Diet taboos during medical abortion

Ingredients with strong blood-activating effect, cold and raw foods with too low temperature, and foods that are too irritating are not recommended to be blindly supplemented right after taking medication. Specific taboos can be flexibly adjusted according to one's gastrointestinal tolerance and bleeding situation. The ultimate goal is to reduce abnormal uterine stimulation, reduce the risk of excessive bleeding, and worsening abdominal pain.

There is a girl next to me who has been through the trouble of supplementing her body. After medical abortion, her mother thought she needed a lot of supplements for her "little confinement", so she stewed donkey-hide gelatin, longan and red date soup every day. As a result, the bleeding was almost gone on the seventh day, but after three days of drinking, bright red blood came out again. There was no residue after a B-ultrasound. When the doctor asked about the diet, she immediately stopped taking the soup, and the bleeding stopped completely within three days. In fact, ingredients with clear blood-activating effects such as saffron, donkey-hide gelatin, longan, and lychee are indeed high-risk foods in the week before medical abortion. Medical abortion itself uses drugs to exfoliate the decidual tissue. When the coagulation function is temporarily affected, eating a large amount of blood-activating ingredients can easily prolong the bleeding time and increase the amount of bleeding. Of course, there is also controversy here: for example, people often ask about brown sugar ginger water. Western medicine believes that brown sugar is essentially sucrose and has no clear blood-activating effect. As long as there are no blood sugar problems, it is perfectly fine to drink half a bowl to warm the body. ； However, traditional Chinese medicine believes that brown sugar warms menstruation and activates blood circulation, and people with heavy bleeding should avoid it. Both opinions are based on evidence. You can choose according to your own situation.

Oh, by the way, there is another question about raw and cold food that everyone asks the most, and it is even more controversial. The view of traditional Chinese medicine is that qi and blood will be deficient after medical abortion. Raw and cold food will damage yang qi and stagnate blood. Therefore, it is recommended to heat even fruits at room temperature before eating. ； The view of Western medicine is that as long as your gastrointestinal function is normal and you don’t have diarrhea or abdominal pain, you can eat fresh fruits and vegetables at room temperature directly. On the contrary, heating will destroy the vitamins in them, which is not conducive to body recovery. Last week, a girl who was born in 1998 came to me to complain. She said that she couldn't help but eat half a box of room-temperature watermelon on the fourth day of medical abortion. Her mother scolded her for half an hour and said that she wanted to get to the root of the disease. As a result, she didn't feel any discomfort and the bleeding didn't increase. In fact, there was really no need to overdo it. But there is one point that both sides agree on: try not to touch iced drinks, iced fruits, and food just taken out of the refrigerator. I once met a girl who was fine with two cups of iced milk tea a day in summer. On the third day after a medical abortion, she drank half a cup of iced Americano. She was so painful that she broke out in a cold sweat and went to the emergency room. Ice can stimulate abnormal uterine contractions. She had paroxysmal abdominal pain during medical abortion, so why suffer this.

In addition to these two categories, many people also fall into the trap of highly stimulating foods. You should know that misoprostol itself will irritate the gastrointestinal tract. Many people will experience nausea and vomiting after eating it. If they eat spicy hot pot or heavy oil barbecue, it will easily aggravate the gastrointestinal discomfort. If they vomit too much and spit out the medicine, it will affect the effect of medical abortion. There are also things like coffee and strong tea. If you drink them every day, you will get a headache if you don’t drink them. It’s not a big deal if you drink a small cup of light ones. However, if you have palpitations and heavy bleeding after medical abortion, it is best to stop for a few days to avoid aggravating the discomfort. As for tobacco and alcohol, these are absolute taboos that all doctors will emphasize, and you need to remember them without further explanation.

There is another point that is easily overlooked: don’t drink milk-laden soup that is too oily immediately after the abortion. Put the old hen soup or pig’s trotter soup first. Prolactin will increase after pregnancy, and hormone levels will not drop immediately after medical abortion. Soup that is too oily can easily block the milk, and may cause mastitis if the swelling becomes painful. Try to eat a light diet in the first week, and it is not too late to supplement slowly after the bleeding subsides and the pain in the chest subsides.

To be honest, I have met hundreds of girls who have undergone medical abortion. Some people secretly took a bite of spicy food and nothing happened, while others drank a mouthful of warm rice wine and bled a lot. Individual differences are really big. There is no need to stick to the list of taboos on the Internet to create anxiety for yourself. Before eating, think about your usual gastrointestinal intolerance. After eating, observe whether there is abdominal pain or sudden increase in bleeding. If not, don’t worry too much. Rest well and keep your mood stable. It will work better than any dietary taboos.