For many women, we have experienced dysmenorrhea. In the process of relieving and treating dysmenorrhea, we must adhere to the method suitable for ourselves according to the causes of dysmenorrhea. At the same time, some dietary taboos in the three meal diet must be observed in the process of treatment.
Six dietary taboos of dysmenorrhea
1. Avoid salty food
If women eat too much salt before menstruation, it will increase the salt and water storage in the body. In addition, the increase of progesterone in the body before menstruation is also prone to edema, headache and other phenomena. If you start to eat low salt food 10 days before menstruation, you will not have the above symptoms.
2. Avoid strong tea
In strong tea, caffeine content is relatively high, caffeine will stimulate nerves and cardiovascular, it is easy to cause dysmenorrhea, menstrual delay and excessive menstrual blood. At the same time, the tannic acid in the strong tea will make the iron reception appear smothering and cause the blood deficiency of iron deficiency.
3. Do not drink with air
A lot of women like to drink gas drinks, in menstrual period will appear tired and weak and the phenomenon of low spirit, this is the performance of iron deficiency. Because most beverages such as soda contain phosphate, the iron in the same body produces chemical reaction, which makes the iron difficult to absorb. In addition, drinking more soda will neutralize the sodium bicarbonate and gastric juice in the soda, reduce the digestion ability and bactericidal effect of gastric acid, and affect appetite.
4. Avoid foods that affect sexual function
Rabbit meat, bracken, wax gourd, water chestnut, water bamboo, mustard, black fungus, hemp kernel.
5. Avoid spicy
Such as cinnamon, pepper, clove, pepper, etc. This kind of food is seasoning. In normal times, when cooking, you can put some chili in the dish to make it taste better. But in the menstrual period of female friends are not suitable to eat these spicy stimulating food, otherwise easily lead to dysmenorrhea, excessive menstrual blood and other diseases.
6. Avoid raw and cold
In traditional Chinese medicine, the cold food includes stone flower, pear, water chestnut, banana, stone ear and ground ear. Most of these foods have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxification, nourishing yin and reducing fire. It is beneficial to human body to eat them at ordinary times. However, we should try not to eat or eat less of these foods during menstruation to avoid the symptoms of dysmenorrhea and menstrual disorders.
Dietary principles for dysmenorrhea
Principle 1 / week before menstruation:
Diet should be light, eat more digestible, nutritious food. For example, you can eat more legumes, fish and other high protein foods, and increase green leaves, vegetables, fruits, but also to drink more water, to maintain unobstructed stool, reduce pelvic congestion.
Principle 2 / early menstruation:
Two days after menstruation, women often feel low back, low appetite and poor appetite. At this time, it's better to eat more appetizers and digestible food, such as noodles and barley porridge.
Principle 3 / the third day of menstruation:
During the official menstruation period, we should eat more easily digestible and multi nutrient rich foods to supplement nutrition, for example, soybeans, Maodou, sesame, grapes, cherries, red phoenix vegetables, etc.
Principle 4 / within one week after menstruation:
Part of the blood is lost during menstruation. Therefore, the late menstruation needs to be supplemented with protein and iron, potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium food, such as red meat, animal liver, eggs, milk, etc.
Warm reminder
Some girls like drinking during menstruation, hoping to accelerate blood circulation. However, it is not recommended to drink alcohol if the menstrual blood volume is large at ordinary times, so as to avoid more blood volume. But if the average woman, especially the one with less blood volume, drinks a small glass of red wine, or moderate consumption of food containing alcohol, there is no problem in principle.
