What should pregnant women eat to reduce salt intake?

Some pregnant mothers have excessive moisture in their bodies due to various reasons during pregnancy. Excessive moisture not only affects the pregnant mothers themselves, but also the baby in the belly. Therefore, pregnant mothers must pay attention to excessive moisture and get rid of it as soon as possible.

What should pregnant women eat when they have heavy moisture?

1. Pay attention to a light diet

The gastrointestinal system has a great influence on the metabolism of body nutrition and water, so a balanced and scientific diet is very important. Pregnant mothers with heavy moisture should eat less milk, greasy food, sweets, fried foods, cold fruits and other foods that are not conducive to gastrointestinal digestion and absorption.

If you eat greasy food such as fatty and sweet food, it will be difficult to digest and easily cause bloating and inflammation of the stomach and intestines. Sweets and fried foods will cause the body to produce peroxides, which will aggravate the inflammatory response. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that raw and cold foods, ice cream or cold vegetables and fruits will stagnate the digestion and absorption function of the stomach and intestines, so it is not advisable to eat them in unlimited quantities. For example, it is best to add onions and ginger when cooking lettuce salad, watermelon, cabbage, bitter melon, etc. to reduce the cold nature of the vegetables.

2. Reduce salt intake

People with a strong taste are more prone to dampness, because if there is too much salt in the body, it will increase the burden on the kidneys, spleen and stomach, and affect the metabolism of water in the body. Therefore, it is recommended that pregnant mothers use less salt when cooking, and add ingredients such as onions and ginger when cooking to help remove moisture.

3. Eat foods that remove dampness

Some foods can help us get rid of dampness, such as red beans, coix seed, and Poria cocos. Drinking soup or water has a good effect on removing dampness, such as Poria cocos pork bone soup, red bean porridge, Tremella and lotus seed syrup, etc. Drinking in summer can not only remove dampness, but also help clear away heat and detoxify. But it should be noted that although coix seed is a food with a good effect on removing dampness, it is very cold and should not be eaten by pregnant mothers.

Symptoms of heavy humidity

If you always feel very tired during pregnancy, have a sticky mouth, poor appetite, heavy limbs, especially heavy calves after getting up every morning, feel nauseous and want to vomit when brushing your teeth, always feel something unclean in your throat, have sticky stools, sticky and uncomfortable skin, or even rashes on your skin, it means that there is dampness in your body.

What is the reason for heavy moisture in pregnant women?

Dampness in pregnant women refers to the phenomenon of heavy dampness during pregnancy. Dampness is a concept in traditional Chinese medicine, which believes that diseases are more likely to occur when the human body has heavy dampness. Dampness can be divided into internal dampness and external dampness. External dampness is mostly caused by sitting or lying in wet places when the climate is humid, while internal dampness is caused by liking to eat cold drinks, eating raw and cold fruits and other cold things, which damages the body's yang energy. Heavy dampness is obviously not good for physical health, especially for expectant mothers who need special treatment, because heavy dampness caused by weather or bad living habits will damage the body, and we expectant mothers should pay more attention.

What fruits can't be eaten if the body is damp?

People with heavy dampness should not eat cool fruits such as watermelon, melon, pear, tangerine, orange, banana, mulberry, persimmon, dragon fruit, star fruit, mangosteen, strawberry, loquat, cherry tomatoes, kiwi, kiwi, melon, grapefruit and other fruits.