What to eat for optimal recovery after a fracture

Diet, as a complementary treatment after fracture, needs to pay attention to the principle of lightness in the early stage of fracture, harmony in the middle stage, and tonic in the late stage, and the choice of appropriate food has a positive effect on the promotion of fracture healing. After fracture, we should follow the time cycle of bone healing to develop diet, specific dietary principles are as follows: 1. 1~2 weeks after fracture: at this time, the fracture site is bruised, coupled with the pain of the fracture site, appetite and gastrointestinal function have decreased. Dietary principles to light mainly, such as fruits and vegetables, eggs, soy products, fish soup, lean meat juice, etc., avoid eating hot and sour, hot and dry, greasy, especially not to prematurely give the fat and tonic products. 2. Fracture 3~4 weeks: Fracture recovery in the middle, most of the bruises are absorbed, the treatment should be and to and camp pain, remove blood stasis to generate new, bone and tendon mainly. Dietary principles from light to appropriate high nutritional supplements to meet the needs of the growth of bone scabs, such as bone broth and animal liver and so on in the initial recipe, but also appropriate to eat some of the vitamin-rich vegetables such as tomatoes. 3. Fracture more than 5 weeks: the fracture site bruises are basically absorbed, and the bone scab begins to grow. At this time, the treatment should be complementary, through tonifying the liver and kidney, qi and blood, in order to promote the formation of a solid bone scab; can also be added under the guidance of the doctor to the basic exercise, relaxing the tendons and activating the muscles and muscles (stretching the tendons and bones and dredging the meridians and collaterals), and moving the adjacent joints, in order to promote the recovery of normal function. In principle, diet can be lifted from the taboos, and then with old hen soup, pork bone soup, etc.. Although diet has a certain positive effect on the recovery of fracture, but it can not replace the medication and other treatments, fracture patients must be regularly reviewed and actively cooperate with the doctor’s treatment.