Hypothyroidism patients due to mucous edema often swollen hands and feet, body fat, salty food will cause water, sodium retention and aggravate edema. Although patients with hypothyroidism are not as strictly required to limit salt intake as patients with kidney disease, they should eat less salty foods such as pickles.
II. Suitable for the consumption of mild food, forbidding cold food
The Chinese medicine believes that all kinds of food have cold, warm and hot nature, such as the well-known eat more spicy easy to fire, eat more cold drinks will be easy to hurt the stomach. Chinese medicine believes that Yang Qi has the role of warming the body and promoting the operation of qi and blood, Yang deficiency is cold. Hypothyroidism patients are afraid of cold, like heat, fatigue, mostly belong to the Chinese medicine of yang deficiency, suitable for eating warm tonic. In the meat food, dog meat, venison, mutton, beef and other sex is warm tonic, suitable for hypothyroidism patients to eat in winter. From the perspective of modern medicine, protein intake is insufficient, the thyroid function has a tendency to be low, the supply of sufficient protein and calories, can improve the thyroid function. Vegetables in leeks, taos can warm the sun and strengthen the spleen, melons and fruits in the walnut meat can tonify the kidneys and warm the sun, hypothyroidism patients should eat more. But cold products such as watermelon, cold drinks, bitter melon, chrysanthemum tea, etc. is better to eat less.
Iodine is the raw material for making thyroid hormones, and seafood is rich in iodine. Hypothyroidism patients with insufficient thyroid hormones, eat more seafood can promote the synthesis of thyroid hormones, there is a soft and dispersing effect, to inhibit the swelling of the thyroid gland and nodules are helpful. Therefore, patients with hypothyroidism should eat seafood such as oysters, kelp, sea cucumber, shrimp, seaweed and so on. However, crabs are cold in nature and should not be eaten more than once. We usually eat crabs dipped in ground ginger also to avoid its coldness. Due to the weakened gastrointestinal function of patients with hypothyroidism, it is easy to have indigestion, bloating and other problems, the best way to eat seafood is to steam it, not only to keep the flavor fresh, but also to avoid grease and reduce the burden on the stomach and intestines.
Three. More rub hands and feet to promote blood circulation
Hypothyroidism patients with poor peripheral circulation, easy to cold hands and feet, limbs lack of warmth, in the cold weather, these exposed parts of the body will be more susceptible to cold. According to Chinese medicine, the twelve meridians of the yin and yang meridians in the fingers, there are many acupoints on the hands, often rubbing and massaging not only to move the joints, favorable qi and blood meridians smooth, rising yang qi to prevent the cold and warmth, but also to help the patients with hypothyroidism to relieve the hand bloating, the morning stiffness of the finger joints symptoms. This health care method is very simple, you can do while watching TV or riding in the car. The people also often say that the cold from the feet, protect the feet on the body on the warm, this is a certain scientific reason. Hypothyroidism patients every night before going to bed with a pot of hot water soaking feet for half an hour, while soaking and rubbing, not only can promote blood circulation, but also improve sleep, and now the popularity of foot massage has a similar role, can be called free family foot massage. The movie "Xu Mao and his daughter" in the role of Xu Mao's old actor more than 80 years old, but the heart function test is better than people in their thirties and forties, his secret is to insist on doing every day to do the self-written rubbing hands and rubbing legs exercise. Elderly friends may also want to try.
Four. Life should pay attention to warmth, morning exercise should be late rather than early
Hypothyroidism patient's body heat production declined, immunity and resistance is poor, than the average person is more susceptible to cold cold and flu, so should pay more attention to the cold and warmth.
The human body must adapt to the changes in yin and yang in order to maintain a harmonious balance with nature. In winter, when the weather is cold and the grass is withered, it is the season when everything in the natural world is closed, and the man's yang qi should be hidden in the inner. Due to the lack of thyroxine, hypothyroidism patients have low body temperature, which makes it even more inappropriate for them to go out in the early morning and late afternoon. Moreover, the air quality in the early morning is the worst in the whole day. For middle-aged and elderly people who have the habit of waking up early to exercise, they should try to postpone the time of waking up early to avoid getting cold. Activity exercise can make the meridian smooth, blood circulation, enhance the resistance of patients with hypothyroidism and heat production, but we should pay attention to prevent the movement is too strenuous, excessive exercise is not only not conducive to health, but also may induce cardio-cerebral vascular disease in the elderly. Walking, shaking hands, back-pounding, tai chi and other exercise methods are very suitable for middle-aged and elderly patients with hypothyroidism.
Hypothyroidism patients not only have to have a certain dietary routine, in daily life, more exercise, but also a kind of treatment, so that patients with hypothyroidism immunity and resistance increased, it is not easy to cold cold and flu, and so on.