Can lettuce be eaten in confinement?
Maternal women can eat lettuce during the confinement period.
Lettuce contains a lot of iron, which can be well absorbed by the human body. Because the parturient has just given birth, her blood loss is serious, so eating fresh lettuce can play a role in enriching blood. Moreover, the potassium content in lettuce is higher than that in sodium, which can balance the water and electrolyte in the body and promote the milk secretion of parturient.
Can I eat more lettuce in confinement?
Maternal women should not eat too much lettuce during the confinement period.
Lettuce is a cold vegetable. If you eat too much, it is easy to accumulate cold in your body, while the baby will infect the cold through breast milk, which will lead to indigestion or diarrhea, so it is better to eat less.
Benefits of eating lettuce in confinement
promoting lactation
Lettuce is a kind of food with high potassium and low sodium, which can make the water and electrolyte in the body get a better balance and promote the milk secretion of parturient.
Prevention and cure constipation
Lettuce contains a lot of cellulose, which is beneficial to the digestive tract and can make the stool excrete better, so it can be used to treat constipation during confinement.
Increase appetite
Lettuce tastes fresh but slightly bitter. It can promote digestion, which in turn can stimulate appetite.
Method of eating lettuce in confinement
Lettuce porridge
Ingredients: appropriate amount of lettuce, 5g of licorice, 0g of rice100g, and appropriate amount of sugar.
Practice: wash lettuce and licorice, mash them, boil them with water, take their juice, then pour rice into the juice to cook porridge, add appropriate amount of sugar when it is cooked, and turn off the fire when it boils again. Once a day for 7- 10 days.
Efficacy: Because the parturient has just given birth to deficiency of qi and blood, the milk will be less. Eating lettuce porridge can increase the secretion of milk.
Fried sliced meat with lettuce
Ingredients: lettuce, meat, ginger, salt, cooking wine, chicken essence, soy sauce, dried pepper.
Practice: First, wash the lettuce and cut it into pieces, and slice the meat. In order to ensure the crispness of the lettuce, it needs to be salted for 2-3 minutes. After pickling, wash it with water and drain the water. Put the ginger slices in a hot oil pan, then put the meat slices in and stir-fry them until they turn white. Pour some cooking wine and some soy sauce in and continue to stir-fry for 1 min. Then put the lettuce, pepper and proper amount of salt in and stir-fry them for 2 minutes. Finally, add some chicken essence and you can get out of the pan.
Efficacy: Fried meat slices with lettuce can promote digestion and improve the poor appetite of lying-in women.
Precautions for eating lettuce in confinement
Maternal women with poor eyes can't eat too much lettuce during the second month, because lettuce contains lettuce biochemical substances, which will have a certain impact on the optic nerve. If pregnant women with eye diseases eat too much, the symptoms of their eye diseases will be more serious.