Dietary considerations for patients with candidal vaginitis

Dietary precautions for patients with candidal vaginitis:

1. Avoid spicy fried and hot foods: spicy fried foods such as chili, pepper, fennel, pepper, star anise, onion, fried dough sticks, roasted lamb, electric roasted chicken, fried quail, fried pork chops, fried chicken wings, etc.; hot foods such as beef, mutton, dog meat, such as fried melon seeds, fried peanuts, fried incense, etc., will be heated after eating, aggravating vaginal inflammation and congestion, so avoid eating them.

2. Avoid eating seafood: shrimps, river shrimps, hairtail, crabs, swimming crabs, eels, razor clams, hairy clams, silver clams, oysters, abalone and other aquatic products are mostly irritants. Eating them will aggravate genital itching and are not conducive to the reduction of inflammation, so avoid eating them.

3. Avoid sweet and greasy foods: candy, cream, chocolate, cream cake, glutinous rice balls, eight-treasure rice, lard and fatty pork, mutton fat, egg yolk, duck egg yolk and other overly sweet and greasy foods will increase the secretion of leucorrhea and reduce the treatment effect.

4. Avoid smoking and drinking: Tobacco, alcohol, and foods containing alcohol, such as wine dumplings, ginseng wine, deer antler wine, etc., will aggravate inflammation and congestion after consumption, which is not conducive to the treatment of this disease, so avoid eating them.

5. Drug contraindications: Since the disease is caused by damp-heat, it is forbidden to use drugs with yang-tonifying effects such as red ginseng, aconite, dried ginger, Evodia rutaecarpa, clove, asarum, galangal, deer antler, psoralea corylifolia, Daji, Morinda officinalis, epimedium, bull whip, Curculigo, yellow dog kidney, Cynomorium songaricum, clam, and Cistanche deserticola during the illness.