What can’t you eat if you have uterine fibroids? Don't touch these foods!

After a woman suffers from uterine fibroids, she needs to go to the hospital for a detailed examination and then determine scientific treatment measures, but this is far from enough. Patients need to develop good and healthy living habits in their lives and avoid consuming the following foods.

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.

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

6. Patients with uterine fibroids should not eat longan, red dates, donkey-hide gelatin, and royal jelly. Generally speaking, these things are health products for women that replenish blood and qi, but they are not suitable for patients with uterine fibroids. Since fibroids rely on estrogen to develop, if the estrogen content in the body is too high, it will promote the growth of fibroids, so these foods should be avoided. If nutritional supplements are needed, these ingredients should be removed from the recipe.