A reasonable diet can improve one’s own health and prevent diseases; patients can recover from diseases through diet therapy. Diet therapy is mainly through the rational cooking of food, or supplemented by drug cooking to increase the patient’s appetite and increase the patient’s nutrition, so as to achieve the purpose of treating and preventing diseases. It is an important auxiliary treatment method. So what should be paid attention to in terms of diet for bedsore patients?
Decubitus ulcers are mostly caused by local long-term pressure, and are more common in bedridden patients. Therefore, patients with bedsores should pay attention to their diet.
1. For example, eat some cool products that clear away heat, detoxify and activate serum, such as wax gourd, golden needles, fungus, cucumber, eggplant, etc.;
2. Drink more soups, such as pork bone winter melon soup, seaweed soup, duck blood soup, loofah egg soup, etc.; fruit drinks can eat watermelon, banana, coconut juice, etc., you can also use mung bean soup or red bean soup, Mung bean lily soup, etc.
3. Eat more vegetable oils, such as peanut oil, sesame oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, etc., which have a moisturizing effect and help relieve constipation.
4. Choose foods rich in plant fiber, such as whole grains, vegetables, fruits, beans, etc.
5. In the compatibility of dishes, attention should be paid to the combination of meat and vegetables. Meat food can provide a lot of heat energy needed by the human body, but excessive amounts will damage the human body. For meat and vegetable collocation, it is best that the total amount of vegetables is more than double or more than that of meat dishes.
Some people think that they should give more nourishment when they are sick. In fact, the diet should be lighter during treatment.
6. Reduce the amount of salt to avoid water and sodium retention in the affected area.
7. Eat more vegetables rich in vitamins such as green vegetables and lettuce, and provide high-protein foods. Protein is a necessary substance to promote tissue repair and wound healing, and vitamins can also be used. To promote wound healing, high-protein, high-vitamin diets are given to enhance the body’s resistance and tissue repair capabilities when the disease permits.
8. Patients with indigestion, enteritis, diarrhea and constipation should eat more yogurt.
It also reminds patients that they should strictly avoid hot and dry meat such as chicken, beef, and mutton during the treatment period, and should not eat smoked, fried, and moldy foods. In addition, cold, sticky, fishy, indigestible and particularly irritating foods should be avoided. Not to mention overeating, alcoholism and partial eclipse, so as not to damage the function of the viscera, harm the regeneration ability of cells in the affected area, and cause drug allergies.