After surgery? Taboo? Does this make sense?
Postoperative patients often ask me: Do I need to avoid eating? ? Or ask:? Doctor, can I eat XXX? ? The frequency of this problem is enough to show that China people attach importance to taboo issues and the theory of traditional Chinese medicine is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
We should look at this problem dialectically. For some diseases, such as allergic diseases, some foods are really inedible. Some people are allergic to milk, while others are allergic to eggs or prawns. Do people with these food allergy diseases really need to be allergic to specific foods? Taboo? .
For the operation of internal organs, is it sometimes necessary after the operation? Taboo? For example, in order to give the intestine a time to recover its function after intestinal surgery, it is not allowed to eat for a short time.
However, many plastic surgery on the body surface are often performed by doctors and nurses. Taboo? Many patients consciously follow the doctor's advice? Taboo? Including not eating spicy food and allergic food (Chinese medicine says? Hair? )。 Some people don't eat soy sauce or drink alcohol. They may think that these foods will affect wound healing.
I think these? Taboo? But it may not mean anything. This view comes from my many years of medical experience.
For example, many people think that onions and garlic are? Hair? It's irritating food. I can't eat it after surgery, but I worked in southern California for a while when I was studying in the United States. There are many Latin Americans there. They especially like to eat onions and garlic, and they also eat them after surgery. According to my observation, after eating these foods, their wounds healed without any problems, neither inflammation nor excessive scar hyperplasia.
Many people also think that shrimp and fish are? Hair? However, these two things are essential for the Japanese living in the island country. After the operation, they ate all these foods without any adverse consequences.
The reason for not eating soy sauce after operation is even more interesting. It is said that soy sauce will lead to the blackening of pigment after wound healing, but in fact, if soy sauce can lead to the blackening of skin, then according to the intake of soy sauce in China, our skin color should be no different from that in Africa now. In fact, skin pigmentation has nothing to do with soy sauce.
As for the statement that you don't eat stimulating foods such as peppers and drink stimulating drinks such as alcohol after surgery, it doesn't make much sense in medicine. We use alcohol to disinfect the skin, and we also use alcohol to disinfect the wound when changing the medicine, but the alcohol that directly touches the wound has no effect on the healing of the skin or the proliferation of scars.
From a scientific point of view, in most cases, for plastic surgery body surface surgery, taboo? There is no scientific basis and there is not much need. The patient has a bad appetite after the operation, and he can satisfy himself by eating something palatable. We don't need to bind ourselves or even scare ourselves with some time-honored habits, but we should gradually change our medical concepts with a scientific attitude.