What do I need to know about my diet after a burn?

  Chinese medicine sometimes talks about not eating spontaneous things, such as seafood, beef and mutton, chicken, duck, fish and shrimp, spicy and stimulating food or alcohol. From the Western medicine point of view, the so-called spontaneous things often refer to foreign proteins such as seafood, which cause allergic reactions in the body after ingestion. If you are not allergic, usually eat seafood, beef and lamb without allergies, you can eat after the burn.  On the other hand drinking alcohol and eating spicy and stimulating food can lead to vasodilation, which may have a negative effect on scar formation after healing. Therefore, burn patients are advised to avoid eating spicy and stimulating foods and not to drink alcohol. As for not eating dark-colored foods such as soy sauce to prevent hyperpigmentation is not scientifically based.  Post-burn hyperpigmentation (deepening of color) and depigmentation (lightening of color and formation of white spots) are mainly related to the depth of the burn and are affected by post-burn ultraviolet (e.g., sunlight) exposure. It is not related to dark-colored foods. The national diet for burn patients is also that one extreme is a big tonic. In fact, the average burn patient, there is no shortage of nutrition to repair the wound, no need to over-supplement.