Can women eat pears during menstruation?

Many women wonder whether they can eat some cool fruits during menstruation, such as pears. In fact, pears have a good effect of relieving cough and reducing phlegm. For women during menstruation, they can eat some pears appropriately, but not too much.

1. You can eat pears during menstruation, but not too many, because pears are cold food. It is not advisable to eat too many cold foods during menstruation, as it will cause menstrual pain. Avoid cold and chilled foods during menstruation. People who are used to drinking cold boiled water are generally not easily affected by eating fruits and cold foods during menstruation. However, due to different physical conditions and eating habits, those who are not used to eating raw and cold food may not be able to adapt to eating raw and cold food during menstruation and may experience nausea, abdominal pain and other reactions, which should be avoided.

2. Foods that should not be eaten during menstruation

Experts point out that it is not just ice that can be eaten. Some foods with a cool nature can

For example, ice cream, winter melon, eggplant, loofah, cucumber, wax gourd, crab, snail, kelp, bamboo shoots, orange, pear, grapefruit, watermelon, etc., and sour foods, such as sour plums, unripe sour fruits, or some spicy foods, such as fried foods, chili, pepper, mustard, etc., should also be avoided during menstruation to avoid blood flow problems.

3. Foods you should eat more during menstruation

During menstruation, you should eat more green onion, fungus, peanuts, walnuts, dates, longan and rose. Experts say that if you accidentally eat cold food during your menstrual period, or can't help eating ice, you can drink more brown sugar boiled ginger to balance the blood circulation in your body and promote blood flow.

Traditional Chinese medicine is against women eating ice during menstruation, while Western medicine believes that there are no taboos. Experts point out that menstrual blood is the shedding of the endometrium, which is discharged through the contraction of the uterus. When eating ice, the temperature of the stomach and intestines drops, which affects the contraction of the uterus and makes it more difficult to discharge menstrual blood, thus forming blood clots. In order to discharge the blood clots, the uterus has to increase the force of its contraction. This is why eating ice may cause menstrual pain.