Patient's question:
Detailed medical condition and consultation purpose: I would like to know what dietary precautions should be taken for fibroid patients. Before I was diagnosed with fibroids, I used to consume royal jelly, honey, and pollen. However, before a physical examination, I noticed many new pimples on my face. Pimples are usually associated with adolescence, so I suspected that something might be wrong with me. Indeed, I was diagnosed with fibroids, and I wonder if certain dietary choices might accelerate their growth. What should I pay attention to?Doctor's answer:
The patient needs to understand the dietary principles for multiple uterine fibroids. Meals should be on a fixed schedule and in appropriate quantities, avoiding overeating. It is essential to maintain a low-fat diet, consume more whole grains, and regularly eat nutrient-rich dried fruits. Avoid spicy, alcoholic, and frozen foods, among others.Women with uterine fibroids should pay attention to their daily diet:
1. Meals should be light, avoiding foods that may trigger inflammation such as mutton, shrimp, crabs, eel, salted fish, and black fish.
2. Avoid spicy foods and drinks like chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, raw onions, raw garlic, and baijiu.
3. Avoid foods with heating properties, blood-clotting effects, or hormone components, such as longan, jujubes, donkey-hide gelatin, and royal jelly.
4. Consume more lean meat, chicken, eggs, quail eggs, crucian carp, softshell turtle, white fish, cabbage, asparagus, celery, spinach, cucumber, winter melon, mushrooms, tofu, kelp, and seaweed.
5. Regularly eat fresh fruits, vegetables, kelp, jellyfish, mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms, and hawthorn, while avoiding cold, spicy, and astringent foods.
For those with qi and blood deficiency, the diet should be nutritious and help reduce dampness.