What should be the diet of SLE patients?

  What should be noted in the diet of SLE patients?  1. There is no special contraindication for SLE patients’ diet, which should be light, low in salt, low in fat and high in protein.  2. Certain foods that stimulate immune function, such as celery, mushrooms, figs, smoked food, alfalfa seeds and bean pods, can induce lupus erythematosus and should be avoided as much as possible.  3. Pay attention to low-salt diet and eat more fruits and vegetables rich in potassium such as bananas, apples, oranges and tomatoes. However, patients with renal failure and high blood potassium should not eat the above-mentioned foods with high potassium content, and patients with high blood sugar should also limit staple foods and sweets.  4, some health products for SLE patients are not only not beneficial, but also harmful. For example, ginseng, American ginseng, gynostemma and their compound preparations, because of ginsenosides, can improve the human body’s cellular immune function, but also can improve the human body’s humoral immunity, which does have the effect of strengthening the body and prolonging the life of non-SLE patients, but for SLE patients, because these health products improve the immunoglobulin, so that the immune complex increases, activating the anti-nuclear antibody, which can aggravate or induce SLE. 5. There are some western drugs can often trigger or aggravate the disease, pay attention to avoid using. For example, hydrazinebendazole, benzoin, chlorpromazine, propyl or methylthioxypyrimethamine, gold, D-penicillamine, phenytoin sodium, isoniazid, penicillin, streptomycin, sulfonamides, etc.