What to eat to fill bone cracks?

Fractures are relatively common injuries. Generally speaking, fractures do not have many dietary taboos like gastrointestinal diseases. In fact, people with bone cracks must maintain a balanced nutrition in their diet. There is no need to take some supplements on the market that are specifically effective for bone cracks. It is best to pay a little attention to some details in your diet according to your physical condition. So what should you eat to fill bone cracks?

If the fracture is serious and requires surgery, fasting is often required for 12 to 24 hours before the surgery. Specific fasting situations need to be strictly followed according to the doctor's advice.

In the early stages of a fracture, before the bruises and swelling at the injured area have disappeared and before the surgical wound has completely healed, the diet should be light and steaming and boiling should be used instead of frying. The patient should not be given spicy foods such as chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, ginger, onions, garlic, and pepper to prevent the effects of anti-inflammatory drugs from being blocked and affecting wound healing. To prevent dark scars on the surgical wound, patients should not be given soy sauce or pigments.

If the fracture occurs in the trunk, the patient will often need to stay in bed for more than a week after surgery. During the bedridden period, the patient's eating, digestion and defecation issues must be considered. Otherwise, improper diet will not only bring difficulties to care, but also affect the patient's recovery. It is easy for patients to choke and cough when eating while lying down. Therefore, it is best to give patients semi-liquid or liquid food to make eating easier. If the patient chews frequently and vigorously, it is likely to strain the muscles and bones throughout the body and aggravate the pain. Therefore, the vegetables and meat given to the patient should not be those with too much fiber and too strong toughness, such as leeks and beef. Instead, choose crisp and tender vegetables. The vegetables should be chopped and stewed until soft, rice porridge should be stewed into a paste, and rice should be cooked softer to reduce chewing difficulties. The food given to the patient should be easy to digest. Do not give the patient foods that are difficult to digest, such as yam, potatoes, beans, etc.

During the bed rest period after surgery, one should not be afraid of the trouble of caring for the patient and provide the patient with solid food for a long time, reducing the intake of soup and water to reduce bowel movements. Patients often sweat due to unbearable pain, and in summer, the ward may be hot and stuffy, causing patients to sweat profusely. Some patients have fever due to serious injuries. All these situations require sufficient water supplementation. Therefore, patients can be given rice porridge or soup every day to ensure they drink plenty of water. If sweating is severe, you can add more salt to the food to make up for the salt lost in sweat. Otherwise, the patient may suffer from limb weakness due to lack of salt. If the patient cannot tolerate salty food, you can add some salt to the boiled water you drink.

If the injured person has been well-nourished and balanced in nutrition before the injury, and the injury and bleeding during the operation are not severe, then there is no need for professional dietary adjustment after the operation. It is sufficient to have a normal and balanced diet to ensure the normal intake of metal elements such as calcium, iron, zinc and selenium, and to eat fruits, vegetables and meat.

If you were calcium deficient before the injury, drink more bone soup. Pig skulls, pork shanks, beef ribs, pig coccyx, etc. are all good for bone healing. You can give the patient bone soup once or twice a day. Excessive calcium intake is harmful rather than beneficial, and is not good for the healing of bone wounds. Therefore, patients should not be given large amounts of bone soup every meal.

Most of the calcium in the human body is concentrated in the bones. Therefore, after a fracture, many people focus on calcium supplementation and often ignore other nutritional supplements. In order for bone fractures to heal, the periosteum and tendons also need to heal, and sufficient blood supply is needed to remove blood stasis and transport nutrients to the wound. Therefore, you should eat more foods rich in collagen and phosphorus. People with anemia should pay more attention to blood supplementation and eat more iron-rich foods such as spinach.

Some patients with severe fractures often suffer from pain for two or three months after surgery, cannot sleep well, and lose weight quickly. Therefore, in order for patients to recover faster, they can be given some calming foods to improve their sleep quality.