What happens if I drink ice water during my period?

Many girls will not eat cold food when they have their period. Although the specific reason is unknown, many girls suffer from lower abdominal pain due to drinking ice water during menstruation. So I won’t try it next time. So, why can’t you eat cold food during your period? Today we will analyze it from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine. We hope that everyone will still eat a healthy diet during menstruation.

What happens if you eat cold food during menstruation?

Traditional Chinese medicine is against women eating ice during menstruation, while Western medicine believes that there are no taboos. Menstrual blood is the shedding of the endometrium, and it is discharged due to the contraction of the uterus. If you eat frozen food, the temperature of your stomach and intestines will drop, and the contraction of the uterus will become worse, making it difficult to discharge menstrual blood, so blood clots are formed. In order to discharge the blood clots, the uterus has to increase the intensity of its contraction, which is why eating ice may cause menstrual pain.

Western medicine does not exclude any food, even women can eat ice during confinement. Although eating ice during menstruation may cause uterine contraction and menstrual pain, these blood clots can be discharged through the body's internal mechanism, so women do not need to worry too much about this. However, if you eat too much ice and experience excessive menstrual pain, you should go to the hospital and the obstetrics and gynecology department to check whether there is any other possible disease.

Note:

In addition to eating less ice, you should also eat less fruits that are cool in nature. Keep warm to avoid catching a cold, keep your underwear clean, and change your sanitary pads.

Foods that cannot be eaten during menstruation

What can’t you eat during menstruation? Menstruation is a special physiological period for women. What can’t you eat during menstruation? For example, tea, coffee, cold drinks, alcohol, etc. should be avoided during menstruation as much as possible. Women should pay attention to these foods that they should not eat during menstruation. Foods that should not be eaten during menstruation include:

1. Tea: Women will lose a lot of iron after menstruation, so they should supplement iron. Tea contains more than 30% tannic acid, which easily combines with iron ions in the intestine to produce precipitation, hindering the absorption of iron ions by the intestinal mucosa; it can cause breast pain, consume more vitamin B stored in the body, and destroy carbohydrate metabolism.

2. Caffeinated beverages: They cause breast pain, anxiety, irritability and mood swings. They also consume vitamin B stored in the body and disrupt carbohydrate metabolism.

3. Alcohol: Alcohol will consume the body's vitamin B and minerals. Excessive drinking will disrupt carbohydrate metabolism and produce excessive estrogen, causing early menstruation and excessive menstrual flow.

4. Cold drinks: People with cold menstrual diseases should avoid drinking them.

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

6. Sichuan pepper, cloves, and pepper: During menstruation, you should eat light, plain, nutritious foods. Avoid eating spicy foods that are highly irritating, so as not to cause early menstruation and excessive menstrual flow.

7. Crab: Women should avoid eating raw, cold foods during menstruation, especially those who suffer from cold dysmenorrhea.

8. Snails: They are very cool in nature and can clear away heat. Avoid eating cold foods such as snails during menstruation.

9. Persimmon: Persimmon contains tannic acid, which easily combines with iron and hinders the body's absorption of iron in food. Since women lose a lot of blood during menstruation and need to supplement iron, they should not eat persimmons.

10. Watermelon: Women during menstruation should avoid eating it.

11. Bamboo shoots: Bamboo shoots are cold in nature, so women should avoid eating them during menstruation.