Is there any attention to diet when suffering from psoriasis? Of course there is! Only by giving patients scientific and reasonable dietary care can we significantly reduce their condition and prompt them to recover their health as soon as possible.
The dietary principles of psoriasis patients are mainly high protein and high vitamin, avoiding hard stimulating food intake, as well as quitting smoking and limiting alcohol.
Next, let’s talk specifically about how to correctly “taboo” to avoid recurring psoriasis.
First, the diet of psoriasis patients, to follow 3 principles
1, increase the intake of protein foods, fruits and vegetables
Irrational diet and blind taboos can easily lead to nutritional deficiencies in the patient’s body, coupled with regular and prolonged flaking of the patient’s skin, the patient’s body loses a lot of protein, minerals and vitamins.
Adjustment of dietary structure
If the disease has serious nutritional deficiency, it will also produce malnutrition anemia or hypoproteinemia, which should be supplemented with nutrients in time during the treatment and care process.
Nursing staff should guide patients to eat high-calorie, high-vitamin, high-protein and low-fat, low-cholesterol foods that can be easily digested and absorbed, such as eggs, milk, soy products, fresh fruits and vegetables, to improve the physical quality of patients and enhance their immunity.
2. Quit smoking and alcohol, avoid spicy and seafood
There are relevant reports that surface psoriasis has a great relationship with smoking habits, and the severity of its condition is positively correlated with the amount of smoking.
Alcohol affects the patient’s absorption and metabolism of drugs, and large amounts or excessive alcohol consumption will aggravate the disease.
Stop smoking and drinking
Avoid spicy and other irritating foods because they can cause blood vessel dilation and congestion in the skin, which can directly trigger or aggravate the patient’s condition.
Also eat less beef and mutton, because these foods contain large amounts of arachidonic acid, whose metabolites are involved in inflammatory reactions. At the same time, patients should also be advised to prohibit seafood.
3, avoid the intake of allergic food
Some patients will cause allergies when consuming certain foods, resulting in impaired immunity and often occurring or recurring psoriasis.
Therefore, after such a situation, psoriasis patients should all carefully recall the recent allergenic substances to find out the real trigger for the onset of the disease, so that they can try to avoid contact in the future to prevent relapse.
In addition, foods to which the presence of allergy is uncertain can be identified by food exclusion and food recording methods.
Attention is paid to dietary care interventions, emphasizing not only the need to meet the actual needs of the patient, but also the use of multiple nursing interventions to improve patient compliance.
In dietary interventions, the main focus should be on explanation, and health care workers and family members should communicate and exchange more with patients to understand their dietary mastery and compliance and to make up for it, and also use pictures and videos to deepen patients’ impressions in order to improve the feasibility of dietary interventions.
Second, what other care for psoriasis patients?
Dietary care for psoriasis patients is more important, but it should also be combined with skin care and psychological care, etc., which is more conducive to promoting the recovery of the disease.
1.Psychological care
Nursing staff should correct patients’ bad mentality in time, let patients have a correct understanding of the disease, encourage patients to communicate more and keep a good attitude to accept treatment, so as to promote early recovery.
2.Skin care
Instruct patients to do a good job of personal hygiene, avoid scratching the skin, keep the skin clean for a long time, it is not advisable to wash the skin with too hot hot water, soapy water, salt water, etc., it is advisable to use warm water for washing. In daily life, change underwear regularly, preferably wear soft and loose cotton fabrics, and do not accept irritating items.
3.Reasonable use of medication
According to the doctor’s prescription, use the medication reasonably, conduct regular checkups, do not increase or decrease the amount of medication or even stop medication to prevent the recurrence of the disease. Patients should be followed up to understand the changes in their condition and psychological status dynamically at any time.
4.Social and family support
Make full use of social and family resources, encourage family members and their close friends to learn more about psoriasis, instruct friends and relatives to comfort, encourage and care for patients, give them emotional consideration and understanding, support their treatment spiritually and financially, and give them help and care in all aspects of life.
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