Patients with lupus erythematosus should have a light diet with low salt, low fat and high protein. Patients with lupus erythematosus usually have excessive potassium excretion and edema due to long-term use of hormones. Therefore, we should pay attention to a low-salt diet and eat more fruits, such as bananas, apples, oranges, tomatoes and other foods containing potassium. However, patients with renal failure and high blood potassium can't eat foods with high potassium. At the same time, diabetics need to limit staple foods and sweets. Patients in the diet should pay attention to:

Vegetables: Chili, pepper, green pepper, garlic, onion, ginger and other spicy foods should not be used. Spinach can increase proteinuria in lupus nephritis, cauliflower can aggravate hair loss, coriander, mushrooms, celery, milk vetch and so on. Can aggravate or cause photosensitivity, not suitable for eating.

Seafood: it is forbidden to eat seafood such as shrimp and crab, which can induce lupus and aggravate the original lupus condition.

Meat: beef, mutton, horse meat, donkey meat, etc. Not suitable for warm use, high cholesterol fasting animal viscera, egg yolk, hairtail, pig brain and so on.

Fruit: People who are sensitive to light fast figs, people who are allergic fast pineapples, mangoes and bayberries, and people with high potassium fast oranges and bananas.

It is not advisable to drink alcohol, nor to treat with medicated wine or tonic wine. Harmful components such as nicotine can irritate the blood vessel wall and aggravate vasculitis, and should be completely quit.