How to eat and drink for rheumatoid arthritis patients

  Patients with rheumatoid arthritis are generally advised to eat high-protein, high-calorie, easily digestible food, and less spicy stimulating and cold, greasy things. Diet should pay attention to the following points: (1) diet should be moderate. The diet should be regular and quantitative, and the food should be soft, hard, cold and hot. Do not worry about weakness, nutrition and overeating, which will increase the burden on the spleen and stomach and hurt the digestive function.  (2) Diet should be light. Rheumatoid arthritis patients often suffer from pain, and long-term drug as a companion. When the disease is attacked, it is not a good meal, so food should be light. One can maintain a good appetite, the other can maintain a better spleen and stomach transport function, to enhance the ability to resist disease. Should eat less fatty food, eat more fresh vegetables, fruits and algae food, cooking dishes with vegetable oil, try not to eat fat, butter and fried food.  (3) diet should not be partial. Chicken, duck, fish and meat, grains and cereals, vegetables and fruits should not be ignored, should be a reasonable mix.  (4) the correct treatment of dietary supplements and medicinal supplements. Whether food or medicine, rheumatoid arthritis patients are beneficial, but must be based on the condition and the strength of the spleen and stomach transport function to carry out. For example, milk, soy milk, cream of wheat, chocolate is a nutritional good, but the body has damp heat or sticky tongue, but eat more abdominal distension and discomfort, do not want to eat; ginseng, white fungus, gum can nourish the blood, but the spleen and stomach and damp heat is not contained in those who take it, but congestion and help damp, not only the disease can not go, but add pain.  (5) Pay attention to dietary contraindications. Some patients with rheumatoid arthritis have a long course of illness, if the disease is too strict, long years of illness, affecting the absorption of nutrients, which is not conducive to the recovery of the disease. Generally speaking, patients with rheumatoid arthritis can consume any diet and do not need to avoid eating. The only thing is that during the acute phase or acute attack, when the joints are red, swollen and burning, it is not advisable to enter the spicy and stimulating food; those who have been sick for a long time and have a cold spleen and stomach, eat less cold fruits and shrimp, crab, bamboo shoots and so on. Once the disease is stable, the taboo can be relaxed.