Can my aunt eat hot pot?

In Chongqing, spicy food is the main dish. Chongqing people cannot live without spicy food, so hot pot is the most frequent dish in Chongqing. You can also eat hot pot during your period, but try not to eat spicy hot pot. Dried chili peppers may cause an increase in hormones in women's bodies and increase the risk of dysmenorrhea. Even for people who do not suffer from dysmenorrhea, eating hot pot may cause menstrual disorders.

Hot pot during menstruation is dangerous

For women, menstruation is a very special period. Many ladies know that during this period they must eat a light diet and avoid spicy and irritating foods, but hot pot is not within their "resistance range". In fact, hot pot is more irritating than chili peppers. If you are not aware of this and eat hot pot without restraint during menstruation, it can be very dangerous.

Danger 1: Spicy hot pot aggravates dysmenorrhea

It is reported that some patients with dysmenorrhea suffer from damp-heat accumulation in the uterus. If such patients eat spicy or hot foods, it will aggravate pelvic congestion and inflammation, or cause excessive contraction of the uterine muscles, thereby aggravating dysmenorrhea.

One of the most popular types of hot pot is spicy hot pot, which has a soup base containing pepper, chili, garlic, onion and ginger. Even if women do not drink the soup during their menstrual period, just eating the hot pot ingredients with such a soup base can cause menstrual diseases such as dysmenorrhea and excessive menstrual bleeding.

Danger 2: Eating seafood can cause menstrual irregularities

It is forbidden to eat raw or cold food during menstruation. Although hot pot is not considered raw or cold food, the processing method of many foods is just to blanch them briefly, which cannot guarantee that they are absolutely cooked. Especially for seafood hot pot ingredients, fatty beef slices, fatty lamb slices, etc., many people think that they are most delicious when they are half-cooked. This way of eating can easily lead to irregular menstruation and abnormal leucorrhea in women.

Experts remind that during menstruation, one should follow the principle of balanced diet and provide a reasonable diet combined with the special physiological needs of menstruation. However, for female friends who love to eat hot pot, it is not easy to really "avoid certain foods". In fact, as long as you change the way of eating, such as eating clear soup base and adding more fresh vegetables and animal blood as side dishes, you can not only satisfy the joy of eating hot pot, but also replenish the body with nutrients needed during menstruation.