Can I eat watermelon during menstruation in summer?

Watermelon is one of the most common fruits we eat in our daily life. Eating fruit has many benefits to the human body. Melon can quench thirst. In addition, melon contains many nutrients that are beneficial to health. It can be said that eating some melon in moderation is also good for the human body. As for women, they should be very careful about their diet during menstruation, because accidentally eating the wrong food will aggravate the discomfort during menstruation. So should women eat fruit during their menstrual period? What are the taboos about eating fruits in summer? Next, I will introduce them one by one for your reference.

Should I eat fruit during my period?

It is best not to eat or eat less fruit during menstruation. Female friends should avoid eating raw and cold foods during menstruation, and melon is a typical cold food. Although melon contains a lot of water, a variety of amino acids and sugars, and has the effect of clearing away heat, relieving fire, and quenching thirst, melon is cold and slippery in nature, and is also known as "cold melon". Even ordinary people should not eat too much, and women during menstruation should be more cautious when eating it.

Women who eat raw and cold food during menstruation can not only hinder digestion and absorption, but also easily damage the body's qi and blood, causing internal coldness. The cold and stagnation can make the menstruation flow irregular, leading to scanty menstruation, and even menstrual pain. Therefore, it is definitely not advisable for those who choose to lose weight by eating fruits during menstruation. It is worth mentioning that experts also recommend that it is best not to eat cold food during menstruation!

If female friends eat raw and cold melon during menstruation, the blood will be stimulated by the temperature change, which will reduce the blood circulation and easily cause blood clots, resulting in menstrual pain.

During the menstrual period, you should eat light and nutritious foods. It is not suitable to eat irritating foods, smoke or drink, so as to prevent the irritation of capillaries from dilating, causing early menstruation and excessive menstrual flow. You should eat fresh, easily digestible food, and avoid raw, cold, and indigestible food. Fried foods are also a big taboo for mature women. Due to the influence of luteinizing hormone secreted by proteasome, the secretion of sebaceous glands in women during menstruation increases, the skin feels greasy, the capillaries dilate, and the skin becomes more sensitive.

7 taboos of eating fruits in summer

1. Don’t eat melons that have been opened for too long.

The temperature is high, and melons opened for too long are prone to mold and breeding of pathogens, which can cause intestinal infections if eaten. Therefore, when eating fruit, you should pay attention to choosing perfect and fresh melons.

2. People with renal insufficiency do not need to eat

Eating a lot of fruits in a short period of time will increase the body's water content and exceed the body's physiological capacity. And those with renal insufficiency have a significantly reduced ability of their kidneys to regulate water. They cannot regulate and excrete excessive water that enters the body, causing a significant increase in blood flow, and are prone to death from acute heart failure.

3. People with oral ulcers do not need to eat

According to Chinese medicine, the main cause of oral ulcers is yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, which causes virtual heat to disturb the body and burn multiple organs. Muskmelon has a diuretic effect. If people with oral ulcers eat more fruits, some of the normal water needed by the body will be excreted through the diuretic effect of melon, which will aggravate the condition of yin deficiency. Kidney yin deficiency will increase internal fire and aggravate oral ulcers.

4. You don’t need to eat fruit in the early stages of a cold

You don't need to eat fruit in the early stages of a cold, otherwise it will aggravate the fever and cold or increase the time to recover. Whether it is a wind-cold cold or a wind-heat cold, its early stage belongs to the external symptoms, and the dispersing method of eliminating the pathogenic factors from the surface should be used to treat it. Chinese medicine believes that if the exterior cannot be treated, the interior cannot be attacked, otherwise the exterior evil will enter the interior and the condition will worsen. In the early stages of a cold, when the pathogens are on the surface, eating fruit is equivalent to taking medicine to clear internal heat, which will draw the pathogens into the interior, aggravating the fever and cold or increasing the time to recovery. However, when the fever and cold worsen and symptoms such as high fever, dry mouth, sore throat, yellow and red urine appear, you can eat some melon while taking normal medicine, which is conducive to the cure of the fever and cold.

5. Eat less cold watermelon

Although eating ice watermelon in hot weather is very effective in cooling down the body, it is very irritating to the stomach and can easily cause gastrointestinal damage, so you should pay attention to the temperature and amount of food. It is best to put the melon on the bottom layer of the refrigerator, where the temperature is about 8-10℃, and the taste is best at this temperature. The amount to be eaten each time should not exceed 500 grams, and eat slowly. People with caries (tooth decay) and tooth allergies who feel sour and painful after being cold, as well as those with poor stomach are not suitable to eat cold watermelon.

6. Pregnant women should not eat too much melon

Pregnant women have a relatively weak physical constitution, and Chinese medicine believes that eating too much fruit will cause excessive coldness and damage the stomach and intestines. It is not suitable to eat before or after meals because the large amount of water in melon will dilute the digestive enzymes in the stomach. Eating it before or after meals will affect the digestion of food. In addition, eating a lot of melon before meals will occupy the capacity of the stomach, which will greatly affect the various nutrients absorbed during the meal, especially for children, pregnant women and nursing mothers. And for those who want to lose weight by fasting, eating some melon before meals is a good way to reduce food intake.

7. Diabetic patients need to eat fruits in moderation

Muskmelon contains about 5% glycogen, and it is mainly glucose, granulated sugar and some glucose. In other words, eating the fruit will increase blood sugar levels. Normal people can maintain blood sugar and urine sugar at normal levels because they can metabolize insulin glargine in time. However, it is different for diabetic patients. If they eat too much melon in a short period of time, not only will their blood sugar level rise, but those with severe conditions may also suffer from metabolic acidosis due to metabolic disorders, and even seriously endanger their lives. The amount of carbohydrates (glycogen) that diabetic patients eat every day needs to be strictly controlled. Therefore, if you eat melon several times a day, you should reduce the amount of meals and foods (carbohydrates) accordingly to avoid aggravating the condition. If you eat 25-50 grams of melon at a time, it will not have much effect on diabetic patients, so diabetic patients should pay attention to moderation when eating fruit.