Conjunctivitis diet

The causative factors of conjunctivitis are mainly divided into two types: infectious and pulmonary infectious. The symptoms are characterized by foreign body sensation in the affected eye, burning sensation, heavy eyelids, and increased secretions. In addition to using regular treatment methods, there are also many things to pay attention to in daily diet. Improper diet may affect recovery from the disease. So, what are the dietary taboos for conjunctivitis? Let’s take a look below.

1. Sea-smelling foods

There are many types of seafood, including fish, shellfish, shrimp, crab and so on. However, yellow croaker, eel, rubber fish, mandarin fish, eel, black fish, bream, crab, shrimp, etc. are fishy and smelly, which will cause the wind-heat evil to become more severe and the heat toxicity to become more abundant in the body, bringing unnecessary trouble to treatment and recovery.

2. Wine

This disease is caused by wind-heat evil toxins 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.

3. 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.

Conjunctivitis diet precautions

1. Patients with conjunctivitis should supplement vitamin C: it protects the eyes from further inflammation and also promotes 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 evil 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 every day. Vitamin A helps disperse Bitot's white spots, which may be caused by a lack of vitamin A.

5. Patients with conjunctivitis should avoid spicy foods: Spicy foods such as scallions, onions, leeks, artemisia, mustard, etc. can warm the yang and help the wind-heat evil, and can 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 the 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.