It is advisable to eat foods with the functions of clearing away heat and purging fire, detoxifying and stranguria, and to eat light fresh fruits and vegetables; Avoid spicy and irritating food, spicy and nourishing food, greasy and sour food, alcohol and tobacco.

Suitable food

Patients with urinary tract infection should eat the following foods.

Celery-no matter celery or celery, it has the effect of clearing away heat and purging fire, and is suitable for people with urinary tract infection with unfavorable urine heat.

Amaranth-cool, clear away heat and begin to understand. Amaranth 100g and plantain 50g are commonly used among the people, and decoction is used instead of tea.

Ardisia-cold, can clear away heat and detoxify. 100 ~ 200g fresh Japanese Swertia can be combined with100g plantain, which is suitable for patients with urinary tract infection and hematuria.

Lily.-Cool and sweet. Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Damp heat." "Rihuazi Materia Medica" also contains: "Day lily cures red urine." Therefore, patients with urinary tract infection should drink day lily decoction or eat it as a dish.

Mung beans-cold in nature, can clear heat and promote diuresis. People with urinary tract infection are suitable for drinking mung bean soup, which has diuretic and antipyretic effects on people with fever, urinary incontinence and dysuria.

Wax gourd-cool in nature, sweet and light in taste, good at benefiting water, clearing away heat and detoxifying. When patients with urinary tract infection have frequent micturition, urgent micturition and painful micturition, it is advisable to use winter melon simmer soup for regular drinking.

Watermelon-cold in nature, sweet in taste, has obvious heat-clearing and diuretic effects, and is suitable for patients with urinary tract infection and unfavorable urination. Or take the juice to drink, or eat it at will, or fry it in water with watermelon peel.

Kiwifruit-cold in nature, can clear heat, relieve stranguria and induce diuresis. It is not only suitable for treating urinary calculi, but also suitable for people with acute urinary tract infection.

Strawberries are cool and can clear away heat and induce diuresis. It is especially suitable for patients with urinary tract infection and hematuria.

Sheep peach-cold in nature, can clear away heat, detoxify and diuretic. People with urinary tract infection and urinary calculi should take it.

Snail cold has the function of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for patients with urinary tract infection and urinary tract obstruction.

Mung bean sprouts-cold in nature, sweet in taste, can "relieve hangover and clear heat, benefit triple energizer" and are suitable for urinary tract infection.

Clams are cold and salty, and have the functions of clearing heat, diuresis, nourishing yin and resolving phlegm. It is not only a nourishing food, but also an edible diuretic. People with urinary tract infection should eat properly.

Snails-cold in nature, sweet in taste, can clear away heat and promote diuresis, and treat stranguria. The so-called "leaching" is mostly caused by urinary tract infection, frequent urination and severe pain.

In addition, people with urinary tract infection should also eat some chrysanthemum brain, Nostoc flagelliforme, Malantou, Artemisia selengensis, water chestnut, Zizania caduciflora, adzuki bean, wolfberry head, raw coix seed, banana, honeysuckle, white chrysanthemum, black fungus, clam meat, loofah and so on.

Taboo items

People with urinary tract infections should avoid eating the following foods.

Dog meat-a warm nourishing food. Urinary tract infection should be eaten with cool and heat-clearing food, and it is not advisable to eat warm dog meat.

Pomegranate-warm and astringent. People with urinary tract infection should not eat anything warm and astringent, and it is best not to eat pomegranate.

Papaya-warm, sour and sweet. People with urinary tract infection should avoid eating acidic food, while papaya is sour and astringent, so it should be avoided.

Ginger-warm and spicy. Ginkgone can stimulate urinary tract mucosa such as bladder, thus aggravating the inflammatory reaction of urinary tract infection, and should be avoided.

Pepper-very hot. People with urinary tract infection should not eat more peppers, otherwise it will aggravate the condition.

Cinnamon-commonly known as cinnamon, is hot and spicy, belonging to pure yang, which helps heat to get angry and blood to hurt yin. Do not eat too much.

Ginseng-warm in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, is a food for invigorating qi and strengthening the body, which contributes to the disadvantages of heat and internal heat. Patients with acute urinary tract infection are all heat syndrome, so do not take ginseng.

In addition, patients with urinary tract infection should avoid eating onions, garlic, peppers, peppers, fennel, cloves, pickled mustard tuber, tobacco and alcohol, oranges, cherries, bayberry, lychee, longan, grapes, vinegar, sparrows, geese, mutton, beef, yellow croaker, hairtail, eel, shrimp, astragalus, placenta hominis and codonopsis pilosula.