What will happen if you eat wolfberry during confinement?

Lycium barbarum can be considered a natural health product, which has a good effect on improving physical weakness, decreased vision and kidney deficiency. Postpartum women need to supplement various nutrients to help the body recover quickly. Wolfberry is quite nutritious. Many mothers do not know whether they can eat wolfberry during the confinement period to supplement the body's nutrition. What will happen if they eat wolfberry during the confinement period? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. What will happen if you eat wolfberry during confinement?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that wolfberry has the functions of nourishing weakness, improving essence and qi, removing cold wind, strengthening yang, stopping tears, and strengthening the waist and feet. Drinking it regularly can strengthen muscles and bones and prolong life. Modern scientific research has proved that the effective ingredient of wolfberry is wolfberry polysaccharide, the main components of which are arabinose, glucose, galactose, mannose, xylose and rhamnose. Lycium barbarum polysaccharides have the effects of enhancing body immunity, anti-tumor and anti-aging. In addition, they have obvious effects of lowering blood lipids, lowering blood sugar, resisting hypoxia and fatigue, and can be processed into wolfberry wine and other wolfberry beverages.

Wolfberry is a warm tonic that can nourish the liver and kidneys and is very good for the body during the confinement period. There is a folk recipe for confinement after childbirth called wolfberry steamed rice wine, which is very suitable for consumption during confinement after childbirth. It has the effect of promoting lactation and is also a tonic. Drinking too much at this time will make people fat. Since it is a tonic, it will of course have a tonic effect on the baby, but the disadvantage is that the baby will also be affected by the effect of alcohol and affect its future intellectual development.

Wolfberry is very nutritious and can be stewed with chicken during the confinement period, but don't put too much. A little bit will do and the confinement meal will taste good.

In addition, it is best to wait until the lochia is completely discharged before eating wolfberry during the confinement period, because eating wolfberry will affect the discharge of lochia. You can eat wolfberry after the lochia is clean. Because wolfberry has a very strong effect of warming the body, pregnant women who have a cold, fever, inflammation or diarrhea should not eat it.

2. What should not be eaten during confinement?

1. Raw and cold food

Eating food cold does not only mean that the temperature of the food should not be too cold, but also attention should be paid to the nature of the food itself. For example: Bananas can prevent constipation, so postpartum women should eat them. But bananas are cold food, so try not to eat them during the confinement period. Similar examples include: melon vegetables, watermelon, pears, etc.

2. Spicy Food

Spicy, warm and dry foods can increase internal heat, which may cause the mother's internal heat to rise and lead to certain diseases. It may also aggravate the baby's internal heat through breast milk, so the diet should be light, especially within 5 to 7 days after delivery. It should be mainly soft rice, egg soup, etc. Do not eat too greasy and spicy food, such as garlic, chili, pepper, fennel, wine, leek and other spicy and warm foods and seasoning spices.

3. Fried foods and sweets

Fried foods can easily cause heat stagnation in the spleen and stomach, leading to constipation or bloating; eating too much sweets can also lead to spleen deficiency and dampness, causing stagnation of dampness and triggering diarrhea. Eating too much of these foods can easily cause symptoms such as chest tightness, diarrhea, poor appetite, cold hands and feet, and the tongue coating is often white.

4. Too salty food

Salt can coagulate water or blood in the body. If salty food contains too much salt, it can easily cause edema and induce high blood pressure. But you should not avoid salt, because after giving birth, you will urinate more and sweat more, and the amount of salt excreted will also increase, so you need to supplement a certain amount of salt.

5. Hard food that is difficult to digest

The mother is weak and does little exercise, so eating hard or fried food can easily cause indigestion.

6. Do not drink tea or beverages

The caffeine in tea can enter the baby's stomach through breast milk and cause intestinal cramps in the baby. The best drink is water. There is no drink healthier than water, so it is strongly recommended that new mothers do not drink tea or beverages on a regular basis and drink more water.

3. Notes

You should not catch a cold during the confinement period. Eating millet porridge and eggs is good for your body's recovery.