What should I eat if I have back pain during menstruation?

Most women often experience back pain during their menstrual period. There are always a few days every month when people always feel uncomfortable. Although many people experience this phenomenon, most women do not pay attention to it. When back pain occurs during menstruation, if you pay more attention to diet, you can appropriately relieve the symptoms of back pain. So what should you eat when you have back pain during menstruation?

Most women experience discomfort such as lower back pain or backache during their menstrual period to a greater or lesser extent. This is mostly due to their weak constitution, insufficient liver and kidney function, which causes accumulation of cold air. Eating glutinous rice and other liver and kidney-tonifying foods and those with warm properties can help alleviate the symptoms to a certain extent.

1. The diet one week before menstruation should be light, easily digestible and nutritious. You can eat more high-protein foods such as beans and fish, and increase the intake of green leafy vegetables and fruits. You should also drink more water to keep your bowels open and reduce pelvic congestion.

2. In the early stage of menstruation, women often feel back pain and lose appetite. At this time, you may wish to eat more appetizing and easily digestible foods, such as dates, noodles, barley porridge, etc.

3. During menstruation, you should eat nutritious and easily digestible food to facilitate the replenishment of nutrients. Drinking more water and eating more vegetables can keep your bowels open, which can also reduce pelvic congestion.

4. Some blood is lost during menstruation. Therefore, in the later stages of menstruation, you need to supplement with more foods containing protein, iron, potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium, such as meat, animal liver, eggs, milk, etc.

Auxiliary method: Lie prone, apply a hot and wet towel (not dripping) to the painful area of ​​the waist and the sacrum slightly below, then put a hot water bag on it, apply hot compress for about 10 minutes, and then apply hot compress on both sides of the waist for 10 minutes each. You can also use moxa sticks to moxibustion Guanyuan and Zusanli points.

A small folk remedy: 30 grams of motherwort, two eggs, add appropriate amount of water and cook together. After the eggs are cooked, peel them and boil for another 20 minutes. Eat the eggs and drink the soup once a day or every other day.

During menstruation, if you experience lower back pain, it is best to eat more nutritious, light and easily digestible foods. Do not eat irritating foods, especially spicy foods, which can easily lead to excessive bleeding during menstruation. Not only will it not relieve the symptoms of lower back pain, but it will aggravate them. Therefore, proper dietary conditioning is very necessary, drink more brown sugar water, and keep warm.