We all know that when you get sick, you need to avoid eating, and eating Chinese medicine is also about avoiding eating, avoiding eating is a feature of Chinese medicine. For example, hot foods such as onion, garlic and pepper should not be consumed when clearing internal heat, and cold foods should be forbidden when treating “cold symptoms”.
So, do you need to avoid taking western medicine? In fact, when taking western medicine, you should also pay attention to avoid eating, otherwise, it will bring adverse effects to health and even endanger life. Diet involves eating time, food ingredients, etc. may affect the efficacy of drugs through different links, and may even cause toxic reactions. As the saying goes, “If you don’t take medicine, you’ll be busy with the doctor’s hand.”
The following is a discussion of the effects of common dietary habits on medications and the foods that are contraindicated for various types of patients treated with medications in our psychiatric department.
Which drugs are affected by smoke
Smoke from any medication
You should not smoke within 30 minutes of taking any medication. This is because nicotine speeds up the rate at which the liver degrades the drug, resulting in insufficient concentration of the drug in the blood to make full use of its effects.
Smoking can reduce the concentration of psychotherapeutic drugs: amitriptyline, doxepin and chlorpromazine, diazepam (Valium), clonidine, Librium, nitro Valium, luminal, clozapine, olanzapine in the blood, thus reducing the efficacy of psychotherapeutic drugs.
Analgesic narcotics: smoking not only affects the effect of such drugs, reducing the analgesic effect, but also leads to drug accumulation poisoning because the drug can not be excreted in time.
It is necessary to avoid smoking when taking central stimulants such as caffeine, because the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in tobacco oil can accelerate the metabolism and inactivation of these drugs, which can weaken or counteract the efficacy of the drug.
Alcohol consumption
Long-term heavy drinking can cause varying degrees of damage to liver function and even trigger drug toxicity. Alcohol can increase the inhibitory effect of hypnotic drugs such as Valium on the central nervous system.
Drinking alcohol when taking drugs such as dormant (chlorpromazine), Valium, phenobarbital (luminal), etc. can significantly increase the central inhibitory effect, causing severe respiratory depression and even death by poisoning; drinking alcohol during taking antidepressants such as promethazine, doxepin, amitriptyline, etc. can produce a sedative effect and reduce the effectiveness of the drug, and can also weaken the peristalsis of the small intestine, or even intestinal paralysis.
Drinking tea
Drugs that can not be served with tea: antidepressants, sedative-hypnotic drugs, etc., served with tea will make brain cells overexcited, serious insomnia, nervousness, allergies and other side effects.
Grapefruit
Grapefruit, also known as grapefruit, grapefruit has been shown to interact with many drugs, which may affect the efficacy and increase adverse reactions. Grapefruit contains the function of inhibiting the degradation of drugs by liver enzymes, which leads to an increase in the concentration of drugs in the blood, which is equivalent to patients taking more drugs It is recommended that people should avoid drinking grapefruit juice when taking such drugs and do not eat grapefruit.
Foods that cause insomnia;
A, caffeine: many people know that foods containing caffeine will stimulate the nervous system, but also has a certain diuretic effect, is a common cause of insomnia.
Second, there is a satiating effect of food: there are also some foods in the digestion (digestive food) process will produce more gas, which produces a sense of bloating, preventing normal sleep, such as beans, cabbage, onions, corn, bananas, etc..
Third, greasy food: greasy food will increase the workload of the intestines, stomach, liver, gallbladder and pancreas after eating, stimulating the nerve center, so that it has been in a state of work, which can also lead to insomnia.
Fourth, spicy food: in fact, in addition to this, dinner eating spicy food is also an important reason to affect sleep. Chili, garlic (garlic food), onions, etc. can cause a burning sensation in the stomach and indigestion, which in turn affects sleep.
Five, alcohol: drinking alcohol before bedtime was once thought by many to promote sleep, but recent studies have proved that although it can make people fall asleep quickly, but let the sleep conditions have been stuck in the light sleep period, it is difficult to enter the deep sleep period. Therefore, people who drink alcohol will still wake up feeling tired even if they sleep for a long time.
Patients with insomnia usually take Valium drugs before going to bed, and if these patients drink alcohol at dinner, they can experience temporary amnesia after waking up the next day. This is where alcohol and Valium drugs come into play. Alcohol and drugs may provide temporary relief, but the tension comes back the next day, and the substances themselves are crippling to health. Therefore, you should learn how to adapt, rather than just rely on escape. When the body and mind are facing the persecution of tension and anxiety, it is important to eat properly. In addition to avoiding caffeine and alcohol, you need to stay away from sugar, white flour products, cured meats, spicy and harsh seasonings, etc. Don’t eat junk food! The right diet will strengthen the body and keep the immune system and nervous system in good condition.
Depression diet taboos for depressed patients
1, refreshing drinks. Similar to coffee, tea, cola-type drinks, do not take too much, especially in the evening before bed. Otherwise, its caffeine will attract insomnia and headache problems, and insomnia is one of the main causes of depression.
2, long-term vegetarian diet. Vegetarian food is the food that can cause depression? I believe that many friends are skeptical about this. In fact, some friends think that health is a vegetarian diet, every meal every day are vegetables and staples, and never point to any meat, seafood, etc. is a one-sided health concept, do not know that this will continue to increase the risk of depression.
3, processed foods. They occupy almost most of the blacklist of foods that can cause depression. Whether high-calorie, high-fat, high cholesterol type of fried food, or pickled semi-finished products of all kinds, which contains a single nutritional structure, even so is also processed by the loss of a significant part of the nutritional deficiency will also induce depression.
4, avoid foods rich in saturated fat. Pork or fried food, for example, burgers, fries, will lead to slow action, slow thinking and fatigue.
5, spicy and pickled food should not be too much. Avoid eating too much spicy, spicy, pickled, smoked and other stimulating food, because the cause of insomnia more, so patients should selectively choose the right food according to their own constitution.
6, alcohol. Wine is included in the blacklist of foods that can lead to depression because people have long misunderstood this method of stress relief. It is said that a drunken solution to a thousand sorrows, many people have a heavy burden of psychological pressure, internal pain nowhere to release will drink to vent. It is not known that excessive alcohol consumption not only does not help improve mood, but will lead to loss of appetite, malnutrition into and then induce depression.
7, tyramine can lead to increased blood pressure, taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors antidepressants, must be absolutely no cheese, rich in tyramine food: animal liver, fish, sour milk, cheese, chocolate, bananas, tofu, lentils, beef, sausage, red wine, beer, etc.. If the above foods are eaten at the same time can cause an increase in blood pressure.
Lithium carbonate and salt for manic patients
Since the therapeutic index of lithium salt is low and the therapeutic and toxic amounts are close, the blood lithium concentration should be monitored to help regulate the therapeutic and maintenance amounts and detect acute toxicity in time. Patients taking this product need to pay attention to the large loss of body fluids, such as persistent vomiting, diarrhea, sweating a lot and other conditions prone to lithium poisoning. Do not use a low-salt diet while taking this product. When taking the drug lithium carbonate, salt and lithium carbonate excretion have a mutual check and balance, sodium salt can promote the elimination of lithium salt through the kidney, too little salt intake can lead to lithium salt poisoning, dry mouth, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, dizziness and other ataxic symptoms, when taking lithium carbonate should be strictly controlled salt intake.
Psychiatric patients’ dietary contraindications
Experts say that the diet of patients with psychiatric classification needs special attention, the food prepared for the patient should be as free as possible without bones, spines, to avoid causing unnecessary injury.
Because of the lack of self-control in eating, patients are prone to overeating or malnutrition. The following are the dietary contraindications for schizophrenic patients.
1, avoid dopamine-enhancing drugs and diet: caffeine-containing foods and beverages, such as coffee, cola, Sprite, tea, etc.;
2, rich in dopamine predecessor substance – tyrosine food are: cheese, turkey, sunflower seeds, brown rice, peanuts and soy foods.
3, easy to produce phlegm food: such as fatty meat, crab, carp, eel, etc.; this is one of the daily dietary contraindications for patients with schizophrenia. Some phlegm-emitting foods such as fatty meat, crabs, carp, eels, etc. can cause phlegm to disturb the heart;
4. Foods and herbal medicines that can easily cause liver fire, such as spicy and stimulating foods like chili peppers, and herbal medicines that promote the liver and help Yang, such as Chai Hu;
5, health food and herbal medicines that warm the kidney yang, such as deer antler, sapodilla, bacopa monniera, etc.;
6, hormonal drugs that may enhance dopamine function, such as glucocorticoids;
7, change the blood concentration of Chinese herbal medicine water-relieving drugs.
8, smoking. Smoking can make the blood concentration of olanzapine and clozapine significantly lower.
Diet for dementia patients
For Alzheimer’s patients, we emphasize “three fixed, three high, three low and two quit”, that is, regular, quantitative and qualitative, high protein, high unsaturated fatty acid, high vitamin, low fat, low calorie, low salt and quit smoking and alcohol. Doughnuts contain alum, alum contains aluminum, aluminum ions can accelerate the aging of brain tissue, inducing Alzheimer’s disease, so doughnuts should not be eaten often.
Patients with hepatomegaly
Patients with hepatomegaly have mental symptoms such as loss of attention and memory, intellectual impairment, slow reactions, emotional instability, often accompanied by strong smiles, giggles, and also impulsive behavior or personality changes.
Foods high in copper such as millet, buckwheat noodles, brown rice, beans, nuts, potatoes, spinach, eggplant, pumpkin, mushrooms, mushrooms and algae, dried vegetables, dried fruits, mollusks, shellfish, snails, shrimp and crabs, liver and blood of animals, chocolate, cocoa should be avoided. Certain Chinese herbs, such as keiki, oyster, centipede, and whole scorpion. Pig liver Pig liver is rich in copper.