How long should I avoid eating after double eyelid surgery?

After double eyelid surgery, you need to pay attention to your diet, especially the issue of dietary taboos. You cannot eat spicy foods or so-called irritating foods. Generally, there is no specific requirement for how long you should abstain from food, but you should at least abstain from food for about a week. For people with poor physical constitution or allergic constitution, the abstention period should be longer to ensure the success of the operation.

What should not be eaten after double eyelid surgery?

1. Sea fishy type:

The main aquatic products include hairtail, yellow croaker, pomfret, clam meat, shrimp, crab, etc. These foods are mostly salty, cold and fishy. For people with allergies, they can easily induce allergic diseases such as asthma and urticaria. At the same time, they can also easily induce skin diseases such as sores, swelling and toxins.

2. Edible fungi:

They mainly include mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, etc. Overeating of these foods can easily cause wind and yang, triggering chronic diseases such as liver yang headache, liver wind dizziness, etc. In addition, it can easily induce or aggravate skin sores and swelling.

3. Vegetables:

They mainly include bamboo shoots, mustard greens, pumpkin, spinach, etc. These foods are easy to induce skin sores and swelling.

4. Fruit category:

The main ones are peaches, apricots, ginkgo, mangoes, bayberries, cherries, lychees, melons, etc. Predecessors have pointed out that eating too many peaches can easily cause heat, carbuncles, sores, ulcers, furuncles, and worm-induced malnutrition; eating too many apricots can cause carbuncles and furuncles, and damage the tendons and bones.

5. Poultry and livestock:

The main foods include rooster, chicken head, pork head, goose meat, chicken wings, chicken feet, donkey meat, deer meat, beef, mutton, dog meat, goose eggs, duck eggs, etc. These foods are active and ascending in nature. Eating them can easily cause wind and raise yang, triggering chronic diseases such as liver yang headache and liver wind dizziness.

In addition, it can easily induce or aggravate skin sores and swelling. You cannot eat raw or irritating food after double eyelid surgery. Some seafood and other allergenic foods are also not allowed. Avoid spicy food, seafood, tobacco, alcohol and other irritating foods, because these foods can easily cause inflammation of the wound, leading to swelling of the upper eyelid, pus discharge, and ulceration, which is not conducive to wound recovery and can easily leave scars.