What should I eat to supplement low platelets? Eat more of these foods

If a child has anemia, you should pay attention to whether it is low platelet count. Low platelet count has a great impact on children. You should pay attention to diet therapy and eat more high-protein foods. Lean meat, fish, and eggs are the first choice in your daily diet.

1. Patients with thrombocytopenia should be provided with a high-protein diet, and more foods such as milk, lean meat, fish, eggs, and beans should be included in the diet. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that heat in the blood will cause reckless behavior, and for those with bleeding caused by heat, it is advisable to choose foods that are cold in nature. Vegetables and fruits are neutral and cool in nature, and are beneficial for stopping bleeding. They can be used in diet, especially water chestnuts, lotus roots, shepherd's purse, black fungus, pears, and fresh dates.

2. If purpura patients also have anemia , they should eat iron-rich foods in their diet, such as animal liver, pork stomach, poultry gizzard, lean meat, and egg yolk. Vegetables with high iron content such as amaranth, rapeseed, shepherd's purse, celery, kohlrabi, day lily, amaranth, spinach, tomato, etc. can be eaten frequently. Gluten, wheat bran, white fungus, mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, etc. can also be used in cooking dishes.

3. When the bleeding of thrombocytopenia patients is small and gradually stops , the diet for thrombocytopenia should be based on the principles of strengthening the spleen, replenishing qi and absorbing blood. At this time, choose red dates and peanuts (with peanuts) as medicinal foods to prepare medicinal meals and dishes, or chew them in appropriate amounts every day. Figs and raisins can also be eaten frequently.

4. For those who suffer from long-term illness, qi deficiency, fatigue and weakness , the diet for thrombocytopenia can also include astragalus, red dates, yam, peanuts, wolfberry, longan meat, Codonopsis pilosula, lotus root nodes, Eclipta prostrata, Agrimoniae, sheep bones, peanut skins, black beans, pig skin, lentils, walnut kernels and other medicinal and edible products. They can be used to make porridge, stew or decoction, which is especially suitable for elderly people with thrombocytopenic purpura.