What are the precautions and dietary precautions during menstruation?

As we all know, women need to be careful not to have sexual intercourse, do strenuous exercise, sit baths, soak in hot springs, beat their waists, soak in hot springs, etc. during menstruation. So what are the dietary precautions for women during menstruation? Most people don't know much about this. In fact, there are 7 do’s and 5 don’ts in women’s diet during menstruation.

1. 7 Diet Tips During Menstruation

1. Eat foods that are nutritious, invigorating, and easy to digest.

Such as dates, noodles, coix seed porridge, etc. To maintain nutritional balance, fresh vegetables and fruits should be consumed together. Food should be mainly fresh, which is not only delicious and easy to absorb, but also has less nutritional damage.

2. It is advisable to eat bananas

Bananas are rich in vitamin B6, which has a calming effect on the nerves. It can not only stabilize women's anxiety during menstruation, but also help improve sleep and relieve abdominal pain.

3. Eat more fish

Due to the influence of endocrine hormone changes, many women experience menstrual depression. Studies have found that regularly eating fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids, such as salmon and sardines, can help women relieve depression or reduce the incidence of depression. Because these fish are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which have antidepressant effects.

4. Foods that are beneficial to the flow of menstruation

Such as warm tonic foods such as lamb, chicken, red dates, tofu skin, apples, coix seed, milk, brown sugar, and longan.

5. Eat foods high in iron

Iron is not only involved in the synthesis of hemoglobin and many important enzymes, but also plays an important role in immunity, intelligence, aging and energy metabolism. Since more iron is lost during menstruation, it is very important to supplement with iron-rich foods. Fish, lean meat, animal liver, animal blood, etc. are rich in iron and have great biological activity, and are easily absorbed and utilized by the human body; while the plant iron found in soybeans and spinach has a lower absorption rate.

Therefore, during menstruation, you should pay attention to the combination of meat and vegetables in your diet, and eat more animal foods to meet the special needs for iron during menstruation.

6. It is advisable to drink hot milk with honey

Symptoms such as lower abdominal pain, weakness in the waist and knees, physical fatigue, restless sleep and irritability are physical discomforts that women often experience during their menstrual period. Studies have found that if women drink a glass of hot milk with honey before going to bed every night during menstruation, they can reduce or eliminate various discomforts during menstruation.

Because the potassium in milk can soothe emotions, relieve abdominal pain, prevent infection, and reduce menstrual blood volume; the magnesium contained in honey can calm the central nervous system, help eliminate women's tension during menstruation, and reduce psychological stress.

7. It is advisable to supplement protein and minerals

Due to menstrual blood loss, especially menorrhagia, the main components of blood, such as plasma protein, potassium, calcium, and magnesium, will be lost with each menstruation. Therefore, protein and mineral foods should be supplemented within 1-5 days after the menstruation is over. For example, you can choose foods that have both beauty-enhancing and blood-replenishing effects, such as milk, eggs, beef, mutton, pork wrist, water chestnut, carrots, apples, cherries, etc.

Studies have found that some patients with menstrual migraines have extremely low levels of magnesium in their blood. If they pay attention to consuming magnesium-rich foods in their diet, such as millet, buckwheat noodles, beans, bananas, nuts and seafood, they can reduce the incidence of migraines.

2. 5 taboos of diet during menstruation

1. Avoid eating too much sugar

In the past, many people believed that eating sweets could improve menstrual discomfort, so brown sugar, sweet biscuits or chocolate have almost become "regular medicines" for women during menstruation. It is now believed that eating high-sugar sweets will cause blood sugar to rise rapidly, which does have the effect of stabilizing mood. However, once blood sugar drops, it will cause a greater gap and emotions will become unstable.

Deliberately eating sweets during menstruation will not only fail to improve menstrual discomfort symptoms, but may affect the balance of hormones in the body due to unstable blood sugar, aggravate the feeling of discomfort, and even cause dysmenorrhea.

2. Avoid eating raw or cold food

Medicine believes that blood flows when it is hot and stagnates when it is cold. Eating raw and cold food during menstruation can not only hinder digestion, but also easily damage the body's yang energy, leading to internal cold. The coldness will stagnate and cause menstrual blood to flow poorly, resulting in too little menstrual blood, or even dysmenorrhea. Even in the hot summer season, it is not advisable to eat cold drinks during menstruation.

On the contrary, the diet during menstruation should be mainly warm, and foods such as kelp, jujube, sorghum rice, coix seed, mutton, apples, etc. should be selected; eat less cold, slippery foods such as pears, water chestnuts, water chestnuts, winter melon, kale, and hemp seeds.

3. Avoid spicy and sour foods

Women during menstruation feel particularly tired, their digestive function weakened, and their appetite poor. Therefore, they should pay attention to eating light and easy-to-digest foods, and avoid eating overly acidic and irritating foods, such as hawthorn, sauerkraut, vinegar, chili, mustard, pepper, etc.

4. Avoid eating too salty food

If women eat too much salty food before menstruation, the salt and water storage in the body will increase. In addition, the progesterone in the body increases before menstruation, which makes them prone to edema, headaches and other phenomena. If you start eating a low-salt food 10 days before your period, the above symptoms will not occur.

5. Avoid drinking carbonated beverages

Many women who like to drink carbonated beverages will experience fatigue and lack of energy during their menstrual period, which is a sign of iron deficiency. Because soda and other beverages mostly contain phosphates, they react chemically with iron in the body, making it difficult to absorb the iron.

In addition, drinking too much soda will neutralize the sodium bicarbonate in the soda with gastric juice, reducing the digestive ability and bactericidal effect of gastric acid and affecting appetite.