Dietary taboos that patients with vulvar leukoplakia should follow

Patients with vulvar leukoplakia should pay attention to dietary adjustments in their daily lives and strictly follow the following dietary taboos.

1. Avoid spicy food

Spicy foods such as chili peppers, ginger, raw garlic, pepper, and onions are the primary dietary taboos for patients with vulvar leukoplakia. They should also refrain from smoking and drinking, especially during treatment, otherwise it may affect the treatment effect and cause unnecessary physical damage.

2. Avoid eating greasy and fishy foods

Patients with vulvar leukoplakia should have a light diet, avoid all kinds of greasy and meaty foods, limit fat intake, but avoid nutritional deficiencies. In particular, they should pay attention to supplementing various trace elements such as iron, copper, and manganese, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, such as mushrooms, tofu, green vegetables, fungus, carrots, and can often eat walnuts, sesame seeds, peanuts, etc.

3. Avoid eating too sweet things

If patients with vulvar leukoplakia have severe symptoms of itching and moisture in the vulva, they should avoid eating all kinds of sweets, including fruits with high sugar content such as apples, so as not to aggravate the itching symptoms.

4. Avoid eating seafood

Seafood products are a type of irritating and allergenic food that can easily aggravate the genital itching symptoms of vulvar leukoplakia. Patients should avoid eating such foods in their daily lives.

5. Avoid eating hair-raising foods

Meat products such as beef, mutton, rooster, shrimp, crab, scaleless fish, goose meat, and vegetables such as leek, coriander, and fennel are all irritants and patients with vulvar leukoplakia should avoid eating them.