What should patients with dry socket avoid eating? Dietary taboos for patients

Dry socket is a severe pain that occurs 3-4 days after tooth extraction, mostly due to infection from tooth extraction. When dry socket occurs, you must pay attention to your diet and avoid eating foods that are difficult to digest, foods that cause bloating, and barbecued foods.

1. Dietary taboos for dry socket

1. Avoid eating foods that are difficult to digest: such as chestnuts, rice cakes, and rice cakes; 2. Avoid eating grilled foods: grilled chicken and grilled fish; 3. Avoid eating foods that easily produce gas: onions and soybeans.

2. Diet therapy for dry socket:

① 50g of yam, boil until crispy, add 50g of polished rice, cook into porridge, drink warm; 20 red dates, 20 longan pulps, boil into soup, drink warm; 20g of astragalus, boil into thick juice, 500g of young chicken, steam in a steamer, add astragalus juice, steam until crispy, drink the soup and eat the chicken. The above is used for both Qi and blood deficiency type and spleen and stomach weakness type.

② 250g tomatoes (peeled), mix with sugar; 5g each of fresh Patchouli and fresh Cymbidium, add water and boil until 1,000ml, add 500g wax gourd cubes, cook and eat; 20g green onion (chopped into fine pieces), 300g tofu, add salt and mix. The above is used for wind-fire and excess heat type.

Suitable food: residue-free cold liquid diet (cold milk, ice cream, juice), light diet, egg custard, soft steamed buns, rice porridge, boiled noodles, vegetable puree or soup, etc., vegetable and meat porridge, stewed tofu, jam bread, tofu pudding, tomato and eggs.

3. Symptoms and Signs

The main symptom is persistent severe local pain 3-4 days after tooth extraction, which also involves ear and temporal pain. The blood clot in the local alveolar socket appears dark gray, and the necrotic tissue gradually falls off, exposing the alveolar bone. The gums around the tooth extraction wound are red and swollen, the surface of the alveolar bone wall is bone necrotic, covered with a grayish-white pseudomembrane, and the wound has a foul odor. Local lymph nodes are swollen, painful when pressed, limited mouth opening, low fever, and general discomfort.