1, women should drink green tea carefully during menstruation.
People in China have been drinking tea for thousands of years, especially green tea, which can almost be called national drink. Green tea is rich in vitamin C, vitamin K, tannic acid, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and other minerals, as well as a variety of anti-cancer and anti-aging trace elements. Can promote food digestion, and has the effects of losing weight, enhancing immunity, relieving fatigue, refreshing, and preventing tumors. Its functions of protecting smooth and tender skin and reducing wrinkles are especially sought after by young women. But although green tea is good, it is not suitable for menstrual women to drink.
Professor Jiang from Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine introduced that caffeine contained in tea can excite the nerve center and make people excited, which will aggravate women's menstrual reactions such as dysmenorrhea, headache and backache. Besides, green tea is a cold drink. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold products will lead to blood stagnation, poor blood circulation, abdominal pain, more blood clots during menstruation, or less menstrual flow, infertility and other diseases.
Iron, an important element for synthesizing hemoglobin during menstruation, will also be lost, so we will advise women to eat more iron-rich foods. Tannic acid in tea will combine with iron to form insoluble salt, which will affect the absorption of iron molecules by human body. Moreover, tannic acid has a astringent effect, which can slow down intestinal peristalsis and make the stool stay in the intestine, which often aggravates constipation symptoms that women are prone to during menstruation.
Professor Jiang suggested that women who have developed the habit of drinking tea for a long time may have some discomfort if they suddenly stop drinking tea during menstruation. At this time, they can try to gargle with tea to make the transition, which not only overcomes the tea addiction, but also maintains oral hygiene. Except for green tea, black tea is not suitable for drinking during menstruation. You can drink more brown sugar water instead, which is not only sweet in taste, but also can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, warm and strengthen the body.
2. What can't women eat during menstruation?
(1) Avoid hot and sour food.
During menstruation, women feel particularly tired, their digestive function is weakened and their appetite is poor. Therefore, the food should be light, easy to digest and absorb, and avoid eating foods that are too acidic and irritating, such as wild vegetables, sauerkraut, vinegar, peppers, mustard greens and peppers.
(2) avoid salty food.
If women eat too much salty food before menstruation, it will increase the salt and water storage in the body, and increase the progesterone in the body before menstruation, which is also prone to edema and headache. If you start eating low-salt food before menstruation 10 day, the above symptoms will not appear.
(3) Avoid drinking carbonated drinks.
Many women who like to drink carbonated drinks will be tired and listless during menstruation, which is a sign of iron deficiency. Because most drinks such as soda water contain phosphate, it will chemically react with iron in the body, making iron difficult to absorb. In addition, drinking more soda will neutralize the sodium bicarbonate in soda and gastric juice, reduce the digestive ability and bactericidal effect of gastric acid, and affect appetite.
(4) Avoid eating too much polysaccharide
In the past, many people thought that eating sweets could improve the discomfort during menstruation, so brown sugar, cookies or chocolate almost became the "standing medicine" for women during menstruation. Now it is believed that eating sweets with high sugar content will make blood sugar rise rapidly, which does have the effect of stabilizing mood, but once blood sugar drops, it will cause a bigger gap and make mood unstable. Deliberately eating sweets during menstruation can not only improve the symptoms of menstrual discomfort, but may affect the balance of hormones in the body because of unstable blood sugar, aggravate uncomfortable feelings and even cause dysmenorrhea.
(5) Avoid cold food
According to medicine, hot blood will do, and cold blood will stagnate. Eating cold food during menstrual period is not conducive to digestion, and it is easy to hurt human yang, leading to internal cold and cold stagnation, which can make menstrual blood run poorly, leading to too little menstrual blood and even dysmenorrhea. Even in hot summer, it is not advisable to eat cold drinks during menstruation.
These are some foods that women can't eat during menstruation. Women should not ignore that improper diet during menstruation will cause menstrual disorder or a series of female diseases after menstruation.