Can I eat lychees during menstruation?

In the summer season, the most famous fruit can be said to be lychee. In ancient times, Yang Yuhuan even praised lychee for its deliciousness and loved it very much. However, lychee is a relatively humid food, and eating too much of it can easily cause getting a sore throat. So, can women eat lychees during menstruation? What are the disadvantages of eating too much lychees?

Can women eat lychees during menstruation?

You can eat lychees during your menstrual period. Litchi is sweet, sour and warm in nature. It penetrates deeply into the human heart, spleen and liver meridians. It is rich in nutrients and can enhance immunity and replenish energy. It is appropriate to take litchi during menstrual period. You can eat lychees during menstruation. Eating lychees will not have much effect on your menstrual period. However, you don’t need to eat too many lychees, otherwise you will get a sore throat.

What are the benefits of eating lychees during menstruation: promoting appetite. Some women have poor appetite during menstruation, and lychees have a good effect of strengthening the spleen, appetizing and benefiting the spleen. It can not only help nourish the stomach, but also effectively promote appetite. To replenish energy, lychee is rich in glucose and sucrose, with a total sugar content of more than 70%. It is also rich in nutrients such as protein, vitamins, minerals, etc., which have the effect of replenishing energy and improving nutrition. Improve immunity. Women's bodies are relatively weak during menstruation and their resistance is not high. Lychees contain a lot of vitamin C and protein, which can effectively enhance the body's disease resistance and improve immunity. Improve insomnia. During menstruation, you may experience irritability, insomnia, anger, fatigue and other symptoms. Eating lychees can help improve insomnia. Lychees can provide nutritional supplements to the brain and effectively help improve insomnia, memory loss, fatigue and other discomfort symptoms. To replenish blood and qi, the natural gluconic acid contained in lychee has the unique effect of replenishing blood, qi and lungs, and can promote blood circulation. People with weak physical fitness can eat more lychees appropriately, and beautiful women who bleed a lot during menstruation can eat some lychees appropriately, which is also beneficial to the body.

What happens if you eat too much lychee?

1. It is easy to get angry, and one litchi can cause three fires. Litchi belongs to damp-heat nature. Eating too much of it can easily cause indigestion, mouth ulcers, bad breath, dry mouth, and even nosebleeds. People with damp-heat constitution or poor gastrointestinal function should not eat too much. For children, lychees are like other fruits such as mangoes and longans. Children with heavy internal heat are best not to eat them, while normal children should try to avoid eating them. For the elderly, those with constipation should try not to take it.

2. In mild cases, you may get "litchi disease". What is "litchi disease"? Litchi disease is actually hypoglycemia. The clinical symptoms of the patient are dizziness, sweating, pale face, fatigue and palpitations. Some patients will have dry mouth, hunger, abdominal pain and diarrhea. People who eat 2 kg of lychees every day are likely to get "lychee disease", and the disease is more common in children. For people suffering from chronic tonsillitis and tonsillitis, eating more lychees will aggravate the "virtual heat"; lychees have the pharmacological effect of lowering blood sugar, and eating too much can cause hypoglycemia, which may cause dizziness, nausea, fatigue, abdominal pain, diarrhea, pale complexion, etc., or even cause drowsiness, coma, twitching, irregular heartbeat, low blood pressure, and even serious danger to life. The main cause of the disease is eating a lot of lychees on an empty stomach, which causes sudden hypoglycemia, known as "lychee neck", which is more common in children.

3. In severe cases, the patient may fall into a coma or even die. If you take too much lychee at one time and absorb too much glucose, the blood sugar level (blood sugar level refers to the concentration of glucose in the blood) will be much lower than normal, causing hypoglycemia. Without rescue, death can occur within hours. Especially children, should be careful not to eat too much, otherwise it will seriously affect their health.