Contact dermatitis dietary taboos

First, absolutely avoid foods that you are clearly allergic to and that will aggravate your rash after eating them.； Second, try to reduce the intake of high histamine and highly irritating foods during the acute phase. There is no uniform list of taboos that applies to everyone. Blindly imposing all taboos may slow down the recovery process.

During the six months I stayed in the dermatology clinic, the most exaggerated patient I encountered was Aunt Zhang, who worked as a housekeeper. She had a red spot with oozing on the back of her hand, which was so itchy that she couldn't sleep all night. When she came to the doctor, she said that she had been abstaining from food for half a month and dared not eat anything except white rice and boiled cabbage, not even eggs. As a result of the allergen screening, it was found that she was not allergic to food at all. The allergen was the velvet rubber gloves she wore every day, which was equivalent to starving for half a month. Due to insufficient nutrition, the rash recovered nearly a week slower than other patients.

Regarding the taboos for contact dermatitis, there are indeed differences in the views of Chinese and Western medicine. There is no need to argue about right and wrong. Traditional Chinese medicine often recommends avoiding pungent and warm "eating foods" during the acute phase, such as white wine, chili peppers, mutton, and dog meat. It is believed that such foods will "aggravate the heat toxin" and prolong the course of the disease. ； The logic of modern Western medicine is more biased toward individual adaptation. There is no unified list of taboos. All taboos are based on "whether the individual has adverse reactions after eating them." If you believe what Chinese medicine says, there is no harm in avoiding the acute phase. If you don't have any reaction after eating these, there will be no problems if you eat them normally.

Of course, there are also some foods that are highly likely to be avoided. This does not mean that you should not touch them at all, but it is just that you should be more careful before eating them during an attack. For example, foods with high levels of histamine, such as leftover seafood that has been stored for two or three days, hard cheese that has been fermented for a long time, fermented bean curd, natto, and cured fish and bacon that have been pickled for more than half a year. These foods have high levels of free histamine. When contact dermatitis occurs, the skin itself releases histamine to mediate the inflammatory reaction. Ingesting too much additional histamine can easily aggravate the itching. Many people say that they get unbearable itching when eating seafood. It may not be that they are allergic to seafood. It may be that the seafood you bought is not fresh enough and you just happened to eat it during the onset of the attack, causing an allergic reaction.

There are also highly irritating foods, which are basically recognized by both Chinese and Western medicine and should be avoided. For example, high-alcohol liquor, spicy Chongqing hot pot, a mouthful of rattan pepper fish that makes Tianling Gai numb, and three or four cups of strong coffee and energy drinks a day. These things will quickly expand the capillaries at the end of the skin. Originally, your erythema will be very hot. When the blood flow increases after eating, the redness will become more obvious and the itching will become more severe. Last summer, I got contact dermatitis on my neck from wearing an unqualified metal necklace. I didn’t believe it and I ate some spicy crayfish. That night, my neck was so swollen that I couldn’t even put on a turtleneck T-shirt. I was itchy for three days. This is really a lesson learned from my own experience.

Don't listen to others who say that eggs, milk, and soy products are harmful to your health. Unless you really feel uncomfortable eating them, these high-quality proteins can actually help repair the skin barrier. There was an 18-year-old girl who got facial contact dermatitis due to using a low-quality facial mask. She heard on the Internet that she should avoid food. She didn't touch meat, eggs, or milk for three months. The rash finally disappeared, but her hair fell so badly that even her aunt delayed her treatment for half a month. It was totally not worth the loss.

Oh yes, there is another special case that needs to be mentioned separately. If you have contact dermatitis that is clearly allergic to metal nickel - the kind of person who will get rashes when wearing alloy necklaces or cheap earrings, then you should pay extra attention to eating less foods with high nickel content, such as cocoa, chocolate, nuts, canned foods, and acidic foods cooked in stainless steel pots for a long time. The nickel content in these foods is relatively high. Eating too much may aggravate allergic reactions, so other people don't need to join in this taboo.

To be honest, contact dermatitis is essentially an allergic reaction caused by skin contact with external allergens. Diet is only an auxiliary factor, not the core cause of the disease. There is really no need to follow a list of taboos every day. Why not just take a small memo and remember what you have eaten and your rash becomes obviously itchy and red next time. Just avoid it next time. Eat the rest if you need to. Your nutrition will keep up and your skin will repair quickly. You can't even eat something that is hot and delicious just because of a rash, right?