What should I pay attention to in my diet for conjunctivitis?

Conjunctivitis is a very common disease in daily life, which can cause great harm to the patient's eyes. Therefore, special attention should be paid to daily care and diet, and the eyes should be kept clean at all times. Patients with conjunctivitis should pay attention to supplementing vitamin A and vitamin C, avoid alcohol, spicy foods such as ginger, and eat more light and nutritious foods. Only in this way can conjunctivitis recover quickly.

1. Conjunctivitis

Conjunctivitis is an infectious eye disease caused by bacterial or viral infection. Commonly known as "pink eye". Whenever summer and autumn come, it is the epidemic season of this disease. When the disease occurs, there is photophobia, tearing, stinging and thin secretions. At the same time, the eyelids are swollen and the conjunctiva becomes red due to blood vessels and bleeding. This is the origin of the name of pink eye. If not treated in time, it will turn into chronic conjunctivitis.

Second, the diet for conjunctivitis needs to pay attention to the following points

1. Patients with conjunctivitis should supplement vitamin C

Protects the eye from further inflammation while also promoting tissue recovery.

2. Patients with conjunctivitis should avoid eating ginger

People with eye inflammation should not eat ginger. People with eye inflammation should eat cool and heat-dispersing foods, and avoid warm, spicy and dispersing foods. Ginger is warm and spicy, which can both increase heat and damage yin fluid. If people with eye inflammation eat it, it will aggravate the condition.

3. Patients with conjunctivitis should avoid alcohol

In traditional Chinese medicine, conjunctivitis is caused by wind-heat or gastrointestinal heat invading the liver meridian and attacking the eyes. Drinking alcohol (including various spirits, rice wine, fruit wine, rice wine, beer, etc.) can help evil heat and toxic gases, just like fanning the flames; at the same time, drinking alcohol can also damage the liver yin, making the liver meridian empty, making it easier for wind-heat and evil toxins to invade, thereby prolonging the course of the disease.

4. Patients with conjunctivitis should supplement vitamin A

People with conjunctivitis can take vitamin A daily, which helps disperse the Bitot's white spots, which may be caused by a vitamin A deficiency.

5. Patients with conjunctivitis should avoid spicy food

Spicy foods such as scallions, onions, leeks, artemisia, mustard, etc. can warm the yang and help eliminate wind-heat evil, and can also consume the yin of the lungs and stomach, aggravating the accumulated heat in the lungs and stomach, making the wind-heat evil and the accumulated heat in the lungs and stomach difficult to remove, which is not conducive to the early recovery of this disease.

6. Patients with conjunctivitis should avoid spicy, stimulating foods that promote yang and heat, such as chili peppers, pepper, curry beef, curry chicken, fried cakes, fried peanuts, fried spicy broad beans, etc. Avoid eating raw, cold, greasy and fishy foods, such as frozen fruit juice, cold soda, fatty pork, sour fish, shrimps, crabs, etc. Smoking and drinking strong tea, strong coffee, etc. are prohibited.

7. It is suitable to eat light, easily digestible and nutritious food, such as lean pork, pork liver, rabbit meat, lamb, etc. Eat more fresh fruits, such as bananas, pears, apples, cantaloupes, grapes, star fruits, longan meat, etc. It is advisable to drink fruit juice, clarified juice, glucose, etc.