How to regulate the diet of fracture patients

  Patients and family members are often confused about the nutritional needs and diet of fracture patients and often have to ask their doctors for advice.  In fact, except for the first few days when the fracture patient may have slight systemic symptoms, most of the time there are no systemic symptoms, so the diet is similar to that of a healthy person, and it is enough to choose a varied and nutritious diet. Pay attention to make the food easy to digest and absorb, and be careful with spicy products (chili pepper, raw onion, mustard, pepper) that have adverse effects on the respiratory and digestive tracts. When the systemic symptoms are obvious, the so-called soft food should be given between normal diet and semi-liquid diet, and the food supplied must contain less dregs, easy to chew and digest, and must be chopped and cooked softly when cooking.  These are the general dietary principles for fracture patients. In order to promote fracture healing faster and better, fracture patients should also take different foods according to the development of their condition in the early, middle and late stages of fracture healing to promote hematoma absorption or bone scab production.  Early stage (1-2 weeks): the injured area is swollen with blood stasis, the meridians are blocked and the qi and blood are obstructed, so the main treatment in this stage is to activate the blood and remove blood stasis and move the qi and dissipate it. According to Chinese medicine, “if the stasis does not go, the bone cannot be born” and “if the stasis goes, the new bone is born”. It can be seen that eliminating swelling and dispersing stasis is the first priority for fracture healing. In principle, the diet should be light, such as vegetables, eggs, soy products, fruits, fish soup, lean meat, etc. Avoid eating spicy, hot, sour and greasy food, especially do not apply fatty and nourishing products, such as bone soup, fatty chicken, stewed fish, etc., otherwise the stagnation of blood stasis will be difficult to dissipate, which will delay the course of the disease, delay the growth of bone scabs and affect the recovery of joint function in the future. At this stage, the dietary treatment can be 10 grams of Panax ginseng, 10 grams of Angelica sinensis and 1 pigeon, stewed and cooked, with meat and soup together, once a day for 7-10 days.  In the middle stage (2-4 weeks): the stasis is partially absorbed, and the treatment in this period is based on harmonizing the camp and relieving pain, dispelling stasis and generating new blood, and connecting bones and tendons. The diet is changed from light to appropriate high nutrition to meet the needs of bone scab growth. Bone broth, chicken with Tian Qi and animal liver can be added to the initial recipes to replenish more vitamin A and D, calcium and protein. Food therapy can be used 10 grams of angelica, 15 grams of bone marrow, 10 grams of sequestra, 250 grams of fresh pork chops or beef ribs, stewed for more than 1 hour, soup and meat together, and used for 2 weeks.  Late stage (more than 5 weeks): After 5 weeks of injury, the bruises and swelling of the fracture part are basically absorbed and scabs have started to grow, this is the late stage of fracture. It is advisable to treat the fracture by tonifying the liver, kidney, qi and blood to promote stronger bone scab production, as well as to relax the tendons and activate the joints adjacent to the fracture part to enable free and flexible movement and restore the previous function. Diet can be released from the taboo, recipes can be accompanied by old hen soup, pig bone soup, sheep bone soup, deer tendon soup, stewed water fish, etc. Those who can drink wine can use Duzhong bone crushed tonic wine, chicken blood vine wine, tiger bone papaya wine, etc. Dietary therapy can be used wolfberry 10 grams, 15 grams of bone crushed tonic, 10 grams of sequelae, 50 grams of coic rice. Decoct the dregs of the bone crushed tonic and sequestra first, then add the remaining 2 flavors to cook the porridge and eat. Take the congee once a day for 7 days. Each course of treatment is 3-5 days apart and can be used for 3-4 courses of treatment.