What should your period avoid?

When women have their period, their bodies lose a lot of blood, and they are prone to anemia. Therefore, they should eat more blood-enriching foods, such as red dates. In addition, they are prone to dysmenorrhea at this time, so they cannot eat cold foods and should eat more warm foods. Generally speaking, women have many dietary taboos during their period every month, such as the following things.

Avoid eating during menstruation:

1. Cheese foods:

Cheese is the root cause of menstrual cramps. Foods such as milk, cheese, cream, yeast milk, eggs, etc. can destroy the absorption of magnesium and cause dysmenorrhea.

2. Caffeinated beverages:

Caffeine can cause breast tenderness, anxiety, irritability, and mood swings. It also consumes the body's stored vitamin B and disrupts carbohydrate metabolism.

3. Chocolate

Chocolate can cause more unstable moods and sugar cravings. In addition to making you fat, it also consumes vitamin B in the body.

4. Wine:

Alcohol will consume vitamin B and minerals in the body. Too much alcohol will disrupt carbohydrate metabolism and produce excessive estrogen.

5. High-fat foods:

Beef, pork and mutton are high-fat foods. Eating too much will consume a large amount of minerals in the body.

6. High sodium foods:

High-sodium foods can cause breast tenderness and lead to edema and breast tenderness. Foods in our daily life that are "invisibly" high in sodium include preserved eggs, pressed duck, herring, red sausage, ham, tofu pudding, dried tofu, candied fruit, olives, roasted peanuts, canned tomato juice, canned corn, canned pickles and other foods.

7. Snails:

Snails are very cool in nature and can clear away heat. Avoid eating cold foods such as snails during menstruation.

8. Milk

Cheese is the root cause of dysmenorrhea: foods such as milk, cheese, cream, and yeast milk will destroy the absorption of magnesium.

9. Too salty food:

Excessive consumption of such foods, such as salted fish and pickled meat, can cause symptoms such as menstrual headaches and irritability.

10. Crabs

Crabs are very cool in nature and can clear away heat, cool blood and relieve blood stasis. Women should avoid eating raw, cold foods during menstruation, especially those who suffer from cold dysmenorrhea.

11. Pear

Avoid eating too many raw pears during menstruation.

12. Green Tea

Menstrual blood contains relatively high levels of hemoglobin, plasma protein and hemoglobin, so women will lose a lot of iron after menstruation and should supplement iron. Tea contains more than 30% tannic acid, which easily combines with iron ions in the intestine to produce precipitation, hindering the intestinal mucosa's absorption of iron ions; it can cause breast pain, anxiety, irritability and emotional instability, while also consuming vitamin B stored in the body and destroying carbohydrate metabolism.

13. Peppercorns, cloves, and pepper:

During menstruation, you should eat light, plain, nutritious food. Avoid spicy food to avoid stimulating blood vessel dilation, causing early menstruation and excessive menstrual flow. Foods such as Sichuan peppercorns, cloves, and pepper are all condiments. Adding some to dishes during normal cooking can make the dishes taste better. However, women during their menstrual period should not eat these spicy and irritating foods, otherwise it may easily lead to dysmenorrhea, excessive menstrual bleeding and other symptoms.