Sickness enters through the mouth, and diet has a very important relationship with bronchitis. If bronchitis patients eat too much greasy food in their three meals, it can easily lead to aggravation of cough and asthma. Some irritating foods can also cause local edema in the bronchi. What should bronchitis patients not eat?
1. Avoid cold and raw foods
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "coldness injures the lungs." This means that once the body is exposed to cold and consumes cold things, it can damage the lungs. Cough is often caused by the failure of lung qi to diffuse and its upward reversal due to lung diseases. If the diet is still too cold at this time, it can easily lead to lung qi obstruction, worsening symptoms, and a prolonged illness. Whether in children or adults, cough is often accompanied by phlegm, and the amount of phlegm is related to the spleen. The spleen is the foundation of the acquired constitution, governing the digestion and absorption of food. Consuming too many cold and raw foods can damage the spleen and stomach, causing a decline in spleen function and leading to the accumulation of dampness and the production of phlegm.
2. Avoid greasy, rich, and heavy foods
Cough is mostly caused by lung heat, especially in children. In daily diet, eating too much greasy and rich food can generate internal heat, worsening the cough, and the phlegm becomes thick and sticky, making it difficult to cough up. Overindulgence in greasy and rich food can lead to the combination of phlegm and heat, obstructing the respiratory tract, worsening asthma, and making the disease difficult to cure. Therefore, light foods should be eaten during a cough.
3. Avoid seafood
Eating seafood and "trigger" foods: Allergic reactions are one of the causes of chronic bronchitis, and fish, shrimp, salmon, yellow croaker, hairtail, tench, crab, poultry eggs, fresh milk, or dairy products are common allergens. Therefore, patients with chronic bronchitis should avoid these foods.
In addition, bronchitis patients should also avoid alcohol, eggs, pumpkin, mustard, rice wine, pickled mustard greens, and fermented glutinous rice.
One-day reference meal: Breakfast: Japonica rice, coix seed, wheat flour, eggs, etc., such as coix seed porridge, steamed twisted rolls, boiled eggs; Snack: Apple;
Lunch: Rice, tomato, carp, mushroom, rape, etc., such as rice, tomato carp fillets, mushroom with rape; Snack: Pear;
Dinner: Wheat flour, beef, cabbage, carrot, etc., such as steamed bun, steamed beef with rice flour, cabbage with carrot.