[a share from Haimei] the diet of women during menstruation is very important. If they don't eat properly, it is easy to cause dysmenorrhea, anemia, decreased menstruation and other symptoms. Some foods are nutritious, but they are the killers of women's menstruation. The following nine kinds of food, women should not be greedy during menstruation.
1. Fried food.
Many nutritionists call fried food junk food, because it not only contains a high amount of fat, but also is difficult to digest after eating, but also contains a variety of carcinogens. For women in the menstrual period, fried food is a big harmful food. Under the influence of progesterone, menstrual women's sebum secretion increases and their skin is greasy. At the same time, capillary dilation makes their skin extremely sensitive. Eating fried food during the menstrual period increases the burden on the skin, which is prone to acne, folliculitis and other skin problems. Due to the menstrual fat and water metabolism slow down, at this time to eat fried food, fat is also easy to hoard in the body.
2. Strong tea.
During menstruation, women lose a lot of blood, anemia is often accompanied. To improve the symptoms of anemia, it is necessary to supplement various foods containing iron in time. However, the tannic acid contained in the strong tea will produce precipitation after combining with iron, which will affect the absorption of iron, resulting in the body can not supplement iron in time and aggravate the symptoms of anemia.
In addition, strong tea contains high caffeine, can stimulate nerve and cardiovascular, easily lead to dysmenorrhea, prolonged menstruation or excessive bleeding.
3. Watermelon.
Only when a woman's uterine environment is in a 'warm' state can her menstrual blood be drained clean. But watermelon is a kind of cold food, easy to let menstrual blood clot, into congestion after the row can not come out, will cause menstrual pain. In addition, women's constitution is Yin, often eat cold food will lead to the leakage of Yang, resulting in damage to the uterus, serious amenorrhea or menstrual reduction and other phenomena.
4. Soda.
There are a lot of phosphates in steam water, which will react with iron and affect the absorption of iron. Therefore, drinking soda during menstruation will easily lead to menstrual fatigue, fatigue, depression and even dysmenorrhea. In addition to affecting menstruation, soda water contains a lot of sodium bicarbonate. Neutralization with gastric juice will reduce the digestive ability and bactericidal effect of gastric acid, affecting appetite.
5. Chocolate.
Many people think that eating chocolate during menstruation can relieve dysmenorrhea and increase energy for the body, which is a wrong understanding. Chocolate contains catecholamines, which can make women more irritable during menstruation and breast pain.
Chocolate belongs to high sugar sweets, not only can not improve the symptoms of menstrual discomfort, but also cause blood sugar instability, affect the hormone balance in the body, aggravate the symptoms of discomfort.
6, baijiu.
Baijiu containing high concentration alcohol can cause serious injury to women during menstrual period. During the physiological period, the decomposition ability of alcohol enzymes will decrease during the physiological period. In a short time, the intake of Baijiu with high concentration of alcohol will cause a large amount of alcohol in the blood, which will eventually become harmful to the body and damage the liver.
In addition, drinking will accelerate blood circulation, lead to increased menstruation, induce dysmenorrhea.
7. Cold drinks.
Especially in the sultry summer, cool and stimulating cold drinks become the only food for many women to quench thirst and reduce heat. However, whether it is physiological or non physiological period, often drink cold drinks will cause serious damage to the womb of women.
In addition, during the period of menstruation, the pelvic cavity and Yin will be in a state of congestion, drink a lot of cold drinks, the human body will cause vasospasm in the uterus and pelvic cavity after cold stimulation, promote vasoconstriction, cause the reduction of menstrual volume, accompanied by the shortening of menstrual period or even amenorrhea.
8. Pepper, clove, pepper.
The diet during menstruation should be light and nutritious. It is not suitable to eat spicy food with strong irritation. Zanthoxylum bungeanum, clove and pepper belong to stimulating food, which can stimulate vasodilation and easily lead to early menstruation, dysmenorrhea or excessive menstruation.
9. Persimmon
Persimmon contains tannic acid, easy to combine with iron and hinder the body's intake of iron in food. Because women lose a lot of blood during menstruation and need to supplement iron, it is not suitable to eat persimmon.