What are the dietary taboos for patients with bacterial vaginosis?

Bacterial vaginosis is tormenting countless people. Bacterial vaginosis patients should not worry about the disease. They should pay attention to maintaining a good attitude and take the disease seriously. They should also pay attention to the psychology of bacterial vaginosis patients in life and seek timely treatment. However, it is also important to understand the common sense of bacterial vaginosis. Dietary taboos for patients with bacterial vaginosis:

1. Avoid spicy, fried and hot foods

Spicy fried foods such as chili, pepper, fennel, Sichuan pepper, star anise, onion, fried dough sticks, roasted lamb, electric grilled chicken, fried quail, fried pork chops, fried chicken wings, etc.;

Hot foods such as beef, mutton, dog meat, etc. and various fried nuts such as fried melon seeds, fried peanuts, fried Torreya grandis nuts, etc., will cause heat and aggravate bacterial vaginosis and congestion after consumption, so they should be avoided.

2. Avoid seafood

Aquatic products such as shrimps, river shrimps, hairtail, crabs, swimming crabs, eels, razor clams, hairy clams, silver clams, oysters, abalone, etc. are mostly irritants. After eating, they will aggravate genital itching and are not conducive to the relief of inflammation, so they should be avoided.

3. Avoid sweet and greasy foods

Overly sweet foods such as candy, cream, chocolate, cream cake, glutinous rice cake, eight-treasure rice pudding, lard and fatty pork, mutton fat, egg yolk, duck egg yolk; these foods have a dampness-promoting effect, which will increase the secretion of leucorrhea and reduce the treatment effect.

4. Avoid smoking and drinking

Tobacco, alcohol and foods containing alcohol such as fermented glutinous rice balls, ginseng wine, deer antler wine, etc. will aggravate inflammation and congestion after consumption, which is not conducive to the treatment of this disease, so they should be avoided.

5. Drug contraindications

Because this disease is caused by dampness and heat, it is forbidden to use medicines with the effect of warming the interior and replenishing yang during the illness.

The occurrence of bacterial vaginosis is closely related to our diet in daily life. We must pay attention to dietary taboos on weekdays to avoid worsening of the disease.