What are the dietary contraindications for myelodysplastic syndromes?

There are no absolute dietary contraindications for myelodysplastic syndromes, but it is recommended to avoid hard foods, spicy foods and greasy foods. 1. Hard food: patients with myelodysplastic syndromes have thrombocytopenia, which makes bleeding not easy to stop, so try to avoid eating shells, spines or hard food, such as shelled shrimp, shelled crabs, etc., so as not to cause gastrointestinal bleeding and infection. 2. Spicy food: Spicy food is highly irritating and can easily stimulate the gastric mucosa, causing bleeding and other symptoms, which should be avoided by patients with myelodysplastic syndromes. 3. Greasy food: if patients with myelodysplastic syndromes need to undergo chemotherapy, chemotherapy will generally have more serious gastrointestinal reactions, greasy food is not suitable for digestion, easy to aggravate the vomiting and other symptoms. Patients with myelodysplastic syndromes should try to eat a light diet, easy to digest, rich in nutrients, under the guidance of the doctor to maintain a good diet.