What do women eat during menstruation? Women must pay attention to strengthen diet and nutrition when they come to their holidays, and eat more foods rich in protein, vitamins and iron, which can be more conducive to health. What should women eat during menstruation? Let's have a look
What to eat during menstruation
1. Before menstruation: supplement the nutrients needed by physiology through diet: B vitamins, as well as vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin E.
(1) Foods rich in B vitamins: wheat germ, pork, soybean, peanut, ham, black rice, animal liver, laver, kelp, milk, Cereals, bananas, walnuts, etc.
(2) Foods rich in vitamin A: animal liver, milk and dairy products, eggs, carrots, broccoli, spinach, lettuce, oranges, apricots, sweet potatoes, etc.
(3) Foods rich in vitamin C: leek, persimmon pepper, celery, cauliflower, tomato, spinach, cabbage, potato, Dutch bean, orange, orange, grapefruit, grape, strawberry, etc.
(4) Foods rich in vitamin E: wheat germ oil, corn oil, peanut oil, sesame oil, walnuts, melon seeds, kiwi fruit, soybeans, spinach, rape, corn, nuts, etc.
2. Menstruation: you can appropriately supplement some warm food or slow menstruation and pain relief food.
(1) Warm body food: women with cold constitution can eat more dog meat, mutton, chestnuts, litchi, brown sugar and ginger.
(2) Food for relieving dysmenorrhea: women with dysmenorrhea can eat more spinach, celery, coriander, yam, carrot, grape, kelp, black fungus and other food for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis and relieving dysmenorrhea.
(3) Others: if menstruation is accompanied by poor appetite, low back pain and other symptoms, diet should choose nutritious, spleen invigorating, appetizing and digestible foods, such as jujube, Huaishan, noodles, coix seed porridge, etc.
3. After menstruation: after menstruation, especially those with excessive menstruation, they can appropriately supplement protein, iron and minerals within 1-5 days after menstruation.
(1) Foods rich in protein and minerals: mainly including beans (including soybeans, black beans, etc.), milk (including milk, goat milk, etc.), seafood, animal viscera, meat (including pork, beef, mutton, etc.), rice, etc.
(2) Foods with high iron content: fish, lean meat, animal liver, animal blood, soybean, spinach and other foods are rich in iron and have great biological activity, which are easy to be absorbed and utilized by the human body.