How do fracture patients eat?

       Patients with fractures often have a lot of considerations in terms of diet, now briefly: except for the first few days may be accompanied by mild systemic symptoms, the rest of the time most of the patients do not have systemic symptoms, so the daily diet is similar to the general healthy people, the choice of a variety of a variety of nutritious diet can be. Pay attention to making food easy to digest and absorb, and be careful with spicy products (chili pepper, raw onion, mustard, pepper) that have adverse effects on the respiratory and digestive tracts. When the systemic symptoms are obvious, the so-called soft food should be given between 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 when cooking.  These are the general dietary principles for fracture patients. In order to promote fracture healing faster and better, fracture patients should also take 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.  Early stage (1-2 weeks): The injured area is swollen with blood stasis, the meridians are blocked, and the qi and blood are blocked, so the main treatment in this stage is to activate blood circulation, remove blood stasis, and move the qi and dissipate. According to Chinese medicine, “if the stasis does not go away, the bone cannot be born” and “if the stasis goes away, the new bone is born”. It can be seen that eliminating swelling and dispersing stasis is the first priority for fracture healing. In principle, the diet should be light, such as vegetables, eggs, soy products, fruits, fish soup, lean meat, etc. Avoid eating spicy, hot, sour and greasy food, especially do not apply fatty and nourishing products, such as bone soup, fatty chicken, stewed fish, etc., otherwise the stagnation of blood stasis will be difficult to dissipate, which will delay the course of the disease and delay the growth of bone scabs. At this stage, the dietary therapy can be 10 grams of Panax ginseng, 10 grams of Angelica sinensis, 1 pigeon, stewed and cooked, soup and meat together, once a day for 7-10 days.  In the middle stage (2-4 weeks): the stasis is partially absorbed, the treatment in this period is based on harmonizing the camp and relieving pain, dispelling the stasis and creating new ones, and joining the bones and tendons. Diet is changed from light to appropriate high nutrition supplement to meet the needs of bone scab growth. Bone broth, chicken with Tian Qi, animal liver and so on can be added to the initial recipes to supplement more vitamin A, D, calcium and protein. Food therapy can be used with 10 grams of angelica, 15 grams of bone marrow, 10 grams of sequestra, 250 grams of fresh pork chops or beef ribs, stewed for more than 1 hour, soup and meat together, for 2 weeks.  Late stage (more than 5 weeks): After 5 weeks of injury, the bone scabs have started to grow and the swelling is basically absorbed. It is advisable to treat the fracture by tonifying the liver, kidney, qi and blood to promote the production of stronger bone scabs, as well as to relax the tendons and activate the joints adjacent to the fracture so that they can move freely and flexibly and regain their former functions. Diet can be released from the taboo, recipes can be accompanied by old hen soup, pig bone soup, sheep bone soup, deer tendon soup, stewed water fish, etc. Those who can drink wine can use Duzhong bone crushed tonic wine, chicken blood vine wine, tiger bone papaya wine, etc. Dietary therapy can be used wolfberry 10 grams, 15 grams of bone crushed tonic, 10 grams of sequelae, 50 grams of coic rice. Decoct the dregs of the bone crushed tonic and sequestra first, then add the remaining 2 flavors to cook the porridge and eat. Take the congee once a day for 7 days. Each 1 course of treatment interval 3-5 days, available for 3-4 courses of treatment.  The first is to avoid blindly supplementing calcium. Calcium is an important raw material for bones, and some people think that more calcium can accelerate the healing of broken bones after a fracture. But scientific research has found that too much calcium intake does not accelerate the healing of broken bones, for patients with fractures, if the body does not lack calcium, as long as the condition and according to the doctor’s orders appropriate calcium supplementation, strengthen functional exercise and early activity, can promote the absorption and utilization of calcium bone, accelerate the healing of broken bones.  Some people think that eating more meat and bones after fracture can make the fracture heal early. In fact, modern medicine has proven many times that eating meat and bones for fracture patients will not only fail to heal early, but also delay the fracture healing time. The reason for this is that the regeneration of bone after injury mainly depends on the role of periosteum and bone marrow, which can only function better under the condition of increasing collagen, while the ingredients of meat and bones are mainly phosphorus and calcium. If a large amount is ingested after a fracture, it will contribute to the increase of inorganic components in the bone, resulting in an imbalance in the ratio of organic matter in the bone, so it will have a hindering effect on the early healing of the fracture. But fresh meat and bone soup tastes delicious and stimulates appetite, so it’s okay to eat in moderation.  3, avoid partial food Fracture patients, often accompanied by local edema, congestion, bleeding, muscle tissue damage, the body itself has the ability to resist repair, and the body repair tissue, bone growth, bone scab formation, stasis and swelling of the raw material is to rely on a variety of nutrients, it is clear that the key to ensure the smooth healing of fractures is nutrition.  4. Avoid indigestible things Fracture patients are restricted in their activities due to fixed casts or splints, coupled with the swelling and pain of the injury, mental anxiety, so appetite is often poor, and sometimes constipation. Therefore, the food should be nutritious, but also easy to digest and laxative, avoid eating yams, taro, glutinous rice and other easily flatulent or indigestible food, it is appropriate to eat more fruits and vegetables.  5, do not drink less water bedridden fracture patients, especially patients with spinal, pelvic and lower limb fractures, action is very inconvenient, so try to drink less water to reduce the number of urination, so although the number of urination is reduced, but the greater trouble has arisen. If bedridden activities, intestinal peristalsis is weakened, coupled with reduced water intake, it is easy to cause constipation. Long-term bed rest, urine retention, but also easy to induce urinary stones and urinary tract infections. Therefore, bedridden fracture patients want to drink water, do not have to worry a lot.  6, avoid over-eating white sugar A large intake of white sugar will cause the rapid metabolism of glucose, which produces intermediate substances of metabolism, such as pyruvate, lactic acid, etc., so that the body is in an acidic state of intoxication. At this time, alkaline calcium, magnesium, sodium plasma, will be immediately mobilized to participate in the neutralization effect, in order to prevent the blood acidic. Such a large consumption of calcium will be detrimental to the recovery of fractures. Also, too much sugar reduces the amount of vitamin B1 in the body, which is necessary for the conversion of sugar into energy in the body. Insufficient vitamin B1 greatly reduces the activity of nerves and muscles, and also affects the recovery of functions. Therefore, fracture patients should not consume too much white sugar.  7. Do not take Panax ginseng tablets for a long period of time At the early stage of fracture, local internal bleeding occurs, blood stagnation, swelling and pain, at this time, taking Panax ginseng tablets can constrict local blood vessels, shorten clotting time and increase thrombin, which is very appropriate. However, one week after the fracture is repaired, the bleeding has stopped and the damaged tissues start to repair, and the repair must have a large amount of blood supply.