What can I eat after a cesarean section? What can I not eat after a cesarean section?

Generally, women who have undergone cesarean section need to stay in bed for a week and their diet should be more refined to facilitate wound healing. So, what can you eat after cesarean section? What can't you eat after cesarean section?

What can I eat after a cesarean section?

After a cesarean section, you should especially avoid some irritating foods, and your daily diet should be fine, with a combination of coarse and fine foods for a balanced nutrition.

The diet within one week after cesarean section should be light and nutritious, such as rice porridge, eggs, noodles, crucian carp soup... These are the best diets within one week after cesarean section:

1. Day 1: a cup of radish water, a cup of boiled water, and rice porridge.

The mother can eat only 6 hours after cesarean section when the intestines are discharged.

2. Day 2:

Breakfast: Homemade millet porridge, or boiled eggs in water, which is nutritious and tastes good;

Lunch: Millet porridge or soft noodles. Noodle soup can be crucian carp soup or something like that.

Dinner: white rice porridge (with a few lettuce leaves), radish soup, rice wine and eggs (add a little brown sugar to expel lochia, rice wine and eggs to increase milk production) and the Chinese medicine Rhizoma Lulutong (to clear the milk ducts).

3. Day 3:

Breakfast: white rice porridge (mix it with some millet), a meat bun stuffed with some fermented glutinous rice (don’t eat the meat filling, it has the effect of boosting milk secretion).

Lunch: White rice porridge (mixed with some millet).

Dinner: white rice porridge (mixed with some red dates), stir-fried chicken greens, and good luck.

4. Day 4

Breakfast: black rice porridge (with wolfberry) and a red bean paste bun.

Lunch: Crucian carp soup (to increase lactation), add an egg.

Dinner: Black fish soup (for wound recovery), stir-fried mushrooms with Chinese cabbage, red bean and white fungus soup

5. Day 5

Breakfast: rice porridge, a red bean paste bun

Lunch: Crucian carp soup with vegetables and noodles

Dinner: Black fish soup, stir-fried Chinese cabbage with black fungus, white rice porridge with a few red dates

6. Day 6

Breakfast: rice porridge, a red bean paste bun, half a steamed bun

Lunch: Rice porridge, crucian carp soup

Dinner: 2 large bowls of crucian carp soup, stir-fried greens, stir-fried Chinese cabbage, white rice porridge

7. Day 7

Breakfast: 1 red bean paste bun, 2 boiled eggs with fermented rice wine

Lunch: Black fish soup, crucian carp soup with steamed egg

Dinner: 3 bowls of crucian carp soup, stir-fried cabbage, white rice porridge

What not to eat after cesarean section

Foods that are easy to ferment and produce a lot of gas, such as sugars, soybeans, soy milk, starch, etc., should be eaten less or not to prevent abdominal distension. After the mother has passed gas through cesarean section, the diet can be changed from liquid to semi-liquid. The food should be nutritious and easy to digest, such as egg soup, porridge, noodles, etc. Then, according to the mother's physique, the diet can be gradually restored to normal. New mothers who have just undergone surgery should remember not to eat chicken soup, crucian carp soup and other greasy meat soups and lactation-promoting foods too early. They can be eaten 7-10 days after the operation.

What to do if the cesarean section wound is itchy

1. Do not remove the scab on the incision too early after surgery. Removing the scab too early and forcefully will take away the epidermal cells that are still in the repair stage, or even tear off the dermal tissue, and stimulate itching of the wound.

2. Apply some topical medications such as Fuqingsong, triamcinolone, dexamethasone, etc. to relieve itching.

3. Avoid sunlight to prevent ultraviolet stimulation and pigmentation.

4. Improve your diet and eat more fruits, eggs, lean meat, pork skin and other foods rich in vitamin C, E and essential amino acids. These foods can promote blood circulation and improve epidermal metabolism. Avoid eating spicy foods such as peppers, onions and garlic.

5. Keep the scar clean and hygienic, wipe off sweat in time, do not scratch it with your hands, rub the scar with clothes or use water to relieve itching, so as not to aggravate local irritation, promote inflammatory reaction of connective tissue, and cause further itching.