Patients with irregular menstruation should start dietary adjustment 1 week before menstruation

Irregular menstruation is a disease that many women have encountered or are currently troubled by. In addition to actively cooperating with clinical treatment, patients should also pay special attention to dietary adjustments one week before menstruation and during menstruation.

1. Dietary considerations one week before menstruation

According to the menstrual cycle, women should start to pay attention to their diet one week before menstruation, focusing on a light, easily digestible nutritious diet, eating more high-protein foods such as beans and fish, increasing the intake of fresh green leafy vegetables, and drinking more water to keep bowel movements smooth, which can effectively prevent and relieve premenstrual breast pain and abdominal distension. It should be noted that before menstruation, women should consciously control their salt intake and avoid eating too salty foods to prevent increased salt and water storage in the body, and the occurrence of symptoms such as edema and headaches due to increased progesterone.

2. Dietary considerations during menstruation

At the beginning of menstruation, women often feel back pain and loss of appetite. At this time, you may want to eat more appetizing and easily digestible foods, such as jujube, noodles, and coix seed porridge, and pay attention to supplementing nutrients. In addition, during menstruation, the body will damage some blood, and various trace elements such as iron and potassium will also be lost in large quantities. Therefore, women should drink less carbonated beverages during menstruation to prevent the phosphates in the beverages from reacting chemically with the iron in the body and hindering the absorption of iron, which will aggravate various iron deficiency symptoms such as fatigue, lack of energy, etc.