Can drinking alcohol kill food germs? Doctor: Cooked food is better

The weather in summer is hot and humid, and mosquitoes that carry disease are prone to breeding, which may even contaminate ice cream and uncooked and uncooked food, such as sashimi, lettuce, oysters, etc., which can easily cause gastrointestinal discomfort and gastroenteritis in people with poor immunity. In addition, doctors remind that drinking alcohol cannot eliminate the germs in raw food, and people should still eat cooked food.

Zeng Daxing, director of the infectious department of Dali Ren'ai Hospital, said that there was once a male patient in his 40s who suffered from diabetes and cirrhosis. He mistakenly believed that drinking alcohol could eliminate possible pathogens on sashimi, so he often ate wine with sashimi. Unexpectedly, because his immunity was too poor to defend against the large number of invading pathogens, he eventually died of sepsis caused by Salmonella and Vibrio enteritidis.

In fact, the alcohol content of alcoholic beverages generally available on the market does not reach the medical disinfection concentration of 75%. In addition, it is unlikely that the time required for sterilization and disinfection can be achieved in the diet, so bacteria will multiply inside the raw meat.

For young people with normal immunity and no chronic gastrointestinal diseases, if the amount of bacteria ingested is not high, the body's immune system and gastrointestinal tract should be able to defend against and overcome the invading bacteria. Young people who often stay up late, do not get enough rest, are under great stress, have unbalanced nutrition, lack of exercise or have poor immunity may develop gastroenteritis if they ingest a large amount of pathogens because their body cannot resist.

In addition to teenagers, other groups with weak immunity, including infants, the elderly, people with diabetes, chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, uremia, autoimmune diseases, immunocompromised patients, cancer, chronic heart and lung diseases, and long-term bedridden patients, need to be especially careful about eating diseases.

Unclean food and drink can cause gastroenteritis at the mildest level and sepsis or even death at the worst. Dr. Zeng Daxing recommends that people with poor immunity should cook their food and not eat leftovers. Fruits should be peeled or peeled, drinking water should be boiled and disinfected, and they should pay attention to whether food is expired to avoid ingesting germs.