Dietary recommendations for patients with comminuted fractures

  Patients with fragmentation fractures should pay attention to eating foods that are easy to digest and absorb, and be careful with spicy products (chili, raw onion, mustard, pepper) that have a negative stimulus to the respiratory and digestive tracts. When the systemic symptoms are obvious, the so-called soft food should be given between the normal diet and semi-liquid diet, and the food supplied must contain less dregs, be easy to chew and digest, and must be chopped and cooked softly, not fried or deep-fried.  In order to promote fracture healing faster and better, fracture patients should also have different foods to promote hematoma absorption or bone scab production according to the development of the disease in the early, middle and late stages of fracture healing.  What to eat for crushing fracture: 1. Early fracture Early fracture should drink more water, it is advisable to eat panax ginseng, hawthorn, allium, shepherd’s purse, leek, crab and other foods that activate blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis, reduce swelling and relieve pain. In the early stage of fracture, the affected joint is still in the period of blood edema, so you should avoid eating sour, spicy, greasy, dry and hot foods such as bone soup, fatty chicken, etc. that are too nourishing to avoid stagnation of blood. The early stage of fracture is usually in 1-2 weeks.  2.Middle fracture The middle fracture can appropriately use high nutritional value food, appropriate calcium, appropriate consumption of bone broth, chicken soup, animal liver, wolfberry, dulcimer and other foods to meet the needs of bone scab. The middle stage of fracture is usually 2-4 weeks. During this period, if the wound still has severe pain or obvious redness and swelling, it is advisable to apply local medicinal wine to reduce inflammation and promote microcirculation and repair of damaged tissues.  3, late fracture For late fracture patients, the diet is recommended because the growth of bone scabs has begun, and patients can simply continue to use food with high nutritional value. The late stage of fracture is usually more than 5 weeks. At this stage, if there is still hidden pain in the affected area, it is advisable to take a local medicinal bath with Chinese herbs daily to eliminate internal stagnation and avoid falling rheumatoid.