Probably because there are a few days every month when you are bleeding, the topic of “blood supplementation” for women has been flourishing in social networks just like weight loss. However, the legendary blood food is really useful? Well, it’s a long story. But first, let’s make one thing clear: if you have adequate nutrition and normal menstrual flow, you are not anemic. If you feel that your menstrual flow is not normal, or if you are having health problems, what you should do is to consult a health care professional.
If you say “you need to replenish blood”, you must be deficient, otherwise why do you need to “replenish”? Then we will start with anemia.
First, anemia: either earn less or spend more
Anemia is actually a pretty big topic, and the reasons behind it are very complicated. But! Ten thousand changes are not far from the same! If you compare red blood cells to money, at its root, anemia is the same as poverty, either because you earn less or you spend more.
1. “Earn less”
”It can be due to the malfunction of blood cells, such as aplastic anemia, congenital anemia with abnormal red blood cell production, etc;
It can be due to problems in the hematopoietic environment, such as renal insufficiency, liver disease, hypothyroidism, etc., resulting in insufficient erythropoietin;
It can also be the lack of raw materials for hematopoiesis, such as iron deficiency, vitamin, protein, etc.
2. “Spend more”
The “spend too much” has two kinds of situations: too much loss and too much destruction. Excessive loss can be seen in various causes of blood loss anemia such as hemophilia, trauma, peptic ulcer, etc. Excessive destruction can be seen in hemolytic anemia caused by various reasons. For example, fava bean disease, thalassemia, etc.
Since the topic of this article is blood supplementation, the only types of anemia that can be corrected by “supplementation” are worth talking about. Of the various types listed earlier, only the two cases of lack of blood-forming materials and excessive blood loss apply. Whether you need to replenish your blood by making less or losing more and needing overtime, raw materials are essential.
The two clinical types of anemia caused by lack or underutilization of raw materials are iron deficiency anemia and megaloblastic anemia.
Second, 3 special conditions that do predispose to anemia
When it comes to iron deficiency anemia, it is still true that anemia is the same as poverty, either because you earn less or spend more. For iron deficiency anemia, “earning less” includes both insufficient iron intake and iron absorption disorders. “Spending too much” is caused by excessive blood loss from various causes. For women, there are several special conditions that make them prone to iron deficiency anemia.
1. Puberty
The need for growth and development and the loss of iron after menstruation make the demand for iron of adolescent women significantly higher than that of children. If there is a bad habit of picky eating or not eating meat or even dieting in order to keep in shape, it is easy for insufficient intake to lead to iron deficiency anemia.
2.Pregnancy and lactation
During pregnancy, the demand for iron increases because of the needs of fetal growth and development, and because the blood is diluted. Although the absorption rate of iron increases significantly during pregnancy, it still can’t meet the demand. If you don’t take extra iron supplements, it is easy to deplete the stored iron in your body and lead to iron deficiency anemia.
3. Gynecological diseases
Women of childbearing age can suffer from chronic anemia due to excessive blood loss caused by various gynecological reasons, such as excessive menstruation, prolonged periods and shortened cycles caused by dysfunction and uterine fibroids.
Iron-deficiency anemia may cause mild discomfort such as weakness, lethargy, dizziness, headache, tinnitus, palpitations, etc., or severe mental behavior abnormalities such as irritability, irritability, lack of concentration, heterophagia, etc. For women during pregnancy, it can endanger the safety of the mother and fetus due to lack of oxygen and poor resistance. So if it really happens, it still needs to be treated seriously.
Three, iron deficiency anemia: not look like you can make up ah!
It is easy to see that for iron deficiency anemia, “replenishing blood” means “replenishing iron”, and the next thing becomes very simple, what food has more iron and is easily absorbed is not replenishing iron?
So here, we can finally correct a very common misconception: all along, many people hold the simple idea of complementing the shape with the shape of the red food as a remedy for blood, including a variety of red fruits such as cherries, mulberries, dragon fruit, red dates, etc.; a variety of red grains such as red beans, purple rice, etc.; and some other red foods such as brown sugar.
Hot brown sugar water and hot water is an effect, don’t get hung up on the “efficacy” of the so-called “can tonic” it ~
However, the color of these foods comes from the pigments that do not contain iron, and their iron content does not have anything to do with it. In the case of red dates, the hot star of the blood supplement industry, the iron content of each 100g of dried dates is only 2mg, while the same weight of pork liver can contain more than 25mg of iron. The same weight of pork liver can contain more than 25mg of iron.
In fact, in general, the iron content of plant foods is not raised in front of animal foods, and their iron is non-heme iron, the absorption rate is not as high as animal foods, red meat, animal offal and other foods are the mainstay of iron supplementation. The next time you encounter which no meat involved in the recipe dare to seal the blood to nourish the face, you can simply ignore it.
Fourth, eat vegetables “blood”: in order to supplement folic acid
But eating vegetables is not in the blood to do nothing? It is not. Just did not talk about the megaloblastic anemia, it was discovered and no vegetables to eat related. In the 1920s, many workers in the weaving mills of British colonial Bombay, especially women after childbirth, suffered from severe anemia.
At that time, iron supplementation had become the standard treatment for anemia, and the role of vitamin B12 in anemia had been discovered, yet the anemia in Bombay could not be corrected by supplementation with either factor. It was later discovered that because the people of Mumbai could not afford to eat vegetables, resulting in a scarcity of folic acid, the bone marrow could not produce new blood cells properly and countless half-finished red blood cells were released into the blood, which evolved into megaloblastic anemia.
The symptoms are especially severe in women during pregnancy because of the increased need for folic acid. Of course, today, with fresh vegetables readily available, people rarely suffer from megaloblastic anemia due to insufficient intake of folic acid and B12, but this story certainly tells us that children should eat more vegetables.
Five, “blood supplement” miracle gum, really useful?
In addition to food, there are also drugs that claim to be able to replenish blood, such as ginseng, angelica, shouwu, wolfberry, gum, and so on. Even if it becomes a medicine, the plant is still a plant, can not change the fact that the iron content is less, low absorption rate, so the first few can be directly as a send points pass the question.
As for the ace, boiled out of donkey skin, the main component is collagen, and pig skin, cowhide and other skin composition is not very different. There is no iron for the blood because there is little iron. You can’t even count on its collagen to nourish your face, because collagen itself can’t nourish your face, it becomes amino acids when you eat it, and it’s not different from eating pig skin directly.
So what’s the use of gelatin? It’s useless. Why is it so expensive? The hype is out. Why do so many people still eat it? People who used to eat blood buns really think that it can cure tuberculosis. Listen to my advice, friends, save the money to buy gum, buy pig liver to eat or buy iron to eat or donate to the mountains, it is better than buying gum.