The Best Time to Eat Cold Drinks

1.The best method for eating ice

Better eat at noon. Noon has the most luxuriant Yang qi of whole day. People have the most vigorous human body and get heat stroke easily in the noon. Eat ice at this time, people can not worry about harming body because of cold and better relieve summer heat for cooling. Thus, 3 pm is the best time to eat ice.

Eat after dinner for 1 hour. Due to the first injured part is digestive system after eating ice, eating ice with empty stomach will strongly stimulate stomach and intestines. Eating dinner with drinking iced drinks is not good for people. Alternate hot and cold for a short period will stimulate and hurt the stomach and intestines. People should drink iced drinks after at least one hour of eating dinner.

Keep in mouth for 5 seconds and then swallow. There is a study show that too fast speed of eating iced drinks will stimulate the sympathetic nerve and make induce headache due to rapid contraction of blood vessel. After the ice product entrance, people can first keep in the mouth for 5 seconds and then slowly swallow. In addition, for yogurt and other foods which only can be eaten with low temperature, people should take them out from the refrigerator and lay at room temperature for 10 minutes. Then eat it.

2.Sometimes, people can’t eat cold drinks

If you’re in a special time, you should not eat cold drinks.

The body is very hot: in the end of intense exercise and sweating, eat cold will make the body rapid cooling, headaches, stomach pain and muscle soreness.

Female menstruation and physiological period before and after a week: cold ice will induce algomenorrhea and blood clots.

The stomach is empty: spleen and stomach will be colder when people eat cold drink with empty stomach. Cold drink will influence digestion, even cause ulcer of alimentary canal.

Peogaster is discomfortable: In order to avoid getting a long cough due to the stimulation of tracheal contraction, people with cold, asthma, cough and other disease due to discomfortable peogaster are not suitable for eating cold.

Headache and muscle pain: cold drink will aggravate contraction of blood vessels and muscle and have more severe pain.

3.Put some ginger in the dish after a cold drink

Ginger has warm in property and acrid flavor with effect on promoting sweating and expelling cold. After eating cold drinks, ginger is the best remedy ingredients. People can drink ginger tea and eat dishes with ginger.

But classical prescriptions of TCM reminder, people cannot immediately drink hot ginger tea due to body temperature will be decreased after eating the ice. People can first drink boiled water, and then drink ginger tea.

4.The best time for the baby to eat cold drink

Some parents said that their children suddenly become emaciation, poor appetite and dropping spirit. At first, they thought the children may have excessive internal heat due to the hot weather. But the children do not want to eat anything and eat cold all day. Parents suddenly realized that the child’s disease may be related to the everyday cold drink.

The stomach is called the “second faces” of people. The children eat too much cold will hurt stomach, so they have “popsicle face”. Eat cold in hot day, children will have

Vasoconstriction and ischemia of mucosa due to cool stuff suddenly eats into stomach. Continuously eating for a long time, it will affect the gastrointestinal function. Patients often feel abdominal distension, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and heartburn.

This time of every year, “popsicle face” patients will increase. Experts warned that parents should supervise their children to rationally drink cold in summer. Do not eat immediately before or after a meal. Preferably eat after a meal for 1 hour. It can avoid stimulating spleen and stomach due to uneven cold and heat.