How harmful areca nut is! ! !

According to medical statistics, betel nut chewing is closely related to oral cancer. For example:

1. More than 80% of oral cancer patients in Taiwan Province Province have the habit of chewing betel nut.

2. Due to the increase of betel nut chewing population in recent years, the incidence of oral cancer is increasing year by year.

People who chew betel nuts are 20 times more likely to develop oral cancer than ordinary people.

It can be seen that chewing betel nut has a great influence on our health.

Secondly, spitting betel nut juice and residue everywhere will not only affect the city appearance, but also be unsightly. Some unscrupulous betel nut manufacturers often try their best to attract customers, especially "betel nut beauty" can be seen everywhere, which has a bad influence on children's physical and mental health and good social customs.

Moreover, because of the high profit of selling betel nuts, some people plant betel nuts on slopes that are not suitable for planting betel nuts, resulting in soil erosion. When the typhoon comes, it is easy to produce mudslides and cause losses to people's lives and property.

(1) Common hazards:

Chewing betel nut will not only make teeth blacken, wear and tear, shake and gum atrophy, but also cause periodontal disease, oral submucosal fibrosis and oral leukoplakia, and also lead to oral cancer. According to the survey, 88% patients with oral cancer have the habit of chewing betel nut.

(2) Serious health hazards:

1. Precancerous lesions induced by areca catechu:

(1) Oral submucosal fibrosis;

Common in buccal mucosa, followed by jaw area. The oral mucosa will have burning sensation, ulcer and whitening, which will eventually lead to difficulty in opening mouth and swallowing. Some patients with oral submucosal fibrosis will become oral cancer.

(2) Oral leukoplakia:

Common in buccal mucosa, tongue, floor of mouth and lip angle. Mucosal leukoplakia will gradually change from innocence to mixed white, and some patients with leukoplakia will become oral cancer.

2. Oral cancer:

Areca nut, commonly known as Ziziphus jujuba seed, contains arecoline, which is carcinogenic. The added "lime" helps to fight cancer. The World Health Organization (WHO) came to the conclusion after consulting the literature related to betel nut and cancer;

(1) Chewing tobacco and betel nut have been identified as the cause of human cancer.

(2) Smoking and chewing betel nut can easily lead to oral cancer and throat cancer.

For your health, please don't chew betel nut. For example, smokers should quit, because the combination of the two is more likely to cause oral cancer, laryngeal cancer, pharyngeal cancer and esophageal cancer, and smoking and chewing betel nut combined with drinking will have a stronger carcinogenic effect.

3. Tooth damage

Because of frequent chewing action, it exceeds the normal load, resulting in tooth occlusion (wear) and gum jitter.

The harm of betel nut

The population chewing betel nut is growing rapidly, and it is estimated that Taiwan Province Province has exceeded 2.6 million. The average age group of betel nut chewers also showed a downward trend. The universality of betel nut chewing has also expanded from low social and economic status and working class to white-collar intellectuals. Areca catechu is Hong Chunzu's favorite and "green gold" in the eyes of farmers, but it is the biggest killer of people's health and water resources in Taiwan Province Province. According to statistics, more than 50,000 hectares of betel nut orchards in Taiwan Province Province (equivalent to the size of two Taipei cities) not only cause about 4 billion metric tons of water loss every year, but also seriously damage forest land. Moreover, Chinese people spend more than 90 billion yuan a year on eat areca, which is equivalent to the cost of half a highway, which is quite amazing. What is even more frightening is its carcinogenic and cancer-promoting effects, which makes oral cancer in China become the top ten causes of cancer death. Therefore, how to promote the prevention and control of betel nut and reduce Chinese people's hobby of chewing betel nut has become one of the priorities of health units.

Physical harm: In addition to oral diseases and oral cancer, excessive consumption can also produce poisoning symptoms, such as excitement, dull eyes, trembling all over, unsteady walking, strange or rude behavior, etc. In addition, it can also lead to acute mental illness, including auditory hallucination, self-expansion, obsessive-compulsive delusion, delirium and so on.

Economic hazard: spitting betel nut juice will be prohibited from being fined; Eat areca is expensive, increasing the burden of expenditure; Medical expenses.

Social harm: if you eat it for a long time, your teeth will turn black and your mouth will turn red, which is quite indecent.

Environmental pollution: Spitting betel nut juice everywhere not only pollutes the environment and is unsightly, but also the bacteria in the spit betel nut juice will be scattered with the wind and inhaled into the public lungs.

Soil and water conservation: Because Areca catechu has shallow roots, large-scale planting will seriously damage soil and water conservation.