In daily life, people often make patients who are physically weak, recovering from a serious illness, or postpartum eat a large number of eggs to enhance their physical fitness. However, the effect is often not obvious, and side effects may even occur, such as abdominal bloating and discomfort, dizziness, and limb weakness. In severe cases, it can even lead to coma. Modern medicine refers to these symptoms as "protein poisoning syndrome."
Physically weak individuals, patients recovering from a serious illness, and postpartum women all have reduced gastrointestinal and digestive function due to various reasons. If they eat a large number of eggs at this time, it will increase the burden on the digestive system. Eating too many eggs leads to an excessively high protein content in the body, causing abnormal decomposition in the intestines and producing a large amount of ammonia. This ammonia is toxic, and once it dissolves into the bloodstream, it is harmful to the human body. Sometimes, incompletely digested protein putrefies in the intestines, producing hydroxyl, phenol, indole, and other substances, which are also highly toxic to the human body. This leads to the pathological manifestations of the aforementioned "protein poisoning syndrome." According to the human body's digestive and absorption capacity for protein, eating 2 to 3 eggs per day is sufficient.