With the arrival of the baby, the mothers who became new mothers also began to "sit in confinement". Many people think that during this period of time, the diet of pregnant women should be strictly controlled, even the salt used for seasoning can not be eaten. Is this true?
Some netizens believe that 'eating salt during confinement' is not only harmful to the maternal body, but also affects the quality of milk and children's health. However, some netizens said that maternal sweating due to deficiency of body and milk excretion are prone to water shortage and salt loss, which will cause electrolyte imbalance in the body. They can eat light food but can't do without salt.
What food can't you eat in confinement? Notes on confinement
Can pregnant women eat salt during confinement? Does salt really affect milk and children? CCTV's "is it true" column reporter came to Beijing Tongren Hospital's obstetrics and gynecology for an interview. Most pregnant women said they had heard of the saying 'no salt during confinement', but some mothers would eat food with a little salt.
So during the period of confinement, can mothers really not eat salt?
Li Jun, chief gynecologist of Dongzhimen Hospital of Beijing University of traditional Chinese medicine, points out that this view is wrong. Sodium ions contained in salt are very important to human body, and it can play a role in metabolism. If there is no sodium ion, people will have fatigue, shortness of breath, these symptoms.
It seems that parturient women can eat salt during confinement. The amount of salt needed by adults is about 6G per day. The normal amount of salt will be absorbed through the digestive tract and will not cause harm to the human body. But experts also warned that although salt can be eaten, it is necessary to pay attention to foods with high salt content.
1. Allergic people should not eat seafood
Women without seafood allergy can eat seafood during the month, which is conducive to wound healing. However, women with seafood allergy must not eat seafood, because Hisense is not conducive to the wound healing of these people.
2. Don't drink thick soup with high fat
After childbirth, many women always eat nourishing food. However, it should be noted that they should not drink high-fat thick soup, because these thick soup will make fat accumulate in the body and affect the appetite, and it is also very bad for the baby, so do not drink high-fat thick soup. If you must drink soup, you can drink some egg flower soup, fresh fish soup, bean curd soup and vegetable soup.
What food can't you eat in confinement? Notes on confinement
Don't eat too much chocolate
Do not eat too much chocolate during confinement, because chocolate will make women fat, and will affect women's appetite, leading to women's insufficient nutrition supplement, affecting the health of mothers, and indirectly affecting the health of the baby, because chocolate contains a substance called theobromine, which can penetrate into breast milk and can accumulate in the baby's body and damage nerves System and heart and other organs, so that the baby always indigestion, sleep instability, always crying.
Don't drink brown sugar water for a long time
New mothers will need more carbohydrates after giving birth. At this time, drinking more brown sugar water can have a good effect on new mothers and their babies. However, some new mothers drink brown sugar water too long, which will affect their health. Because brown sugar has the function of promoting blood circulation, it may cause new mothers to lose blood continuously, Adverse to uterine recovery, because the new mother postpartum and brown sugar water time should choose in the postpartum 7-10 days is appropriate.
5. Don't eat too many eggs
Many people choose to eat more eggs, but the more eggs they eat, the more eggs they eat. In particular, don't eat eggs in a few hours after childbirth, and the number of eggs to eat during confinement should not be too large. It is OK to keep 3-4 eggs a day.
6. Don't eat spicy, warm and dry food
Spicy, warm and dry food refers to garlic, pepper, pepper, fennel, leek, etc. These foods can make the maternal produce internal heat, which is easy to make the new mothers get angry, such as mouth sores, constipation and hemorrhoids. The aggravation of mother's internal heat will affect the baby through milk, making Baobao also have internal heat.
7. Don't eat raw, cold and greasy food
During confinement, gastrointestinal peristalsis becomes very slow, too greasy food is not easy to digest, so we should try to reduce the intake of these greasy food. In summer, the puerpera may want to eat some food that is easy to produce fluid, such as cold drinks. These raw and cold food is easy to damage the spleen and stomach, which is not conducive to lochia discharge during the period of confinement. Therefore, it is necessary to avoid eating them.