1. Crabs

During menstruation, women should avoid eating raw and cold foods, especially those suffering from cold dysmenorrhea.

2. Zanthoxylum bungeanum, cloves, and pepper

During the menstrual period, you should eat light, bland, and nutritious foods. It is not advisable to eat spicy foods that are highly irritating, so as not to cause early menstruation and Excessive menstruation.

3. Field snails

It is very cool in nature and can clear away heat. Avoid eating cold food such as snails during menstruation.

4. Bamboo shoots

Bamboo shoots are cold in nature and women should avoid eating them during menstruation.

5. Watermelon

Watermelon is cold. Eating it during menstruation will cause menstrual discomfort, such as dysmenorrhea, so women during menstruation should fast.

6. Persimmons

Persimmons contain tannic acid, which easily combines with iron and hinders the body's absorption of iron in food. Because women lose a lot of blood during menstruation, they need to supplement iron. Therefore, it is not advisable to eat persimmons.

7. Cheese foods

Cheese is the source of dysmenorrhea. Foods such as milk, cheese, butter, yeast milk, eggs, etc. can destroy the absorption of magnesium and cause dysmenorrhea.

8. Salty food

Eating a lot of salty food before menstruation will cause too much salt and water to be stored in the body. On the eve of menstruation, headaches, local swelling, and uneasiness will occur. Symptoms such as agitation and irritability can cause trouble during menstruation. If you can start eating a light, low-salt diet 10 days before menstruation and reduce the intake of salt and water, the above discomfort can be reduced or eliminated.

What is the best thing to eat during menstruation?

1. During menstruation

You can appropriately add some warming foods or foods that slow menstruation and relieve pain.

(1) Foods that relieve dysmenorrhea: Women with dysmenorrhea can eat more spinach, celery, coriander, yams, carrots, grapes, kelp, black fungus and other foods that can activate blood circulation, remove blood stasis, and relieve dysmenorrhea.

(2) Foods that warm the body: Women with cold constitutions can eat more foods that warm the menstruation and dispel cold, such as chestnuts, lychees, brown sugar, and ginger.

(3) Others: If you are accompanied by symptoms such as poor appetite and low back pain during menstruation, you should choose nutritious, spleen-boosting, appetizing, and easy-to-digest foods, such as jujubes, yam, noodles, and coix kernels. Porridge etc.

3. After menstruation

After menstruation, especially those with heavy menstruation, you can appropriately supplement protein, iron and minerals within 1 to 5 days after menstruation.

(1) Foods high in iron: fish, lean meat, soybeans, spinach, etc. are rich in iron and have high biological activity and are easily absorbed and utilized by the human body.

(2) Foods rich in protein and minerals: mainly include beans (including soybeans, black beans, etc.), milk (including milk, goat milk, etc.), seafood, rice, etc. Milk and dairy products, eggs, carrots, broccoli, spinach, lettuce, oranges, apricots, sweet potatoes, etc.

(2) Foods rich in B vitamins: wheat germ, soybeans, peanuts, black rice, seaweed, kelp, milk, cereals, bananas, walnuts, etc.

(3) Foods rich in vitamin E: wheat germ oil, corn oil, peanut oil, sesame oil, walnuts, melon seeds, kiwi fruit, soybeans, spinach, rapeseed, corn, nuts, etc.

(4) Foods rich in vitamin C: leeks, bell peppers, celery, cauliflower, tomatoes, spinach, cabbage, potatoes, snow peas, citrus, orange, grapefruit, grapes, strawberries, etc.