Four adverse reactions to exercise after meals

Exercising after meals is a common thing for us, especially nowadays, many people like to do some exercise after meals, and it is usually walking, which is very helpful for aiding the body's digestion. However, many people also question whether such exercise is harmful to human health. Therefore, whether it is good to exercise after meals has become a topic now.

What about exercising after meals? Many people are not very clear about it, so we all need to learn more about it so that we will know whether to do some exercise after meals. Although exercise is helpful in strengthening the physical fitness and improving various physical problems, is this method suitable for doing it after meals?

Is it good to exercise after a meal?

It is not advisable to run or exercise after a meal. Because after eating, the digestive organs need a large amount of blood supply to carry out intensive "work". If you run or exercise at this time, your skeletal muscles will inevitably "steal" a lot of blood, resulting in ischemia of the digestive tract. Not only will the gastrointestinal motility be weakened, but the secretion of digestive juice will also be significantly reduced, which will cause indigestion.

Running or exercising after a meal can sometimes cause abdominal pain. Why is this? The reasons may be as follows:

1. After a meal, the stomach is full of food, and the gastrointestinal tract vibrates during exercise, causing the mesentery connecting the gastrointestinal tract to be stretched, causing abdominal pain.

2. During exercise, blood distribution shifts from the digestive tract to the skeletal muscles, causing ischemia in the digestive tract and leading to spasm of the gastrointestinal smooth muscles, thus causing abdominal pain.

3. During exercise, the body's oxygen demand increases. People who lack exercise usually have small lung capacity, so when they try to breathe hard, they are likely to have shallow and rapid breathing. This reduces the negative pressure in the chest cavity, causing obstruction of blood return to the liver, which leads to liver congestion and increased tension in the liver capsule, causing liver pain, which manifests as pain in the right upper abdomen.

4. Other gastrointestinal diseases, including appendicitis, happen to occur during exercise after a meal.

In the first three cases, the abdominal pain will be relieved quickly after the exercise stops. The fourth situation is an organic disease. The pain lasts longer than the first three, and in most cases it will gradually worsen. For this kind of abdominal pain, you should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time.

It is appropriate to rest for a while after a meal, generally 1 to 2 hours before running or doing other physical exercises.

Through the above introduction, we have some understanding of exercise after meals. Therefore, we must pay attention to it in normal times, especially those who like to exercise after meals. They should avoid such methods. If you like exercise, you can do it in the morning, or go out for exercise an hour after dinner in the evening. This is beneficial to the healthy development of the body.