With the improvement of living standards, people pay more and more attention to diet health while satisfying their appetite. Especially after illness, more attention is paid to diet conditioning.
After the doctor writes the prescription, he usually gives a few instructions about diet precautions.
- If you are a patient with hyperthyroidism, the doctor may ask you to eat a light diet, avoid iodine and avoid irritation and spicy food. If you are a patient after thyroid cancer surgery, the doctor’s dietary advice may be to eat less spicy, raw and cold, hair products and cruciferous vegetables.
However, if you think about it carefully, is what the hair? Why avoid spicy? There are so many cruciferous families, all of which are avoided. Is there any food to eat? Is there any scientific basis for the doctor’s casual diet advice?
Please don’t deprive me of the right to eat spicy food.
Spicy is not a taste, but a pain experience of oral cavity and throat mucosa.
Spicy foods in a broad sense include chili, prickly ash, mustard, pepper, scallion and ginger, etc.
In addition to hyperthyroidism, other thyroid patients, there is no need to avoid spicy! (There is no spicy or unpleasant feeling in the central and western regions. Do friends who like onion and garlic in the northeast breathe a sigh of relief? )
For patients with hyperthyroidism, spicy diet will not aggravate the disease, but may aggravate discomfort symptoms. For example:
- I was afraid of being hot and sweaty, and after eating spicy food, I was sweating on my forehead. I couldn’t sleep at all. I ate spicy dinner and couldn’t calm down before going to bed. I already had diarrhea. After eating chili, my stomach and intestines moved even more [jubilant].
Therefore, from the perspective of their own comfort, hyperthyroidism patients who cannot bear the pain of chili should eat less.
In addition, friends with gastrointestinal diseases, hemorrhoids, pharyngolaryngitis, tonsillitis and other diseases should also eat less spicy food as far as possible to avoid discomfort.
If you don’t give me meat to eat, how can the incision heal?
The folk saying is that foods that can induce or aggravate disease symptoms are called [hair products].
There are many kinds of [hair], and the definitions vary from region to region. People often talk about the following kinds of [hair]:
- Meat and fishy products: pig, beef, mutton, duck, seafood, etc. Irritant food: chili, leek, onion and garlic, etc. Vegetarian: mushrooms, bean sprouts, mustard, pumpkin, etc.
In fact, in modern medicine, there is no such thing as hair. All healthy and nutritious food should be eaten, and the diet should be diversified, and one should not avoid this or that.
For example, patients after thyroid surgery should have taken in sufficient protein. If they dare not eat pig, cow, sheep and duck meat because of scruples about [hair], how can the surgical incision heal as soon as possible? Therefore, eat meat when it is time to eat meat!
However, patients with thyroid diseases should not eat too much seafood, especially hyperthyroidism patients. It is not because seafood is [hair], but because the iodine content is high.
Remember, don’t take your medicine with soya-bean milk.
Bean products mainly refer to soybean and soybean products, such as soybean milk, tofu, etc.
You may hear that soybean isoflavones rich in soybean have adverse effects on thyroid function and may lead to goiter.
At present, the conclusion of scientific research is that under normal and balanced diet conditions, soybean products have little effect on thyroid gland of healthy people.
In other words, people without thyroid diseases can eat soybeans and soybean products normally without worrying about thyroid problems.
As to whether soybean products will aggravate the condition of hypothyroidism patients, the current scientific research has not yet reached a conclusion.
However, one thing is certain, that is, do not use soy milk or soy milk to take levothyroxine sodium tablets, because it will interfere with the absorption of drugs.
Don’t kill the cruciferous family with one stick.
Cruciferous vegetables include cauliflower, cabbage, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, pakchoi, green vegetables, rape, mustard, pickled mustard tuber, turnip, radish, shepherd’s purse, etc.
It covers almost all the common vegetables! If thyroid patients really can’t eat cruciferae, there is really nothing to eat…
Studies have shown that thioxazolidine and thiocyanate in cruciferae will compete with thyroid gland for iodine, thus reducing thyroid gland’s intake of iodine and eventually reducing thyroid hormone synthesis, leading to goiter.
However, this effect only occurs when the concentration of thiocyanate in plasma is relatively high, which is equivalent to eating 500-1000 grams of raw broccoli, radish or cabbage in a short period of time. The average person certainly cannot do it.
Therefore, thyroid patients can rest assured to eat cruciferous vegetables, except for the following types of patients:
- “Endemic goiter: The disease was originally caused by iodine deficiency, Cruciferae will prevent thyroid gland from taking iodine, Therefore, this kind of patients should not eat more. In fact, after the implementation of the salt iodization policy, the disease has basically disappeared. Before receiving iodine 131 treatment: some patients with hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer may need to receive iodine 131 treatment, because cruciferae will hinder thyroid iodine intake and affect the therapeutic effect of iodine 131, so eat less cruciferae before receiving iodine 131 treatment.
When eating cruciferous vegetables, it is best to cook the vegetables, which is conducive to reducing thiocyanate and retaining more isothiocyanate. Isothiocyanate has certain antioxidant and anti-tumor effects and is very beneficial to the body.
If you are weak, you should avoid being cold.
Raw and cold refers to raw and cold food, such as some cold dishes and cold drinks.
Raw and cold food may cause gastrointestinal discomfort, so it is recommended to eat less raw and cold food for hypothyroidism patients with weakened gastrointestinal function.
The joy of life lies in eating and drinking.
Having said so much, I’d like to give you a brief summary:
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Whether hyperthyroidism patients should avoid spicy food depends entirely on individuals. If you don’t feel uncomfortable after eating spicy food, you don’t have to avoid it.
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If the gastrointestinal function of hypothyroidism patients is not very good, they can eat less raw and cold food. Patients with hypothyroidism with good gastrointestinal function please feel free.
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For patients who take levothyroxine sodium tablets, please take the medicine with clear water and eat other things after taking the medicine for half an hour.
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Patients with hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer who need iodine 131 treatment should eat less cruciferous vegetables before treatment. Please feel free after treatment.
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Iodine is not allowed for hyperthyroidism and iodine is not allowed before iodine 131 treatment. These principles remain unchanged.
In addition, everyone can eat whatever they want, and they should eat happily, richly and healthily. The purpose of our article has been achieved.