What can't you eat if you have urticaria?

For patients with urticaria, they should not only actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment and use medications to suppress the rapid spread of the rash on the body, but also control their diet, because diet is also an important factor in inducing urticaria. In fact, urticaria is a systemic allergic reaction disease in a sense, and the physical symptoms presented by urticaria patients are somewhat similar to those of allergies. Next, I will explain to patients the foods that they should not eat when they have urticaria.

What can't you eat if you have urticaria?

Urticaria is a reactive allergic disease caused by various reasons. When stimulated by external factors, it causes a systemic allergic reaction. There are many causes of allergies, usually caused by urticaria patients not paying attention to their diet. So what can't you eat if you have urticaria?

1. Patients can accumulate their own life experience and combine it with allergens, especially the test results of serum specific antibodies, to understand the foods that may cause them allergies and strictly avoid them.

2. Try to avoid foods that may cause urticaria in daily life, such as seafood such as fish, shrimp, crab, shellfish, oysters, dried fruits such as walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds, mangoes, pineapples, strawberries, tomatoes, lychees, peaches, as well as eggs, milk, cheese, chocolate, as well as food preservatives and additives.

3. If the patient is in the acute stage of urticaria, he should also be careful to avoid consuming foods that have cross-ingredients or similar structures with sensitive foods. For example, if the patient is allergic to cream, cheese, and mushrooms, he may also be allergic to vinegar, soy sauce, mayonnaise, beer, etc.

4. If urticaria patients are allergic to penicillin, they should avoid eating dairy products because dairy products are more easily contaminated by penicillin.

5. Food containing food additives. Patients with urticaria should be careful to avoid artificial colors, preservatives, yeast and other ingredients contained in foods such as biscuits, soda, cold drinks, candy, cakes, bread and beer. If conditions permit, you can go to a treatment center for allergy testing to find out which foods you are allergic to or should not eat.

6. “Irritating foods”. The so-called "irritating things" refer to those things that can stir up wind and cause disease, generate poison, increase fire and encourage evil, which can easily induce old diseases and aggravate new ones. Common foods that cause allergies include meat, such as pork head, eggs, beef, mutton, dog meat, and goose meat; seafood, such as fish, shrimp, crab, etc.; vegetables, such as leek, bamboo shoots, spinach, mushrooms, etc.; fruits, such as mango, bayberry, and lychee; and condiments, such as onion, ginger, garlic, and pepper.

What should patients with urticaria eat?

1. Winter melon. Cool in nature, sweet in taste. It has the effects of clearing away heat and wind, detoxifying and relieving swelling, promoting body fluid and moisturizing the skin. Suitable for patients with wind-heat type urticaria.

2. Pumpkin. Warm in nature, sweet in taste. It has the effects of warming the middle and dispelling cold, tonifying the middle and replenishing Qi, strengthening the spleen and benefiting the stomach. It is suitable for patients with wind-cold type urticaria with weak spleen and stomach.

3. Water chestnut. It is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It has the effects of cooling blood and removing dampness, promoting fluid and moistening the lungs, reducing swelling and detoxifying. Suitable for patients with wind-heat type urticaria. Children should avoid eating it.

4. Job's tears. Cool in nature, sweet in taste. It has the effects of relieving heat and dampness, reducing inflammation and healing ulcers, moisturizing the skin and removing freckles. It is suitable for patients with urticaria caused by warm and heat accumulation.

In fact, in addition to dietary therapy, you can also use some folk remedies to treat urticaria. What are some folk remedies for treating urticaria?

Urticaria folk remedies

1. Select 500 grams of Chinese cabbage, wash off the mud and sand, shake off the water, grab 3-5 pieces each time and rub them on the affected area, which will cool and refresh your heart. Use it once in the morning and once in the evening every day, and you will be cured after using it 3 times without recurrence.

2. Select fresh loofah leaves, wash them with clean water and set aside. Apply them more than 10 times continuously to cure the disease without recurrence.

3. Select 30 grams of black sesame seeds and 15-30 grams of rice wine. Crush the sesame seeds, put them in a cup, add rice wine, cover it, and steam it in a pot for about 15 minutes. Take sesame wine once before going to bed. Take 1 dose daily for 1 week.

4. After soaking the mushrooms, cut them into shreds and add lean minced meat and rice to cook. It has a relieving effect on the treatment of childhood urticaria, chronic gastritis and other diseases.

5. Choose 15 grams of corn silk and 100 grams of fermented glutinous rice. Put corn silk in an aluminum pot, add appropriate amount of water, cook for 20 minutes, remove the corn silk, add fermented rice wine, boil and eat.

6. Use 100 ml of vinegar, 60 grams of papaya and 9 grams of ginger. Boil the three ingredients in a casserole together. When the vinegar is dry, take out the papaya and ginger. Take 2 times a day, morning and evening, until recovery.

7. Select 5 cicada shells and 250 grams of duckweed from the pond, decoct them in water and take them twice a day (once in the morning and once in the evening). The patient recovered after taking three doses of the medicine and there was no recurrence.