Can I eat hotpot after I finish my confinement period?

The ingredients for hot pot can be said to be ever-changing, and you can add a variety of ingredients according to your mood. Today, there are more and more types of ingredients that can be put into hot pot, and sometimes people even add some non-food things into it because they can enhance the taste. There are actually many taboos when eating hot pot, so the question is, can women eat hot pot after confinement?

You can eat it.

After the confinement period, women can generally resume their normal diet. Of course, they can eat hot pot, but in moderation and try to eat as little as possible. Because the hot pot soup base is very irritating and the hygiene conditions of the ingredients may not meet the standards, it may affect the milk of breastfeeding mothers.

How to eat hot pot better after confinement

1. When eating hot pot, it is best to make it at home. Choose fresh and hygienic ingredients. The soup base should be light. The food should be cooked thoroughly before eating. When cooking hot pot, pay attention to cooking raw and cooked food separately to avoid food poisoning.

2. When eating hot pot, you can prepare an extra pair of chopsticks to avoid using the same pair of chopsticks to pick up raw food and eat it. This will easily bring bacteria on the raw food into the stomach and cause diarrhea.

3. Before eating hot pot, you can drink half a cup of juice first, then eat vegetables, and then meat. In this way, we can rationally utilize the nutrients in food and reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.

What kind of hot pot is not suitable for postpartum women

After the confinement period, it is not advisable to eat hot pot with red oil soup base or Chinese medicine soup base, so as not to irritate the stomach and intestines and cause diarrhea, stomach pain and other discomforts. You should choose light and nutritious soup bases, such as chicken soup, pork rib soup, etc. Pregnant women with oral inflammation, stomach problems, or hemorrhoids should not eat Sichuan hotpot, and those with allergies should not eat seafood hotpot.