Most patients and their families are confused about the nutritional needs and diet of fracture patients, and often consult doctors.

In fact, fracture patients may have mild systemic symptoms in the first few days, but most patients have no systemic symptoms in the rest of the time. Therefore, similar to the daily diet of ordinary healthy people, it is enough to choose a variety of nutritious diets. Pay attention to make food easy to digest and absorb, and use spicy products (pepper, raw onion, mustard, pepper) that have bad stimulation to respiratory tract and digestive tract with caution. When systemic symptoms are obvious, so-called soft meals should be given between normal diet and semi-liquid diet. The food to be served must contain less dregs and be easy to chew and digest. When cooking, it must be chopped and cooked until soft, which is not suitable for frying and frying.

These are the general dietary principles of fracture patients. In order to promote fracture healing faster and better, fracture patients should also give different foods according to the early, middle and late stages of fracture healing and the development of the disease, so as to promote hematoma absorption or callus formation.

△ Early stage (1-2 weeks): swelling and blood stasis at the injured part, obstruction of meridians and qi and blood. At present, the treatment is mainly to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Chinese medicine believes that "blood stasis does not remove, bones do not grow" and "blood stasis removes, new bones grow". It can be seen that detumescence and blood circulation are the most important factors for fracture healing. In principle, the diet is light, such as vegetables, eggs, bean products, fruits, fish soup and lean meat. Don't eat sour, hot and greasy, especially don't give greasy and nourishing products too early, such as bone soup, fat chicken and stewed fish. Otherwise, blood stasis will be stagnant and difficult to dissipate, which will inevitably delay the course of disease, slow down the growth of callus and affect the recovery of joint function in the future. At this stage, the dietotherapy can use Panax Notoginseng 10g, Angelica sinensis 10g, meat pigeon 1g, stew, soup and meat, once a day, for 7-1 0 days.

△ Mid-term (2-4 weeks): Blood stasis and swelling are partially absorbed. The treatment at this stage is mainly to relieve pain, remove blood stasis, promote tissue regeneration, set bones and continue tendons. Diet should be changed from light to appropriate high nutrition supplement to meet the needs of callus growth. You can add bone soup, Tianqi stewed chicken and animal liver to the initial diet to supplement more vitamins A, D, calcium and protein. Dietotherapy can use Angelica sinensis 10g, Rhizoma Drynariae 15g, Radix Dipsaci 10g, fresh pork chop or beef sparerib 250g, stew for more than 1h, and eat soup and meat together for 2 weeks.

△ Late stage (more than 5 weeks): 5 weeks after the injury, the congestion at the fracture site is basically absorbed, and the callus has begun to grow, which is the late stage of the fracture. Treatment should be supplemented by nourishing liver and kidney, qi and blood, promoting the formation of firmer callus, relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, making the adjacent joints of fracture move freely and restoring their former functions. Taboo can be lifted in diet, and recipes can be supplemented with old hen soup, pig bone soup, sheep bone soup, deer tendon soup, stewed water fish and so on. You can choose Eucommia ulmoides wine, Spatholobus suberectus wine, Tiger Bone papaya wine, etc. Dietary therapy can use Lycium barbarum 10g, Rhizoma Drynariae 10g, Radix Dipsaci 10g and Coicis Semen 50g. Stir-fry Rhizoma Drynariae and Radix Dipsaci to remove residue, and then add the remaining two kinds of boiled porridge to eat. Daily 1 time, 7 days for 1 course of treatment. Every 1 treatment interval is 3-5 days, and 3-4 treatments can be used.