In addition, it is recommended not to eat cold food during menstruation, such as ice, wax gourd, eggplant, loofah, cucumber, wax gourd, crab, snail, kelp, bamboo shoots, oranges, pears and grapefruit, because these foods can cause dysmenorrhea.
Women eat cold food during menstruation, which hinders digestion, and it is easy to hurt human yang, leading to internal cold and cold stagnation, which can make menstrual blood run poorly, lead to too little menstrual blood and even dysmenorrhea. Female friends should avoid cold food during menstruation, and watermelon is a typical cold food. If a female friend eats cool watermelon during menstruation, her blood will be stimulated by temperature changes, which will lead to poor circulation, easy to produce blood clots and cause menstrual pain. In addition, there are some precautions to know when eating watermelon!
1, many people like to eat a little watermelon when they are hungry before meals, which causes the stomach volume to be occupied by watermelon and greatly reduces the intake of various nutrients during meals. Eating watermelon immediately after a meal will dilute the gastric juice and affect the digestion and absorption of food. It is best to eat watermelon two hours after meals.
2. Although eating iced watermelon in summer is very enjoyable, eating too much and too fast at one time is very irritating to the stomach, which is easy to cause vasoconstriction and even stomach convulsions. Watermelon is best bought and eaten now. If you want to eat ice, try to refrigerate it at 10℃- 15℃ for no more than two hours.
So remind all women that watermelon is cold and antipyretic, and it is not advisable to eat more during menstruation, nor to eat too cold food!