Can patients with allergic purpura drink milk?

Henoch-Schonlein purpura is an autoimmune disease whose pathogenesis is still unclear. It may be related to bacterial infection, viral infection, diet, drugs, insect bites and other factors. Allergic purpura often occurs in adolescents and children. Its clinical manifestations include skin lesions, skin purpura, accompanied by systemic symptoms such as high fever, pain, joint itching, and general discomfort. Can people with Henoch-Schonlein purpura drink milk? What should we pay attention to when we have allergic purpura?

Dietary care is necessary for children suffering from allergic purpura. They should eat a light diet, eat more foods rich in vitamin C, and stop eating some allergenic foods.

What to eat for allergic purpura

Children suffering from Henoch-Schönlein purpura need not only medication but also pay close attention to their daily diet. Parents should do the following:

1. Stop eating foods that may cause allergies. Allergy is a major cause of this disease. Many foreign proteins can cause allergic purpura, including fish, shrimp, crab, eggs, milk, broad beans, pineapple, etc. Children with Henoch-Schonlein purpura should immediately stop eating foods that may cause allergies and avoid contact with suspected allergens.

Once a food is found to be allergenic to a child, the child should be prohibited from eating this food for life, and the child should not use cooking utensils and tableware that have come into contact with this food. In addition, it is best not to feed children with Henoch-Schönlein purpura vegetables such as fresh flower buds that they have never tried before, because plant pollen is also a common allergen.

2. Eat more protein-rich foods. Children with Henoch-Schönlein purpura often suffer from anemia due to excessive bleeding, so they should eat more protein-rich and blood-enriching foods to supplement the body's needs. These mainly include lean meat, eggs, animal liver, kidney, spinach, tomatoes, kelp, seaweed, fungus, jujube and beans and their products.

3. Eat more foods rich in vitamin C. Vitamin C can reduce the permeability and fragility of capillaries. Eating more of it can help children recover. Foods rich in vitamin C include grapefruit, orange, tangerine, apple, lemon, strawberry, kiwi, tomato and various green leafy vegetables.

4. The diet should be light and nutritious. Prepare some nutritious and easily digestible food for your child. Avoid greasy food and do not overeat at each meal to avoid increasing the gastrointestinal burden and inducing or aggravating gastrointestinal bleeding. Those with severe abdominal pain or positive occult blood in stool should not eat liquid food, and those with obvious bleeding in the digestive tract should fast. People with kidney damage should limit their salt and water intake.

5. Eat less coarse grains. Children with Henoch-Schonlein purpura who have abdominal pain and bloody stools should eat a refined diet and try to avoid coarse food or food high in crude fiber, such as celery, rapeseed, bamboo shoots, pineapple, etc., which can damage the gastrointestinal mucosa and induce or aggravate gastrointestinal bleeding.

6. Avoid spicy food. These foods can induce or aggravate gastrointestinal bleeding in children and worsen the condition, so children should eat less or preferably not eat them.