Patient's question:
Patient: Female, 28 years oldSymptoms of this disease: Excessive menstruation, prolonged menstrual period
I would like to know what I cannot eat if I have uterine fibroids?
Doctor's answer:
Dietary Precautions for Uterine Fibroid Patients1. Maintain a light diet and avoid foods that may trigger inflammation, such as mutton, shrimp, crabs, eel, salted fish, and black fish.
2. Avoid spicy foods and beverages, such as chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, raw scallions, raw garlic, and baijiu (strong liquor).
3. Refrain from consuming foods with heating properties, blood-clotting effects, or hormone content, such as longans, jujubes, collagen, and royal jelly.
4. Increase intake of lean meat, chicken, eggs, quail eggs, crucian carp, softshell turtle, white fish, cabbage, asparagus, celery, spinach, cucumber, winter melon, mushrooms, tofu, kelp, nori (seaweed), and fruits.