What can I eat after a caesarean section?

Women who have undergone a caesarean section should pay attention to their diet. It is not enough to just eat a lot of tonic food. They should eat protein-rich foods, and the types of food should be diversified, including coarse grains and fine grains. Spicy foods should not be eaten.

1. The diet should be rich in protein - you should eat more protein than usual, especially animal protein. For example, chicken, fish, lean meat, animal liver, and blood. Beans are also an indispensable delicacy, but there is no need to consume them in excess, as that will increase the burden on the liver and kidneys and be harmful to the body. 95 grams a day is sufficient.

2. Diversify the types of staple foods - eat both coarse grains and fine grains. For example, millet, corn flour, brown rice, and standard flour all contain several times more vitamin C than refined rice and flour.

3. Eat more vegetables and fruits - they can provide rich vitamins and minerals, as well as sufficient dietary fiber to prevent postpartum constipation.

4. Drink more soups - soups are delicious, easy to digest and absorb, and can promote milk secretion. Such as brown sugar water, crucian carp soup, pig's trotter soup, pork ribs soup, etc., but the soup and meat must be eaten together. The drinking time of brown sugar water should not exceed 10 days, because drinking it for too long will increase the amount of blood in the lochia, causing the mother to be in a chronic blood loss process and develop anemia. However, the amount of soup consumed should be moderate to avoid causing breast engorgement in the mother.

5. Do not eat spicy and sour food and eat less sweets - spicy and sour food will stimulate the mother's weak gastrointestinal tract and cause a lot of discomfort; eating too much sweets will not only affect appetite, but also may cause excess calories to be converted into fat, causing obesity.