What fruit should I send to the patient?

When relatives and friends are sick, it is inevitable to visit them. It is better to send some fruits when they are seeing a doctor. Fruits have high nutritional value, are sweet and delicious, and can promote the patient's appetite. There are also some requirements when sending fruits. The fruits sent will be different for different disease groups. For example, for patients with chronic diseases, some grapefruit, strawberries, citrus, etc. should be sent. If it is a patient with a digestive system disease, some lemons, plums, and hawthorns can be sent.

What fruit should I send to the patient?

1. Chronic diseases

It is reported that many hospitalized patients suffer from chronic diseases. When visiting patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, you should choose some fruits that help control blood pressure and blood lipids, such as bananas, citrus, strawberries, apricots, etc. that are high in potassium. These fruits can help excrete excess sodium in the body, thereby lowering blood pressure and preventing arteriosclerosis. At the same time, citrus, grapefruit, strawberry, and apricot are also rich in vitamin C and niacin, which can prevent lipid deposition in the body and decompose and transform the cholesterol in the blood and excrete it from the body.

2. Digestive system diseases

If you are visiting a patient with digestive system diseases, you can choose oranges and fresh dates. These fruits rich in vitamin C can increase appetite, promote digestion, and are especially beneficial for assisting liver cell regeneration in patients with liver disease. However, people with gastric ulcers or excessive stomach acid should not eat fruits containing large amounts of organic acids such as plums, hawthorns and lemons.

3. Respiratory system diseases

For patients with respiratory diseases, eating some fruits that have the effects of promoting salivation, resolving phlegm and relieving cough can help alleviate their condition. Pears, loquats, oranges, apricots, monk fruit, etc. have the functions of lowering qi, resolving phlegm, clearing the lungs and stomach. Jujubes can easily produce phlegm and increase heat, so eating them can easily worsen the condition of these patients.

4. Diabetes patients

Choosing fruits requires the most caution. You must give fruits that slowly increase blood sugar levels, such as cherries, bayberries, grapefruits, peaches, etc. Avoid giving fruits with high sugar content, such as dates, watermelons, bananas, lychees, hawthorns, etc.

In addition, the metabolism (biotransformation) of drugs in the human body is a process of oxidation, reduction, hydrolysis and combination under the catalysis of various biological enzymes. Many tropical fruits, such as mango, rambutan, passion fruit, kiwi, etc., contain ingredients that inhibit drug-metabolizing enzymes. If you eat them while you are sick and taking medicine, they will reduce the efficacy of some medicines. Therefore, you must be careful when eating them.