Patient's question:
Hello, may I ask what dietary precautions I should take given that I have chronic pelvic inflammatory disease and uterine fibroids? I've heard that eating chicken can accelerate the growth of fibroids?Doctor's answer:
Hello, dietary precautions for patients with uterine fibroids:1. 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 drinks, such as chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, raw scallions, raw garlic, and baijiu (Chinese liquor).
3. Do not consume foods with heating properties, blood-clotting effects, or hormone content, such as longans, jujubes, collagen, and royal jelly.
4. Eat more lean meat, chicken, eggs, quail eggs, crucian carp, softshell turtle, white fish, cabbage, asparagus, celery, spinach, cucumber, winter melon, mushrooms, tofu, kelp, nori, and fruits.