Speaking of apples, everyone must be familiar with them. Because apples are one of the most common fruits in our lives, the nutritional value of apples is very high, but it must be reminded that eating apples indiscriminately can also be harmful. Four types of people should not eat apples.
1. Patients with dysmenorrhea should not eat apples
Women always experience various symptoms during their menstrual period, and dysmenorrhea is one of them. Once a woman has dysmenorrhea, she will drink a lot of brown sugar water and take medicine to relieve it.
Although it is not advisable to eat cold fruits during the menstrual period, most women will warm the fruits in warm water before eating them, mainly to supplement vitamins during the period to relieve dysmenorrhea. However, this idea is wrong.
There is nothing wrong with eating fruits during dysmenorrhea. The mistake is to replenish energy with fruits that you think are beneficial to your body, especially during the menstrual period.
Apples are sour and astringent, which can easily lead to blood stasis and prolonged menstrual bleeding. Especially green apples, in the cold winter season, can easily lead to prolonged menstrual days, reduced menstrual flow, and even aggravate symptoms such as dysmenorrhea. Therefore, do not eat apples during your menstrual period to avoid worsening the symptoms.
2. Patients with constipation should not eat apples
Irregular daily diet, coupled with frequent consumption of spicy foods, can easily lead to constipation. Most people believe that constipation is mainly due to a lack of fruits and vegetables in their diet, so they eat a lot of fruits.
And the first choice for people is apples. Although apples contain a lot of dietary fiber and water, the pectin in apples can absorb excess water in the intestines. For patients with constipation, if they eat apples without drinking enough water, it will worsen constipation.
3. Patients with ulcerative colitis
Patients with ulcerative colitis should not eat raw apples, especially during acute attacks. Because the intestinal wall ulcers become thinner, the texture of apples is relatively hard, and the stimulation of 1.2% crude fiber and 0.5% organic acid is very unfavorable for the healing of the ulcer surface of the intestinal wall, and it can mechanically act on the intestinal wall, easily inducing complications such as intestinal perforation, intestinal dilation, and intestinal obstruction.
4. Patients with leukopenia, patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia
Patients with leukopenia and patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia should not eat raw apples, so as not to aggravate the symptoms or affect the treatment results.