What can't you eat during menstruation?

When you have your period, you need to pay special attention to your eating habits. There are some foods that you cannot eat during your period, especially foods that are too salty. If you easily consume this kind of food, it will cause excessive secretion of estrogen, causing you to feel very severe headaches during your period. You also cannot eat some more irritating foods, which is also something you need to pay attention to.

Five dietary taboos

Taboo 1: Eating salty food: Women should remember not to eat salty food before menstruation. Because salty food will increase the body's salt and water storage, before menstruation, the progesterone level will increase, which can easily lead 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.

Taboo 2: Drinking carbonated beverages: Many women who like to drink carbonated beverages will experience fatigue and lack of energy during menstruation, 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 bicarbonate in the soda with gastric juice, reducing the digestive ability and bactericidal effect of gastric acid and affecting appetite.

Taboo 3: Eating spicy food: Do not eat spicy food and chili peppers before menstruation, and eat less fatty meat, animal oil and sweets.

Taboo 4: Eating spicy and cold foods: Spicy and cold foods are irritating and can easily cause pelvic blood vessel constriction, resulting in too little menstrual blood flow or even sudden cessation of menstrual blood flow. In addition, irritating substances such as tobacco and alcohol will also have a certain impact on menstruation. If you do not pay attention to avoid these adverse stimuli, dysmenorrhea or menstrual disorders will occur in the long run.

Taboo 5: Eating fried and greasy food.

Nine menstrual diets

1. Decoction of loofah. 1. Use 30g of loofah, decoct it with water, add rice wine and take it orally to treat low back pain during menstruation. 2. Dry the loofah seeds, boil them in water, add a little brown sugar, and drink it with warm rice wine, once in the morning and once in the evening. Mainly used to treat irregular menstruation. 3. Burn 1 old loofah, grind it into powder, take 9g each time, mix with salt water, can treat excessive menstruation.

2. Take some black fungus, dry it, and grind it into fine powder. Take it with brown sugar for 3-5 days each time to treat irregular menstruation in women.

3. Take 2 rooster combs, season and cook, take 1-2 times a day, 3-5 days a month. Treat irregular menstruation in women.

4. Add 2 pieces of tofu, 50g of mutton, 17g of ginger, add salt to taste, cook and eat. It is mainly used to treat irregular menstruation and spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness.

5. Add 500g of dried celery to two cups of water and boil it into 1 cup. Regular consumption can treat irregular menstrual cycles, which may occur 8 or 9 days in advance or even 1-2 times a month (i.e. early menstruation).

6. Boil 10g of angelica sinensis in water, beat in 2 eggs and add 50g of brown sugar. Take once after each menstruation. It is mainly used to treat irregular menstruation and blood deficiency.

7. Add 30g of longan pulp and 15g of red dates and cook them into soup. Mainly used to treat functional uterine bleeding.

8. Remove the scales and internal organs of crucian carp or carp, wash it, and boil it with warm water to make fish scale glue. Take 30g each time and dissolve it in warm wine and water. Mainly used to treat irregular menstruation.

9. Cook 100g rice and 250g shepherd's purse (90g dry product) into porridge for consumption. Mainly used to treat irregular menstruation.