Diet taboos for promoting ovulation

There are only three types of food that 100% need to be strictly avoided during the ovulation promotion period - any food containing alcohol, raw or cold food that has not been thoroughly cooked, and foods that you are clearly allergic to. The rest of the taboos spread online such as "cannot eat ice, cannot eat spicy food, and cannot touch soy products" mostly do not have a unified clinical basis, so there is no need to be overly anxious.

First of all, these three red lines that cannot be touched are all real and have clinical risks, and there is no dispute. Needless to say, alcohol-containing foods, even if they are invisible alcohol-containing foods such as fermented glutinous rice dumplings, drunken shrimps and drunken crabs, and wine-filled chocolates, do not touch them. Alcohol will directly affect the development quality of oocytes. Previously, a sister ate less than half a bowl of fermented glutinous rice dumplings on the seventh day of ovulation induction. The next day, her estradiol test showed that her estradiol dropped by a hundred. Although the doctor later said that it was not necessarily an alcohol problem, she was so scared that she never dared to touch it again.

Then there are foods that are not thoroughly cooked, including sashimi, soft-boiled eggs, raw pickles, and unwashed raw salads. The main reason is to worry about listeria infection. Ordinary people may have diarrhea for two days after being infected. However, if the implantation is successful during ovulation, early listeria infection can easily lead to fetal arrest and miscarriage. There is no need to take this risk. Not to mention the foods you are allergic to. Hormone fluctuations during ovulation stimulation can easily weaken your immunity. If you are allergic, it will be more troublesome to take medication. If you endure it for two months, you will have everything.

When I was waiting in the reproductive department, I heard several sisters talking about how they dared not eat even an iced strawberry during ovulation induction, for fear of cooling the uterus, and some even dared not put soy sauce in for fear of pigmentation. I couldn't help but laugh and cry. When talking about the red line of public consensus, all the remaining opinions are actually valid, and there is no need to limit yourself.

Take the question "can you eat ice" that people ask the most? Most schools of traditional Chinese medicine recommend eating less, believing that cold food will cause uterine coldness and affect follicle development and subsequent implantation. However, many reproductive doctors in Western medicine have a very relaxed attitude: the ice you eat will warm to 37 degrees when it reaches the stomach, and can it directly cool the uterus? As long as you don't have diarrhea or stomachache when eating ice, you can eat it whenever you want. A nurse I know was doing her own ovulation treatment just in time for the hot weather. She ate a stick of crushed ice every day after get off work. Finally, she took 10 eggs and paired them into 7 high-quality embryos. Now the twins are almost two years old. Of course, if you usually get stomach upset when you drink iced milk tea, then don’t touch it. Frequent intestinal peristalsis caused by diarrhea may indeed stimulate the uterus.

There is also the myth that "you cannot eat soy products", saying that soy isoflavones are phytoestrogens and will conflict with ovulation-stimulating drugs and affect follicle development. If you do the math carefully, you will know how outrageous it is: in a 200ml cup of freshly ground soy milk, the content of soy isoflavones is only a few dozen milligrams. To reach the amount that can affect human hormone levels, you have to drink five or six liters of soy milk a day. Who would drink this on a daily basis? On the contrary, soy products are a high-quality source of plant protein. Supplementing more protein during ovulation induction can help follicles grow fuller. Several sisters around me who have successfully become pregnant regularly drink a cup of hot soy milk every morning during ovulation induction. Of course, if you have severe breast nodules and your attending doctor specifically tells you to avoid soy products, then just follow the doctor's advice. Individual situations are different.

As for whether you can eat spicy food, it depends on the person. If you are a Sichuan and Hunan girl who doesn't like spicy food, it won't be a problem to eat boiled fish or spicy duck neck during the ovulation promotion period. On the contrary, many people have a poor appetite due to hormone effects during the ovulation promotion period. Eating something spicy to appetize is better than eating nothing at all, which is not nutritious enough. But if you usually get constipation or get mouth ulcers when you eat spicy food, you'd better eat less. After all, the ovaries will be two or three times larger than usual during the post-ovulation period, and you're already prone to bloating, so constipation will only make you suffer more.

A little reminder that is not a taboo. In the later stage of ovulation induction, try not to eat too many foods that are prone to flatulence at one time, such as eating sweet potatoes and drinking carbonated drinks. This does not have any impact on the follicles, but if you eat a lot of gas when the ovaries are swollen, it will really make you not want to walk. It is purely your own fault.

I have seen too many sisters who are promoting ovulation. They eat in front of taboo lists found on the Internet every day. They dare not touch this or taste that. They are extremely stressed every day. On the contrary, their hormone levels are high and low, and the follicles are not growing smoothly. In fact, there are so many things to pay attention to when promoting ovulation. The core is balanced nutrition and a relaxed mood. If you are really unsure about what you can eat or not, just ask your attending doctor casually during your next follow-up visit. It will be much more effective than searching for half an hour of online posts.