What to eat after a fracture is also a matter of great concern, some people say that “the shape to complement the shape”, bone soup contains a lot of calcium, drink it to promote the healing of the fracture, is this true? The main component of bone soup is hydroxyapatite, which is very hard and cannot be boiled in boiling water, so the calcium content of bone soup is very, very low. Therefore, if you want to drink bone broth to replenish calcium is not enough, it is better to eat some shrimp skin, or buy some calcium tablets in the pharmacy is more helpful. Is it useful to take calcium tablets after surgery? Yes. It is very important to take calcium supplements in your diet after a fracture, because the deposition of calcium salts during the healing process is very helpful for the bones to heal. In addition to calcium supplementation you should also get sunlight, otherwise the calcium is not absorbed and it is useless to eat how much is finally discharged from inside the feces. In the process of calcium supplementation, 1-25 hydroxyvitamin D3, or ossification triol, is a very important component that can take the calcium we eat into the intestine, absorb it into the bloodstream, and finally complete the deposition in the bones. So active vitamin D is very important for calcium supplementation, how is it produced? There is a kind of cholesterol in the skin, which turns into vitamin D3 in the body under the sunlight, and then the conversion is completed in our liver and kidneys before it finally becomes active vitamin D, which acts in the intestine. Therefore, after fracture must take the patient outside in the sun to promote the production of vitamin D in order to promote the absorption of calcium. Many patients have difficulty moving around after fracture surgery. Will frequent urination and defecation and frequent trips to the bathroom have an effect on fracture healing? There is no relationship between frequent urination and defecation and frequent trips to the bathroom. One of the most important goals of surgical treatment is to enable the patient to move around early. For example, if a patient has a lower extremity fracture, getting out of bed and going to the bathroom will not affect the healing process. Some patients think that water can promote the body’s metabolism, so will drinking more water help the fracture to heal? This question is mainly related to the factors affecting fracture healing. In fact, the healing process of fracture is very complicated and clinically divided into four phases: early after the fracture, a local hematoma is formed, just like blood tofu, a puddle of blood around the fracture, which we call the hematoma phase; after 3-7 days, due to the activation of the internal and external coagulation system, the hematoma at the fracture end coagulates into a blood clot and the hematoma mechanization forms granulation tissue, which becomes the hematoma mechanization phase; when the hematoma is replaced by cells in the body, it is called the bone crust formation phase; and finally the original bone crust is replaced by lamellar bone, which makes a strong bony connection at the fracture site, called the plastic phase. And there is no mention of water in this process. In addition, there are two types of cells inside this process – osteoblasts, osteoclasts – that play a very important role in the fracture healing process. Osteoblasts produce a large number of osteoclasts like a house builder, secrete and synthesize some collagen, matrix, fibers, and absorb calcium and phosphorus into the pores of the fibers for precipitation and crystallization, and finally calcium salts settle on top, and like building a house, the building is stacked layer by layer to form new bone. Osteoclasts eat the old, bad bones and let the new bones grow again. And this process also has nothing to do with water. However, water is also important because it is an important substance in the metabolic process. Normal water consumption is usually enough, and you should drink at least 2,000 ml per day.