Dietary considerations for patients with anemia

  1. The regulation of diet is especially important for nutritional anemia. Nutritional anemia is most common in infants and young children. You should add complementary foods on time and pay attention to hygiene to avoid parasitic infections. During the developmental stage of adolescents, especially some young girls who diet and lose weight for slimness and drink too much tea, the incidence of iron-deficiency anemia is higher, so they should eat more iron-rich foods such as animal liver, lean meat, blood products, black fungus and red dates. Drink less tea. Megaloblastic anemia is often deficient in folic acid and vitamin B12, and is more common in the elderly. Fresh green vegetables are rich in folic acid, which is easily destroyed by excessive processing. Vitamin B12 is mainly from animal food, such as meat, liver and kidney, and there is also a small amount of vitamin B12 in egg yolk and cow’s milk, which can be consumed in small amounts.  2.If you have iron deficiency anemia, you should first pay attention to your diet and take a balanced intake of iron-rich foods such as liver, egg yolk and cereals. If the iron intake in the diet is insufficient or iron deficiency is severe, iron supplements should be taken immediately. Vitamin C can help the absorption of iron, but also to help produce hemoglobin, so the intake of vitamin C should also be sufficient. Secondly, eat a variety of fresh vegetables. Many vegetables are rich in iron. Such as black fungus, purple cabbage, hairy vegetables, capers, black sesame, black beans, lotus root powder, etc.  3, drinking tea and coffee is to refresh, but also to ingest some healthful substances. However, for women, excessive addiction to coffee and tea, may lead to iron deficiency anemia. This is because the tannic acid in tea and polyphenols in coffee can form insoluble salts with iron, inhibiting iron absorption. Especially after meals drinking strong tea is more harmful. Because the body’s essential iron, vitamins and other substances are usually taken in the daily diet, after a full meal, food is still in the stomach, at this time to drink strong tea, tannic acid is more likely to combine with iron, preventing the absorption of iron. For people who already suffer from iron deficiency anemia, should drink less strong tea and coffee. One or two cups a day is enough.  4, for aplastic anemia, because at the same time accompanied by thrombocytopenia, to eat according to medical advice: avoid spicy and stimulating food (raw onion, ginger, garlic, chili, etc.), seafood, mutton, dog meat and other hot food, avoid smoking and alcohol, avoid cold and greasy; give high protein, high vitamin, easy to digest food, such as lean meat, eggs, dairy, chicken, pork ribs soup, animal liver, fresh vegetables and fruits, eat more dates, Gui Yuan The treatment principle of traditional Chinese medicine is to give a semi-liquid diet without residue to those who have a tendency to bleed, and to eat less food with spines and bones to prevent bleeding and infection caused by the spines.  5.Treatment principle of Chinese medicine: remove the cause of the disease, deficiency deficiency, through improving diet and strengthening the spleen and stomach, benefitting qi and nourishing blood, tonifying the kidney and producing marrow, etc. to achieve the purpose of correcting anemia. For weakness of the spleen and stomach, commonly used formulas: Sijunzi Tang, Lijunzi Tang, etc. Commonly used: Radix Codonopsis, Radix Ginseng, Atractylodes Macrocephala, Poria, Rhizoma Polygonati, Semen Coicis, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, Radix et Rhizoma Angelicae Sinensis, etc. Commonly used formulas for liver and kidney yin deficiency are Qiju Dihuang Wan and Da Cuscuta Si Zi Drink. Commonly used for rehmannia, shamrock, yam, poria, danpi, zedoary, angelica, wolfberry, chrysanthemum, maidenhair, schisandra, dried lotus seed, cuscuta, mulberry, heshouwu, turtle board gum, etc. Commonly used formula for kidney yin and yang deficiency: Zuo Gui Drink or Right Gui Drink plus or minus. Commonly used: Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Rehmanniae, Rhizoma Polygonati, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, Semen Cuscutae, Rhizoma Cistanche, Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati, Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati, Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati, Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati, Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati, Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati.