What should I pay attention to in my diet for tuberculosis?

  The principles of dietary regimen for tuberculosis: supply sufficient calories, supply high quality and sufficient protein, and supplement calcium-containing foods to promote calcification. Provide rich vitamins to help the body recover, reduce the side effects of anti-TB drugs and help the absorption of calcium. Provide appropriate amounts of minerals and water, such as iron, potassium, sodium and water. Pay attention to the diet, patients do not need to abstain from eating, to achieve food diversity, meat and vegetables, should also be color, aroma, taste, to stimulate the patient’s appetite, increase the amount of diet.  While using chemotherapy for TB patients, the diet must meet the requirements of high calories, high protein, rich vitamins and trace elements. This is because tuberculosis patients often have low fever, night sweats, and even hemoptysis, and their bodies are getting thinner and thinner, which consumes a lot of heat energy. According to the treatment principle of Chinese medicine, we should choose a nutritious diet to help eliminate evil. However, because of the weakness of the spleen and stomach and the low digestive and absorption capacity of tuberculosis patients, the choice of diet should be light and not too sweet and fatty and oily. Fish, eggs, dairy products, lean meat, hen, honey, peanuts, lotus seeds, lilies, dates, chestnuts, pears, persimmons, sesame seeds, oranges, green vegetables, winter melon, roots, tomatoes, carrots, radishes, beans, soy products, etc. can be chosen.  According to the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis in Chinese medicine, the disease is considered to be a deficiency of lung yin and deficiency of heat and yin injury. The treatment should be based on nourishing Yin and lowering fire, and spicy and aromatic products should be banned or used with caution because they can help the deficiency heat to flourish and deplete the already depleted fluid of the lung. Therefore, all tuberculosis in a short course of chemotherapy, the diet can be selected to nourish Yin and reduce deficiency heat eel, turtle, turtle, black fish, duck egg, duck, silver fungus, sugar cane, diamond, black fungus, jellyfish skin, yam, soy milk, banana, pear, watermelon and other products. All spicy phlegm-boosting onions, leeks, onions, chili peppers, pepper, ginger, star anise and fried and dry-roasted products should not eat or eat less. Patients with tuberculosis should also pay attention to the method of cooking, generally steam, boiling, stewing, blanching, etc., while frying, deep-frying, explosion, braising, roasting, frying and other methods are not appropriate.