Dietary contraindications for postpartum rheumatism

  Postpartum rheumatism, also known as “postpartum body pain”, “postpartum paralysis”, “menstrual disease”, its pathogenesis is mostly due to maternal postpartum Qi and blood deficiency, inadvertently feel wind, cold, moisture and other pathogenic evil. The clinical manifestations of postpartum rheumatism are diverse, and the severity of the disease varies. In addition to conventional treatment, patients need to pay more attention to their daily lives and diets, which is beneficial to the recovery of postpartum rheumatism.  The daily diet of postpartum rheumatism patients should conform to the following principles, that is, not only to eat nutritious, but also a reasonable mix, nutritional balance. We know that the cause of postpartum rheumatism is fundamentally in the maternal body deficiency of Qi and blood, can not resist wind, cold, moisture and other disease-causing evil, so postpartum rheumatism patients must eat more easily digestible and nutrient-rich food, such as rice porridge, noodles, steamed buns, eggs, etc.. Chinese medicine believes that medicine and food have the same origin, whether it is rice, millet, or barley, wheat, etc. have the role of warming and nourishing the deficient, benefitting the qi and nourishing the blood. As for eggs, the “Compendium of Materia Medica” records that they can benefit qi and nourish blood, especially the yolk is good for blood. This shows that postpartum rheumatism patients can make rice porridge, noodles, steamed buns, eggs and other such foods as the daily staple food. The main food is determined, the next step is to match some supplementary food, also need to choose some easy to digest and rich in nutrients, with beneficial effect of blood, such as red dates, pig liver, black chicken, cinnamon, brown sugar, etc.. This kind of food does not need a lot of quantity, but can be consumed together with the main food to enhance the effect of benefiting Qi and replenishing blood, such as red dates and millet porridge, pig liver porridge, cinnamon porridge, noodles cooked in black chicken soup, brown sugar eggs, etc. As the above staple foods and supplementary foods have the effect of benefiting qi and nourishing blood, the overall taste is on the warm side, and long-term consumption has the disadvantage of warming dryness and hurting yin, which can easily cause constipation, dryness and other discomforts to the mother, in order to avoid this disadvantage, we can choose some vegetables to eat together, such as baby oilseed rape, carrot, tomato, cucumber, oleander, eggplant, winter melon, green bamboo shoots, etc. In addition, postpartum rheumatism patients can also drink more soup, because the soup is concentrated in the essence of the ingredients, and very easy to be digested and absorbed. The ingredients for soup can be selected from uggs, ribs, carp, pig’s feet and other foods with warming effect, can be combined with red dates, wolfberries, cinnamon, peanuts, angelica, astragalus and so on.  In addition, postpartum rheumatism patients in the daily diet also need to pay attention to some details and taboos, such as summer to avoid eating chilled fruit, winter eating fruit can be cut into pieces, with boiling water over to prevent too cold, you can eat more warm fruits such as grapes, longan, cherries, etc.. Postpartum rheumatism patients should avoid eating some spicy and cold food, because these foods can further deplete the already weak qi and blood, but also easy to breed the body’s cold and damp, aggravating the disease.