In the hot summer, eating a piece of ice-cold watermelon is really refreshing in an instant! Watermelon is a good food for relieving summer heat. It has sufficient water content and has antipyretic and diuretic effects. Many people think that it is not good for women to eat watermelon during menstruation. So can watermelon be eaten during menstruation?

In this regard, gynecological experts said that female friends should avoid raw and cold foods during menstruation, and watermelon is a typical cold food. Although watermelon contains a lot of water, a variety of amino acids and sugars, and has the effect of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, and refreshing thirst, watermelon is cold and slippery, also known as "cold melon". Even normal people should not eat it in excess, especially women during menstruation. It should be eaten with caution.

In addition, it is recommended that you do not eat cold foods during your menstrual period, such as ice products, winter melon, eggplant, loofah, cucumber, winter melon, crab, snail, kelp, bamboo shoots, oranges, Pears and grapefruit, because these foods can cause menstrual cramps.

If women eat raw or cold food during menstruation, it will hinder digestion and damage the human body's yang energy, causing internal cold and stagnant coldness, which can make menstrual blood flow sluggishly and cause scanty menstrual blood. , or even dysmenorrhea. Female friends should avoid raw and cold foods during menstruation, and watermelon is a typical cold food. If a female friend eats cold watermelon during menstruation, the blood will be stimulated by the temperature change, resulting in poor circulation and prone to blood clots, causing menstrual pain. In addition, there are some precautions you need 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 the meal. If you eat watermelon immediately after a meal, a large amount of water will dilute the gastric juice and affect the digestion and absorption of food. It is best to eat watermelon two hours after a meal.

2. Although eating iced watermelon in summer is very enjoyable, eating too much and too quickly at one time is very irritating to the stomach and can easily cause gastrointestinal vasoconstriction and even spasm. It is best to buy watermelon and eat it now. If you want to eat it iced, try to refrigerate it between 10℃-15℃, and the refrigeration time should not exceed two hours.

So I would like to remind all women that watermelon is cold in nature and relieves heat, so you should not eat too much during menstruation, and you should not eat food that is too cold!