What should be paid attention to in the daily diet of patients with glaucoma? The disease is divided into three treatment and seven nutrition, which is the same for patients with glaucoma. Food accounts for a lot of the "nourishment". So, do you understand the five dietary taboos of glaucoma? How to eat right?
Five dietary taboos of glaucoma
1. Avoid heavy taste food
Glaucoma patients do not need to avoid eating, diet should be light. To avoid high-fat, high sugar food, eat foods rich in vitamins (such as vegetables, fruits, coarse grains, etc.). Glaucoma patients do not need "big tonic" after surgery. First, the surgery is small, and the body is basically without loss; second, an effective drainage channel of aqueous humor should be established after surgery, and the filtered wound should not heal too fast, especially for those with scar constitution, the diet should be light.
2. Avoid irritant food
Strong tea, coffee, alcohol and other stimulating drinks can excite the central nervous system, reflexively cause the acceleration of blood flow, increase intraocular pressure, which is harmful to the condition of glaucoma. Spicy and other stimulating food. For example, pepper, mustard, pepper, garlic, ginger, and ketchup are helpful to heat up the fire, and the consumption of glaucoma patients will aggravate the disease.
3. Avoid fat meat
It is easy to cause the hardening of blood vessels, the decrease of elasticity of blood vessels, and the increase of intraocular pressure in patients with glaucoma.
4. Avoid drinking a lot of water
After drinking a lot of water, a large amount of water is absorbed by the human body, but the aqueous humor in the eye increases with it. The normal people can regulate it by accelerating metabolism and excreting the extra aqueous humor. However, due to the dysfunction of filtering curtain, the aqueous humor is discharged abnormally, which makes the intraocular pressure rise.
Glaucoma patients should not drink more water, to pay attention to control the amount of water, generally not more than 500 ml of water each time. Because too much drinking water at one time will lead to blood dilution and decrease of plasma osmolality, which is the relative increase of aqueous humor and increase of intraocular pressure.
5. Avoid alcohol and tobacco
Glaucoma patients must quit smoking, because smoking will increase the importance of nerve damage. For patients with glaucoma who have the habit of drinking, if their face turns red (capillary dilation) after drinking, they can drink some red wine appropriately, which should be no more than 50 ml per day. Do not drink alcohol if you have a blue or white complexion (vasoconstriction).
These are the five dietary taboos of glaucoma patients. When they receive medical treatment, they should also control their diet.
