What foods are taboo during menstruation?

Generally, normal women will feel uncomfortable for a few days every month. Women should pay attention to regulating their bodies during menstruation. If they do not take proper care of themselves, it will affect their bodies. Especially women’s diet during menstruation is also very important. If they eat incorrectly, it will also affect their bodies. So what foods are taboo for women during menstruation? Now let’s understand it through the following introduction.

1. Avoid raw and cold food, and prefer warm food: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that blood flows when it is hot, and stagnates when it is cold. Eating raw or cold food during menstruation can damage the spleen and stomach and hinder digestion. It can also easily damage the body's yang energy and cause internal cold. Stagnation of cold air can cause blood to stagnate, resulting in too little menstrual blood, or even dysmenorrhea. Even in the hot summer season, it is not advisable to eat ice cream and other cold drinks during menstruation. Warm food is better to promote blood circulation. In winter, you can also eat some foods that have warming and tonic effects, such as beef, chicken, longan, wolfberry, etc.

2. Avoid spicy and sour food, and eat light food: Menstruation can often make people feel very tired, weakened digestive function, and poor appetite. To maintain nutritional needs, the diet should be fresh. During menstruation, the diet should be light and easy to digest. Eat less or no fried, spicy and other irritating foods to avoid affecting digestion and causing excessive menstrual bleeding due to spicy stimulation.

3. Combine meat and vegetables to prevent iron deficiency: Women usually lose about 30 to 50 ml of blood each time during menstruation, and each ml contains 0.5 mg of iron, which means that 15 to 50 mg of iron will be lost during each menstruation. Iron is one of the essential elements for the human body. It not only participates in the synthesis of blood proteins and various important enzymes, but also plays an important role in immunity, intelligence, aging, energy metabolism and other aspects.

Through the above introduction, we know what foods are taboo for women during menstruation. Women must take good care of themselves during menstruation. Not only should they pay attention to their daily diet, but also pay attention to rest. They must not overwork. They must also pay attention to regulating their mood during menstruation and not get angry.