What are the dietary precautions for adenomyosis?

What are the precautions for adenomyosis?

1. Don’t be greedy for cold food: Women with poor gastrointestinal function should avoid eating raw, cold foods before and during menstruation, such as cold drinks, raw cold dishes, crabs, snails, clam meat, leeches, pears, persimmons, watermelons, bananas, bitter melon, mangosteen, mung beans, cucumbers, water chestnuts, grapefruits, oranges, etc., so as to avoid cold stagnation and blood stasis which may aggravate dysmenorrhea.

2. Avoid eating sour foods: Acidic foods have astringent and astringent effects, which make the blood stagnant and not conducive to the smooth flow and discharge of menstrual blood. Therefore, people with dysmenorrhea should try to avoid eating such foods during menstruation. Acidic foods include rice vinegar, hot and sour vegetables, kimchi, pomegranates, green plums, bayberries, strawberries, carambolas, cherries, sour dates, mangoes, apricots, plums, lemons, etc.

3. Don’t eat spicy food: Some patients with dysmenorrhea have heavy menstrual flow. Eating spicy, warm and irritating food will aggravate pelvic congestion and inflammation, or cause excessive contraction of uterine muscles, which will aggravate dysmenorrhea. Therefore, patients with dysmenorrhea should try to eat less or no spicy food such as chili pepper, pepper, garlic, onion, ginger, leek, chicken soup, durian and spicy condiments.

4. Do not eat foods that are hot, coagulant, or contain hormones, such as longan, red dates, donkey-hide gelatin, and royal jelly.

5. Do not eat mutton, shrimp, crab, eel, salted fish, black fish and other foods.

6. Eat more calcium-containing foods. You can also take active calcium citrate to supplement the lack of dietary calcium.