Can I eat seaweed soup during menstruation?

Menstruation is closely related to fertility. Once menstruation is irregular, it may lead to infertility. Therefore, women should pay attention to menstruation and take good care of themselves during menstruation. Care during menstruation mainly includes nutritional supplements, hygiene care and mood regulation. Among these, dietary regulation is the most difficult, because women are always unable to control their appetite due to various reasons such as weather and mood.

Therefore, many women always like to eat raw and cold food, including cold drinks, etc. during menstruation, which are taboos during menstruation. Can you eat seaweed soup during menstruation? Let’s first understand what foods you can’t eat during menstruation.

1. Avoid excessive sugar intake

In the past, many people believed that eating sweets could improve menstrual discomfort, so brown sugar, sweet biscuits or chocolate have almost become "regular medicines" for women during menstruation. It is now believed that eating high-sugar sweets will cause blood sugar to rise rapidly, which does have the effect of stabilizing mood. However, once blood sugar drops, it will cause a greater gap and emotions will become unstable. According to a British magazine, deliberately eating sweets during menstruation will not only fail to improve menstrual discomfort symptoms, but may affect the balance of hormones in the body due to unstable blood sugar, and aggravate the feeling of discomfort.

2. Avoid eating raw or cold food

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that blood flows when it is hot and stagnates when it is cold. Eating raw and cold food during menstruation can not only hinder digestion, but also easily damage the body's yang energy, leading to internal cold. The coldness will stagnate and cause menstrual blood to flow poorly, resulting in too little menstrual blood, or even dysmenorrhea. Even in the hot summer season, it is not advisable to eat cold drinks during menstruation. On the contrary, the diet during menstruation should be mainly warm, and foods such as kelp, jujube, sorghum rice, coix seed, mutton, apples, etc. should be selected; eat less cold, slippery foods such as pears, water chestnuts, water chestnuts, winter melon, kale, and hemp seeds.

You can consume seaweed soup during menstruation, but it should be consumed in moderation. What needs to be reminded here is that if women have irregular menstruation before giving birth, they should receive diagnosis and treatment in time. Even if you are not trying to get pregnant, you still need to receive diagnosis and treatment to avoid infertility in the future. Of course, women with regular menstruation should not ignore menstrual care, otherwise it will easily lead to irregular menstruation.