”Doctor, what should we eat now? Is there anything we can’t eat?” This is the most common question asked by patients during outpatient clinics. In fact, the dietary regulation of breast diseases is nothing but three principles.
1, a balanced diet, eat something of everything.
2, dialectical diet, what to eat what is lacking.
3, identify the disease diet, eat the food that is good for the disease.
The diet for common breast diseases, such as breast cancer, mastopexy and mastitis, has its own characteristics, so now we will introduce them one by one, so that patients with breast diseases can recover as soon as possible and be healthy and happy through medication and correct diet.
I. Diet for breast cancer
(1) Diet to prevent breast cancer
1. Try to avoid the following foods.
High fat, high calorie and high protein foods
Smoked, fried and baked products
Pickled and moldy foods
Exogenous estrogens (snow clams, royal jelly, estrogenic drugs)
Xanthine: coffee, tea, chocolate, cocoa
2.Recommended cancer prevention foods.
Fish protein
Vitamins A, C, D, E
Carotene, fiber, monosaccharides and polysaccharides
Trace elements
Phytoestrogens (beans and their products)
Among them, it is recommended to eat more items containing vitamins, carotenoids and trace elements selenium and zinc: carrots, potatoes, lentils, pumpkin, garlic, asparagus, celery, spinach, egg yolk, lamb liver, apricots, lemons, wheat germ, vegetable oil, fresh dates, sea buckthorn, kiwi, oranges and oranges, cherries, guava; peppers, cinnamon, strawberries, cucumbers; cabbage, parsley, amaranth, peas, cowpeas, radishes, wolfberries; cabbage eggplant, eggplant, chicken liver, sunflower seeds, etc.; rape, capers, cauliflower, sweet potato, pumpkin, yellow corn, etc.; poultry eggs, mushrooms, onions, tomatoes, etc.; oysters, yellow croaker, eel, kelp, beans, sesame, pecans, etc.
(2) Dietary regimen after breast cancer surgery
After breast cancer surgery, the main purpose is to promote the recovery of intestinal function, wound healing and eliminate fatigue, and the principle is to benefit Qi and nourish blood, and to strengthen the spleen and regulate Qi.
If you have gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, etc. on the day after surgery, it is advisable to eat less and more meals, and eat liquid, light, easily digestible and nutritious food, such as rice soup, broth, fresh juice, etc.
After resuming eating after surgery, protein and vitamin-rich foods such as eggs, milk, fish, fungus, mushrooms, etc. should be added appropriately to improve the immunity of the body and promote wound healing.
Patients who have lost more blood during surgery and are pale and dizzy can supplement iron-rich foods such as animal liver, ribs, jujube and cinnamon meat to improve anemia.
Also, you should eat more vegetables to prevent constipation.
(3) Dietary regimen during chemotherapy for breast cancer
1. How to prevent and relieve the symptoms of digestive tract
The diet during chemotherapy should be rich and varied, pay attention to the color, aroma and taste of the food to enhance appetite; the diet should be soft and easy to digest, with fewer and more meals; patients should start to eat coarse fiber food and fresh vegetables and fruits before chemotherapy, and drink more water.
Nausea and vomiting: it is advisable to eat products to wake up the spleen and lower the stomach, such as hawthorn, lentils, yam, white radish, shiitake mushroom, Buddha’s hand, etc. Sugar cane juice and fresh fruit juice can be taken to supplement nutrition and sugar; fresh ginger juice can help lower the rebellion and stop vomiting.
Oral mucous membrane ulcers: It is advisable to supplement a highly nutritious liquid or semi-liquid diet, such as lotus seed soup, snow fungus soup, soy milk, carp soup, etc. Honey 20ml can be added to 0.1g of crushed vitamin C tablets to be taken. Avoid overheated, overly acidic and stimulating foods.
Constipation: pay attention to diet structure, vegetables, fruits and other coarse fiber food can increase the volume of stool, promote intestinal peristalsis and prevent constipation. Appropriate consumption of honey and other laxative foods.
2, how to prevent bone marrow suppression, raise white blood cells
Increase protein-rich and immunity-boosting foods in food, such as snapper, carp, eggs, milk, soybeans; sea cucumber, aconite, fish oil; mushrooms (shiitake, black fungus, reishi), tomatoes, cinnamon meat, red dates, walnuts, wolfberries, mulberry seeds, kiwifruit, etc.
Appropriate medicinal meals, such as ginseng stewed chicken soup, astragalus turtle soup, aconite jujube porridge, etc. to achieve the effect of benefiting qi and replenishing blood.
Drink more water, more than 2000ml of water a day, or astragalus in water.
(D) Dietary regimen during radiotherapy for breast cancer
During radiotherapy, Yin and fluid are easily depleted, so it is advisable to eat sweet, cool and moist food. For example, almond cream, loquat, pear, plum, lotus root, banana, carrot, soursop, silver fungus, olive, etc.
Second, the mastopathy diet regimen
Mastoproliferative disease is one of the common breast diseases in women, commonly mastopexy nodules, breast cysts, breast fibroadenoma, etc. The principles of dietary therapy are to dredge the liver and Qi, dissolve phlegm and disperse nodules, regulate flushing; control the intake of estrogen.
(A) Dietary contraindications for mastopathy
First of all, we should minimize the consumption of estrogen-containing health products, estrogen-fed animals, anti-seasonal vegetables and fruits (such as ripe tomatoes), and estrogen-rich foods (such as snow clams, royal jelly, placenta, etc.), and menopausal women should avoid long-term and excessive use of estrogen.
Secondly, reduce the consumption of fried foods and animal fats. Fat can be converted into estrogen in the body, which increases the adverse stimulation of breast tissue.
(B) The diet of mastopathy advocates
1, fresh vegetables and fruits have the effect of preventing breast cancer.
2. Soybeans and soy products, which are rich in soy isoflavones, have weak estrogenic activity, making estrogen unable to produce hormonal effects, thus reducing the risk of mastoproliferative disease and breast cancer.
3, kelp contains a large amount of iodine, which can stimulate anterior pituitary luteinizing hormone and promote ovarian follicular luteinization, thus reducing estrogen levels.
4.Fish protein and vitamin D have a protective effect on the breast.
5. The products of highly active lactic acid bacteria and Streptococcus thermophilus in sour milk have the function of interfering with the intestinal and hepatic circulation in human body, which can reduce the absorption of fat and improve the immune function.
(C) cycle diet therapy for mastocytosis
Premenstrual diet regimen notes.
1. Small and frequent meals, along with a low-sugar diet and avoiding a high-calorie diet.
2. avoiding a high-fat diet, especially animal fats, and replacing animal fats with vegetable oils.
3, limit the amount of salt to prevent water retention in the body.
4, increase the intake of fiber, eat more vegetables, beans, whole grains, buckwheat and barley.
5.Increase the intake of soy and soy products, and increase seaweed food.
6, abstain from coffee, tea, chocolate and other caffeine-containing foods.
7, abstain from drinking alcohol, alcohol will aggravate the emotional slump, but also make the headache and fatigue more serious or trigger the urge to eat sweets. Postmenstrual diet regimen notes.
Should be supplemented with protein, minerals and blood-supplementing foods, while avoiding excessive consumption of caffeine-containing beverages and cheese, chocolate, etc.
Recipes for mastopathy
1, soybean and pork ribs soup: raw materials soybean 50 grams, 1O0 grams of pork ribs, 2 dried oysters. Practice boiling soup. Efficacy for all types of mastopathy patients.
2, rose jasmine tea: raw materials jasmine 10 grams, rose 10 grams. Practice brewing tea. Effects de-stress the liver.
3, pork double grass soup: raw materials cat’s claw grass 30 grams, 30 grams of summer grass, lean pork 100 grams, 2 dates. Practice boiling soup. Effects clear heat and detoxify, resolve phlegm and disperse knots.
4, seaweed tofu soup: raw materials seaweed 2 to 3 feet, tofu 1 piece. Practice boiling soup. Efficacy of phlegm and disperse knots, damp.
Three, mastitis diet regimen
Mastitis belongs to the category of canker sores in Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that this disease is mostly caused by liver and stomach heat and milk stagnation, while Western medicine believes that it is an acute inflammation caused by septic bacteria entering the breast. The principle of dietary therapy is to clear the heat in the liver and stomach, detoxify and disperse the nodes.
(A) Stages of mastitis dietary management
The stage of liver and stomach heat (lump stage, the accumulation of milk just formed a lump, not yet pus, with pain as the main symptom)
Dandelion and jujube porridge.
Ingredients: 30g of dandelion, 5 jujubes, 50g of coix seeds.
Directions: Wash the fresh dandelion, cut it finely and set aside. First take the jujube, coix seeds porridge, when cooked, mix in dandelion, and then boil until serving, 2 doses daily.
Effects: Clearing heat, detoxifying and reducing swelling. Suitable for the early stage of mastitis.
Dandelion and soapberry honey drink.
Ingredients: dandelion 120g (or 60g dried), soapberry 20g, honey 10g.
Practice: first dandelion, soapberry spur washed separately, dried or sun-dried, dandelion cut into small pieces, soapberry spur chopped. The same into the casserole, add water soaked for a moment, cooked over high heat, change to medium heat decoction for 30 minutes, filtered with clean gauze to take the juice, put into a container, add honey while warm, mix well that is. Take it in 2 times in the morning and evening.
Effects: Clearing heat and detoxification, reducing swelling and dispersion. Suitable for the early stage of mastitis.
Gypsum and silver flower porridge
Ingredients: 100g of gypsum, 30g of honeysuckle, 15g of orange peel, 30g of golden dendrobium, 100g of round-grained rice.
Directions: Put the 4 medicines into a casserole, add water, bring to a boil, change to a gentle fire and decoct for 30 minutes, take the juice and then add water to decoct, take the juice twice, combine the decoction and cook the porridge in round-grained rice until the rice is rotten and the porridge is ceasefire. Take 1 dose daily for 3 to 5 doses.
Effects: Clearing away heat and fire, detoxifying and eliminating swelling, moving Qi and relieving pain. Suitable for early stage of mastitis, breast swelling, pain, skin, redness, fever, etc.
Pus-forming stage
Licorice Drink
Raw material: 30g of Beehive, 5g of licorice.
Directions: Wash and dry the beehive and licorice separately, dry or sun-dry. Put them into a casserole, add water and soak for a moment, bring to a boil on high heat, then cook for 30 minutes on medium heat, filter the juice through clean gauze. Take 2 times in the morning and evening.
Effects: Clearing heat and detoxifying, and removing pus. It is suitable for mastitis with pus not yet collapsed.
Festering period
Pollen and angelica porridge.
Ingredients: Astragalus membranaceus, smallpox powder 10g each, Angelica sinensis 5g
Directions: Decoct the above 3 medicines with appropriate amount of water for 20 minutes, take the juice and boil the congee with round-grained rice, mix with brown sugar and take. Take twice daily.
Effects: Benefiting Qi, invigorating blood circulation, suitable for mastitis ulceration period.
Healing period after ulceration
Stewed Pigeon with Radix Angelicae Sinensis
Ingredients: 15g angelica, 30g astragalus, 1 pigeon, chicken soup.
Method: Wash and slice angelica and astragalus, put them into a gauze medicine bag and tie the bag tightly; clean the squab, blanch it in a pot of boiling water for a moment, take it out and transfer it to a simmering casserole, add water, put angelica and astragalus into the medicine bag, boil it on high heat, add a little wine, change to low heat and stew for 1 hour, take out the medicine bag, add chopped onion, ginger, and chicken soup, etc., continue to cook it on low heat until the squab is cooked and rotten, and the soup is thick and fragrant.
Efficacy: replenish qi and nourish blood, for mastitis patients with postpartum qi and blood deficiency who have difficulty closing their mouths for a long time after ulceration.
These are the dietary regimen for three common breast diseases, namely breast cancer, mastopathy and mastitis. I hope you can benefit from the article and learn the dietary contraindications for various breast diseases, and I wish you all a speedy recovery!