, enzymes with catalytic function, antibodies with immune function, plasma proteins with transport function, muscle proteins with motor function, and structural proteins of biofilm are all proteins. Lack of protein can affect health. Let's talk about the symptoms of protein poisoning.

Symptoms of protein poisoning

Excessive intake of high protein food in a short time may cause "protein poisoning". This is because the protein in food is decomposed by various protein digestive enzymes in the body to form absorbable amino acids.

In general, when the human body has excess protein, in addition to a part of the synthetic tissue protein, the excess part will be converted into sugar and fat for storage, or be excreted by the liver synthetic urea, there will be no adverse reactions. However, children with poor liver and kidney function or elderly people with poor function suddenly eat a large amount of high protein food, which is easy to cause digestion and absorption disorders. At this time, protein will produce a large number of ammonia containing toxoids under the action of intestinal bacteria, resulting in a sudden increase of blood ammonia, which will spread to brain tissue, causing metabolic dysfunction of brain tissue.

Protein poisoning can also occur in some people who are hungry for a long time and suddenly eat a lot of big meat and fish. Mild cases of protein poisoning have vomiting, dizziness, palpitation, abdominal pain, abdominal distension symptoms, severe cases may lead to coma or even death.

matters needing attention

In daily life, often let some patients with body deficiency, early recovery of serious illness and maternal eat a lot of eggs, in order to enhance the physique. However, the effect is often not obvious, and even side effects, such as abdominal distension, dizziness, limb weakness, serious cases can also lead to coma. Modern medicine calls these symptoms "protein poisoning syndrome". People with deficiency of body, patients with serious illness and puerpera all suffer from gastrointestinal dysfunction due to various reasons. If they eat a lot of eggs at this time, they will increase the burden of the digestive system. Eat more eggs, the body protein content is too high, cause abnormal decomposition in the intestine, produce a lot of ammonia, this kind of ammonia is toxic, once ammonia dissolved in the blood, it is harmful to the human body. Sometimes, the undigested protein spoils in the intestine and produces hydroxyl, phenol, indole, etc. these chemicals are also very toxic to the human body, so the pathological manifestations of the above "protein poisoning syndrome" appear. According to the human body's digestion and absorption of protein, 2 to 3 eggs a day is enough.