You can eat okra during confinement, because okra is a green and healthy vegetable, and it is also very nutritious, and it also has the effect of promoting digestion. You can choose to stir-fry okra. Eat it or eat it cold, but try not to eat cold food during the confinement period. It is best to stir-fry okra, and try not to make it too greasy when frying, and don't add chili. Try to eat it as light as possible. .

Dietary taboos during confinement period

1. Avoid eating too much MSG. In order to avoid zinc deficiency in babies, new mothers should avoid eating too much MSG. Generally speaking, it is beneficial and harmless for adults to eat MSG, but for babies, especially those under 12 weeks old, it is not good if the breastfeeding mother consumes an excessive amount of MSG while taking a high-protein diet. Because the sodium glutamate in MSG will enter the baby's body through milk.

Excessive sodium glutamate has a serious impact on the development of babies, especially babies within 12 weeks. It can specifically combine with zinc in the baby's blood to generate glutamine that cannot be absorbed by the body. Acid, while zinc is excreted in the urine, resulting in zinc deficiency in the baby. In this way, the baby is not only prone to poor taste and anorexia, but also can cause mental retardation, growth and development retardation and other adverse consequences.

2. Avoid eating cold and raw foods: After childbirth, the body’s Qi and blood are deficient, so you should eat more warm and tonic foods to facilitate the recovery of Qi and blood. If you eat raw or cold food after delivery, it will be detrimental to the enrichment of qi and blood, easily lead to digestive and absorption dysfunction of the spleen and stomach, and will be detrimental to the discharge of lochia and the removal of congestion.

3. Avoid eating spicy and irritating foods: Eating spicy foods, such as peppers, can easily damage body fluids, consume qi, and damage blood, aggravate the weakness of qi and blood, and easily lead to constipation. It is also harmful to the baby after entering into breast milk. . Moreover, the mother's Qi and blood are weak after childbirth. If she eats spicy and divergent foods, such as chili peppers, it can cause sweating, which not only consumes Qi, but also damages body fluids and blood, aggravates postpartum Qi and blood weakness, and even causes illness. Exciting foods, such as strong tea, coffee and alcohol, will affect sleep and gastrointestinal function, and are also harmful to babies.

4. Avoid eating sour and astringent foods: Postpartum mothers have internal congestion and internal blockage, so they should not eat sour and astringent foods, such as black plums, lotus seeds, persimmons, pumpkins, etc., so as not to block the blood flow and hinder the discharge of lochia.

5. Avoid cold drinks: such as ice cream, ice cream, ice-cold drinks, etc., which are not conducive to the recovery of the digestive system and will also have adverse effects on the mother’s teeth.