Experts point out that the nutrition of patients with emphysema needs to be absorbed from the diet. The nursing of patients with emphysema is very important, and diet care is also very important. What should be eaten and what should not be eaten, we will have a detailed understanding today.
1、 Proper diet
① Provide adequate protein and iron. The diet should eat more lean meat, animal liver, tofu, soybean milk and so on. These foods are not only rich in high-quality protein and iron, but also have no harm of phlegm and fire. They are good for strengthening the patient's constitution, improving the disease resistance and promoting the repair of damaged tissues.
② Eat more foods containing vitamin A, C and calcium. Food containing vitamin A, such as pig liver, egg yolk, cod liver oil, carrot, leek, pumpkin, apricot, etc.; it has the effect of moistening the lung and protecting the trachea; the food containing vitamin C has the functions of anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer and anti cold, such as jujube, pomelo, tomato, green pepper, etc.; calcium containing food can enhance the anti allergic ability of trachea, such as pig bone, green vegetables, tofu, sesame paste, etc.
It should be noted that dairy products can make sputum thickening, not easy to discharge, thus aggravating infection, so to limit the intake of milk and its products.
2、 Diet taboo
① Avoid irritating food. Avoid eating hot pepper, green onion, garlic, wine and other spicy food, because stimulate the tracheal mucosa, will aggravate cough, asthma, palpitation and other symptoms, induce asthma, so when taboo.
② Avoid eating fishy and greasy food. Fish made by non steaming method are easy to cause fire due to excessive oil consumption. In addition, people with allergic constitution and people with high blood uric acid (such as gout patients) should also eat less oily yellow croaker, hairtail, shrimp, crab and fat meat, so as to avoid fire and phlegm.
③ Avoid eating foods that produce gas. Such as sweet potato, leek and so on, because of its adverse to lung qi, should eat more alkaline food.
④ No smoking. Because smoking is one of the causes of bronchitis, it is very harmful to asthmatic bronchitis and should be prohibited absolutely.