What is the diet during menstruation?

Women's bodies are particularly fragile during menstruation, so they need to supplement nutrition through diet and other channels to avoid being invaded by pathogens and becoming ill. For women, they all know that diet during menstruation is very important, but they are not always able to achieve good results. Therefore, it is very necessary to understand what diet is like during menstruation. Only in this way can you avoid harm and win health.

Women's menstrual discomfort is sometimes caused by eating foods that are not allowed. Generally speaking, women should abstain from certain foods and pay attention to their diet during menstruation. If you eat something you shouldn’t eat, it will not only cause physical discomfort but also affect your future health.

What are the dietary taboos during menstruation? There are 5 types of food that you should not eat during menstruation. Let’s take a look at whether you are eating the right things during your period.

Taboo 1:

Women who eat salty food should remember to avoid eating salty food before menstruation. Because salty food will increase the body's salt and water storage, before menstruation, the progesterone level will increase, which can easily lead to edema, headaches and other phenomena. If you start eating a low-salt food 10 days before your period, the above symptoms will not occur.

Taboo 2:

Many women who like to drink carbonated beverages will experience fatigue and lack of energy during menstruation, which is a sign of iron deficiency. Because soda and other beverages mostly contain phosphates, they react chemically with iron in the body, making it difficult to absorb the iron. In addition, drinking too much soda will neutralize the bicarbonate in the soda with gastric juice, reducing the digestive ability and bactericidal effect of gastric acid and affecting appetite.

Taboo three:

Eating spicy food During menstruation, women feel particularly tired, their digestive function weakened, and their appetite poor. Therefore, they should pay attention to eating light and easy-to-digest and absorb food, and avoid eating too acidic and irritating foods, such as hawthorn, sauerkraut, vinegar, chili, mustard, pepper, etc.

During menstruation, you should eat light, plain, nutritious food. Avoid spicy food to avoid stimulating blood vessel dilation, causing early menstruation and excessive menstrual flow. Women during menstruation should not eat spicy and irritating foods, otherwise it is easy to cause dysmenorrhea, excessive menstrual bleeding and other symptoms.

Taboo 4:

Eating spicy, raw and cold foods Spicy, raw and cold foods are irritating and can easily cause pelvic vasoconstriction

This can cause too little menstrual blood flow or even sudden cessation of menstrual blood flow. In addition, irritating substances such as tobacco and alcohol will also have a certain impact on menstruation. If you do not pay attention to avoid these adverse stimuli, dysmenorrhea or menstrual disorders will occur in the long run.

Eating raw and cold food during menstruation will not only cause dysmenorrhea but also cause harm to the body. In addition, cold foods such as crabs, snails, bamboo shoots, etc. are also avoided.

Taboo 5:

Eat cheese foods Cheese is the root cause of dysmenorrhea. Foods such as milk, cheese, cream, yeast milk, eggs, etc. can destroy the absorption of magnesium and cause dysmenorrhea.

Diet during menstruation is an important aspect of maintaining women's reproductive health and is knowledge that women must master, because reproductive health is related to fertility health. If reproductive health is threatened, fertility will also be affected. Therefore, in order to protect your fertility, it is very necessary to take good care of your diet during menstruation.