Eat purple rice during confinement, and it is best to cook it into porridge. The method of purple rice porridge is very simple. First, prepare two pieces of purple rice and glutinous rice, red dates and a little rock sugar. The specific method is to wash purple rice and glutinous rice separately, and then wash red dates to remove the core. Pour water into the pot and add purple rice and glutinous rice at the same time. Boil it with high fire first, and then with low fire. After the porridge is cooked, add red dates and rock sugar and cook for about five minutes. Turn off the heat. Purple rice porridge has the functions of invigorating spleen and stomach, benefiting qi and enriching blood, and is especially suitable for women with postpartum weakness.
Dietary taboo of confinement
1, avoid eating more monosodium glutamate. In order to avoid zinc deficiency, new mothers should avoid eating too much monosodium glutamate. Generally speaking, it is beneficial and harmless for adults to eat monosodium glutamate, but if the mother eats a high-protein diet while breastfeeding, it will be harmful to the baby, especially the baby within 12 weeks. Because sodium glutamate in monosodium glutamate will enter the baby through milk.
Excessive sodium glutamate has a serious impact on the baby's development, especially within 12 weeks. It can specifically combine with zinc in the baby's blood to produce glutamic acid that cannot be absorbed by the body, but zinc is excreted with urine, resulting in zinc deficiency in the baby. In this way, the baby is not only prone to poor taste and anorexia, but also causes adverse consequences such as mental retardation and growth retardation.
2, do not eat cold food: postpartum body lack of blood, should eat more warm food, in order to facilitate the recovery of blood. If you eat cold or cold food after delivery, it is not conducive to the enrichment of qi and blood, and it is easy to lead to the dysfunction of digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach, which is not conducive to the discharge of lochia and the removal of congestion.
3, do not eat spicy and irritating food: eating spicy food, such as peppers, is easy to hurt body fluids, consume gas, damage blood, aggravate qi and blood weakness, and easily lead to constipation, which is not good for the baby after entering the milk. And mother's blood is weak after delivery. If she eats spicy food, such as pepper, it will cause sweating, which will not only consume gas, but also hurt body fluid and blood, aggravate postpartum qi and blood weakness, and even cause symptoms. Irritating foods, such as strong tea and coffee alcohol, will affect sleep and gastrointestinal function, and it is not good for your baby.
4, do not eat sour food: postpartum mother hyperemia internal resistance, should not eat sour food, such as ebony, lotus seeds, persimmons, pumpkins and so on. , so as not to block blood circulation, which is not conducive to lochia discharge.
5, do not eat cold drinks: such as ice cream, ice cream, cold drinks and so on. It is not conducive to the recovery of the digestive system, and it will also bring adverse effects to the mother's teeth.