Is it good to eat brown sugar eggs during confinement?

During the confinement period, women's physical condition is weak, so they must have a reasonable diet to replenish blood and avoid affecting their body. Many people will eat brown sugar and eggs after giving birth, and they will eat like this throughout the confinement period. So can you eat brown sugar eggs during confinement?

You can eat brown sugar eggs during confinement. Women will excrete toxins after giving birth. Brown sugar generally has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which can promote the discharge of postpartum lochia. You can eat brown sugar during the confinement period, and it is okay to drink it immediately with water. Although brown sugar has many functions, you cannot rely solely on brown sugar to replenish blood during the confinement period. You should ensure nutritional balance. You can eat some eggs appropriately, but you should not eat them in the first few days after giving birth to avoid bloating.

Drinking brown sugar water after giving birth can immediately discharge the body's postpartum lochia, and can also immediately replenish the iron lost during the delivery process. It is generally sufficient to drink brown sugar water for 7 to 10 days. You can also eat more eggs and vegetables, which can promote the recovery of physical fitness, but don't rely entirely on the old generation's confinement method, eating only brown sugar and eggs.

After giving birth, eggs and brown sugar must be consumed in moderation, especially eggs. Eating too much can cause gastrointestinal pressure and cause indigestion. Many pregnant women eat more eggs for three meals a day, eating more than a dozen raw eggs a day, which also has a certain impact on the human body. Three raw eggs a day are enough. After giving birth, you must ensure a balanced diet, drink plenty of water, eat a light diet, and avoid spicy or irritating foods.

What foods can’t you eat during confinement?

1. It is not suitable to eat raw, cold food or hard food. The previous generation will remind you that "the food after giving birth should be warm, not cold!" Warmth can promote blood circulation, while coldness can coagulate blood, making the body's blood circulation obstructed, affecting the discharge of lochia, and causing indigestion, gastrointestinal imbalance, diarrhea, etc. Therefore, new mothers should avoid eating raw, cold, hard foods, cold foods such as ice cream, ice cream, cold drinks, iced fruits, etc., hard foods such as hard, fried, deep-fried and fat. These foods are all things that pregnant women should avoid.

2. It is not suitable to eat spicy food or irritating food. Spicy food and irritating food are very harmful to the body of pregnant women. Eating too much can easily damage body fluid, consume qi, and damage blood, aggravate qi and blood deficiency, and easily cause constipation, which is also bad for the baby after entering the breast milk. These ingredients include chili peppers, cloves, fennel, onions, ginger, mustard sauce, and strong tea, coffee, ethanol and other irritating foods.

3. It is not suitable to eat too salty food. Overly salty foods, such as pickled foods, are high in salt. The sodium in the salt can cause water retention, and in severe cases, lead to edema. But you cannot avoid salt either, because you will urinate and sweat more after giving birth, so the amount of salt excreted also increases. You need to supplement a certain amount of salt to maintain the balance of water and electrolytes. Overly salty foods include pickled radish, salted egg yolks, idle fish, bacon, smoked sausages, etc.

4. Avoid eating sour and astringent foods. During the confinement period, it is not suitable to eat sour and astringent foods to prevent blockage of blood circulation and hinder the discharge of postpartum lochia. This type of food includes lotus seeds, persimmon cakes, dried plums, etc.