What can't you eat if you have uterine fibroids?

We know that the growth of uterine fibroids mainly depends on the hormones in the female body, so the diet of patients with uterine fibroids plays a very important role in the growth rate of the fibroids. Female friends with uterine fibroids must pay attention to their daily diet, such as some irritating and spicy foods must not be eaten. At the same time, you should not eat supplements containing hormones, and you should not eat foods such as donkey-hide gelatin, longan, mutton, etc.

Foods that should not be eaten by patients with uterine fibroids include :

1. Don’t be greedy for cold food: Women with poor gastrointestinal function should avoid eating raw, cold foods before and during menstruation, such as cold drinks, raw cold dishes, crabs, snails, clam meat, leeches, pears, persimmons, watermelons, bananas, bitter melon, mangosteen, mung beans, cucumbers, water chestnuts, grapefruits, oranges, etc., so as to avoid cold stagnation and blood stasis which may aggravate dysmenorrhea.

2. Don’t eat sour food: Acidic food has astringent effect, which makes the blood stagnant and is not conducive to the smooth flow and discharge of menstrual blood. Therefore, people with dysmenorrhea should try to avoid eating such food during menstruation. Acidic foods include rice vinegar, spicy and sour vegetables, pickles, pomegranates, green plums, bayberries, strawberries, star fruits, cherries, sour dates, mangoes, apricots, plums, lemons, etc.

3. Don’t eat spicy food : Some patients with dysmenorrhea already have heavy menstrual flow. Eating spicy, warm and irritating foods will aggravate pelvic congestion and inflammation, or cause excessive contraction of the uterine muscles, which will aggravate dysmenorrhea. Therefore, patients with dysmenorrhea should try to eat less or no foods such as chili pepper, pepper, garlic, onion, ginger, leek, chicken soup, durian and spicy condiments.

4. Do not eat foods that are hot, coagulant, or contain hormones, such as longan, red dates, donkey-hide gelatin, and royal jelly.

5. Do not eat mutton, shrimp, crab, eel, salted fish, black fish and other foods.