What dietary taboos should you pay attention to when it comes to hernia?

There is actually only one type of core dietary taboo for patients with hernia - any food that will cause constipation, bloating, severe coughing, sneezing, etc. that increase abdominal pressure should be avoided as much as possible. A sudden increase in abdominal pressure is the most common cause of aggravation of hernia and even incarceration emergencies.

Last week, I met an old retired patient in the outpatient clinic. His right inguinal hernia was discovered almost a year ago. He usually wears a hernia belt very well, but he couldn't hold back the ice chestnuts given by his children during the Mid-Autumn Festival. He ate a small amount of two kilograms in one breath.

When many people are first diagnosed with hernia, they search a lot of taboo lists online and dare not eat this or touch that. In fact, there is really no need to be so dogmatic. Many so-called "taboos" actually vary from person to person. Take the most controversial beans and cruciferous vegetables as an example. If you usually feel flatulent and fart after eating soybeans and broccoli, you should definitely eat as little as possible. However, if you drink soy milk and boiled vegetables every day, you will not feel uncomfortable. There is no need to deliberately avoid these foods. On the contrary, the dietary fiber and high-quality protein in these foods are beneficial for both daily symptom control and postoperative recovery.

Of course, there are some types of food that most people should avoid, such as the particularly hard air-dried meat, dried bamboo shoots, and brittle bones that cannot be chewed for a long time. Eating them can easily increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and cause constipation.； There are also irritating foods that are too spicy or too cold, which not only easily irritate the gastrointestinal tract and cause upset stomach, but also cause some people to cough violently due to the spicy food, and the food will pop up when the abdomen is pressed, just like the cloth bag you put things in has a hole in it, and if you press down hard on the contents of the bag, the hole will get bigger and bigger. 还有碳酸饮料、高度酒也尽量别碰，之前有个20多岁的小伙子，刚做完疝修补手术第三天就跟朋友去撸串，冰可乐灌了两大瓶，还喝了几瓶啤酒，肚子胀的像个小皮球，当晚伤口扯的疼了半宿，来复查倒是没出啥大问题，但是平白遭的罪真的没必要。

There are also people who have food allergies. For example, eating mangoes and seafood will cause you to sneeze and cough constantly. Then these foods are clear taboos for you. No matter how good others eat them, if you eat them, you will cause trouble for yourself. In fact, in the final analysis, the dietary taboos for hernias do not have so many fancy rules. The core is to stick to the line of "preventing the abdominal pressure from inexplicably increasing".