Can women eat grapefruit during menstruation?

As women in modern society pay more and more attention to their physical health, many female friends hope to take some time out from their busy work to do some health-preserving work. But often due to time reasons, they will choose to eat some fruits, and grapefruit has become a favorite fruit for many women. So can women eat grapefruit during menstruation? In response to this question raised by everyone, I would like to invite my friends to discuss it with me in the following time.

Foods that should not be eaten during menstruation:

A. Cold and chilling foods. Foods such as cold drinks, mixed cucumbers, mixed radishes, crabs, snails, pears, bananas, watermelons, grapefruits, and oranges are cool in nature. If consumed before or after menstruation, they will curb blood circulation and cause dysmenorrhea.

B. Sour and astringent food. Such as pickles, green plums, cherries, apples, lemons, etc. Eating these foods can easily cause blood vessels to contract and blood to stagnate, which is not conducive to the smooth flow and discharge of menstrual blood and can cause dysmenorrhea.

C. Spicy food. Such as peppers, garlic, onions, ginger, leeks and other foods. Eating these foods can increase pelvic congestion and worsen dysmenorrhea.

3. Pay attention to mental conditioning, remove psychological barriers, make the mind happy, and let the qi flow smoothly.

No, grapefruit is a cooling food. Women should not eat ice during menstruation. In order to drain the menstrual blood, the blood must be kept in a "warm" state so that it can flow smoothly. Once you eat cold food, the blood will be stimulated by the temperature change, which will cause poor circulation, blood clots to form easily, and cause menstrual pain. In fact, the foods that you should not eat too much during menstruation are not just ice. Some foods with cool properties, such as ice cream, winter melon, eggplant, loofah, cucumber, winter melon, 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 circulation problems. Foods you should eat more during your menstrual period: You should eat more green onions, fungus, peanuts, walnuts, dates, longans, and roses. If you accidentally eat cold food during your menstrual period, or can't help eating ice, you can drink more brown sugar boiled with ginger to balance the blood circulation in your body and promote blood flow. In addition to not consuming ice cream during menstruation, women should pay special attention to keeping warm during menstruation, avoid cold, wading, rain, exposure to the sun, and cold showers. They should also refrain from sexual intercourse, bathing in a tub, and swimming, and keep the vulva, underwear, and sanitary napkins clean. Traditional Chinese medicine is against women eating ice during menstruation, while Western medicine believes that there are no taboos. Zhou Longsheng, attending physician of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yadong Memorial Hospital, pointed 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. But Dr. Zhou said that Western medicine does not exclude any food, even those who are undergoing confinement can be eaten.

I believe that with the above discussion, most of our friends have their own unique insights and more standard answers on whether grapefruit can be eaten during menstruation. Of course, I would like to remind those female friends who are menstruating, because women’s overall physical condition is relatively weak during menstruation, so we need to do a good job of keeping warm and at the same time supplement our bodies with more nutrition.