Patients with hypothyroidism often have swollen hands and feet and gain weight due to mucinous edema. Too salty food will cause water and sodium retention and aggravate edema. Although hypothyroidism patients have less strict requirements on limiting salt intake than patients with nephropathy, they should also eat less salty foods such as pickles.
2. Suitable for eating mild food and fasting cold food.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that all kinds of food are cold and warm. As we all know, eating more spicy food is easy to get angry, and eating more cold drinks is easy to hurt the stomach. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that yang has the function of warming and nourishing the body and promoting the operation of qi and blood, while yang deficiency is cold. Patients with hypothyroidism are afraid of cold, like heat and weak, which are mostly caused by yang deficiency in traditional Chinese medicine, so they should eat warm tonic. Among meat products, dog meat, venison, mutton and beef are warm and nourishing, suitable for hypothyroidism patients in winter. From the point of view of modern medicine, thyroid function tends to be low when the intake of protein is insufficient. Supplying enough protein and heat can improve thyroid function. The leek and hawthorn in vegetables can warm the yang and strengthen the spleen, and the walnut kernel in melons and fruits can warm the kidney and strengthen the yang. Patients with hypothyroidism should eat more. But it is best to eat less cold products such as watermelon, cold drink, bitter gourd and chrysanthemum tea.
Iodine is the raw material for making thyroid hormone, and seafood is rich in iodine. Thyroid hormone deficiency in patients with hypothyroidism. Eating more seafood can not only promote the synthesis of thyroid hormone, but also soften hard lumps, which helps to inhibit goiter and nodules. Therefore, patients with hypothyroidism should eat more seafood, such as oysters, kelp, sea cucumber, shrimp, seaweed and so on. But crabs are not edible because they are cold. We usually eat crabs dipped in Jiang Mo to prevent them from getting cold. Because the gastrointestinal function of hypothyroidism patients is weakened, it is easy to have problems such as indigestion and bloating. Seafood is best steamed, which can not only keep the taste delicious, but also avoid greasy and reduce the burden on the stomach.
3. Rub hands and feet more to promote blood circulation.
Patients with hypothyroidism have poor peripheral circulation, easy cold hands and feet, and lack of temperature in limbs. When the weather is cold, these exposed body parts are more susceptible to cold. According to Chinese medicine, the twelve meridians, such as Yin Meridian and Yang Meridian, often meet in the fingers, and there are many acupoints on the hands. Regular rubbing and massage can not only move joints, help blood and meridians to be smooth, promote yang to keep warm and cold, but also help hypothyroidism patients to relieve the symptoms of hand edema and stiff fingers in the morning. This health care method is very simple, you can watch TV or take a car. People often say that the cold starts with the feet, and when the feet are protected, they will be warm. There is some scientific truth in this. Patients with hypothyroidism soak their feet in a pot of hot water for half an hour every night before going to bed, which can not only promote blood circulation, but also improve sleep. It has the same effect as the popular pedicure in society, and it can be said that it is a free family pedicure. The old actor who plays Xu Mao in the movie Xu Mao and His Daughter is over 80 years old, but his heart function test is better than that of people in their thirties and forties. The secret of his fitness is to keep doing homemade hand and leg exercises every day. Old friends might as well try.
4. Pay attention to keep warm in life, and do morning exercises sooner rather than later.
Patients with hypothyroidism have reduced body heat production, poor immunity and resistance, and are more likely to catch a cold than ordinary people, so they should pay more attention to cold protection and warmth.
The human body must adapt to the changes of yin and yang in the four seasons in order to maintain a harmonious balance with nature. In winter, it is freezing, and the plants and trees are dying. It is the season when everything in nature is hidden, and the yang of the human body should also be hidden inside. Due to thyroxine deficiency, hypothyroidism patients have low body temperature and seldom go out in the morning and evening. And the air quality in the early morning is the worst time of the day. For middle-aged and elderly people who have the habit of getting up early to exercise, they should try to postpone getting up early to avoid catching a cold. Exercise can dredge channels and collaterals, circulate qi and blood, and enhance the resistance and heat-producing ability of hypothyroidism patients, but attention should be paid to prevent excessive exercise, which is not only harmful to health, but also may induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in the elderly. Walking, cutting, back pounding and Tai Ji Chuan are very suitable for middle-aged and elderly patients with hypothyroidism.
Patients with hypothyroidism should not only have certain rules in diet and daily life, but also exercise more in daily life. This is also a kind of treatment, which will increase the immunity and resistance of patients with hypothyroidism and make them less likely to catch a cold and catch a cold.