5 Notes on Women’s Healthy Menstrual Diet

【Attention to diet during menstruation】

1. Eat less cold food

Try to eat as little cold food as possible. Most of these foods have the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, nourishing yin and reducing fire, such as pears, bananas, watermelons, bitter melon, etc. During the menstrual period, you should try to avoid or reduce the intake, otherwise it will easily cause symptoms such as dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation.

2. Eat less blood-activating foods

During menstruation, especially in the later period, you should eat less blood-activating foods, such as rapeseed, peaches, crabs, wine, peach kernels, onions, yams, garlic, green onions, ginger, sweet potatoes, white cauliflower, mushrooms, grapes, lemons, pineapples, grapefruits, olives, hawthorns, fungus, etc. Because our goal is to allow the uterus to heal normally, not to stop bleeding.

3. Avoid overheating or cold food

In addition, you should avoid eating food that is too hot or too cold at the same time, which will cause a large temperature difference. For example, eating ice cream right after eating hot pot or barbecue is a very wrong behavior. Don't stimulate the uterus, you know, it is very sensitive at this time.

4. It is advisable to drink hot milk with honey

Symptoms such as lower abdominal pain, soreness in the waist and knees, physical fatigue, restless sleep, and emotional irritability are physical discomforts that women often encounter during menstruation. Studies have found that women who drink a cup of hot milk with honey before going to bed every night during menstruation can reduce or eliminate various discomforts during menstruation. Because the potassium in milk can soothe emotions, relieve abdominal pain, prevent infection, and reduce menstrual blood volume; the magnesium contained in honey can calm the central nervous system, help eliminate women's nervousness during menstruation, and reduce psychological stress.

5. Eat more fish

Due to the influence of endocrine hormone changes, many women experience menstrual depression. Research has found that regularly eating fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids, such as salmon and sardines, can help women relieve depression or reduce the incidence of depression. Because the omega-3 fatty acids rich in these fish have antidepressant properties.