What dietary taboos should you pay attention to when eating snakes?

Let me tell you the most practical conclusion first - there is currently no authoritative evidence-based medical evidence that can prove that certain foods can directly aggravate herpes zoster (that is, what we often call "raw snakes"), or prolong the course of the disease. There are various "food taboos" posted on the Internet, most of which are summaries of traditional folk experience, and there is no unified medical standard.

I met a 28-year-old young man in the clinic last week. He was born with snakes for just five days. He had been on a strict diet for almost a week. He didn't even dare to touch chicken, duck, fish, eggs, and milk. He only had white porridge with vegetables. When he came for a follow-up examination, he was walking unsteadily. I asked him that he was afraid that eating "hair products" would make herpes worse. Looking at his recovery, it turned out that his recovery was not as fast as that of the 62-year-old aunt in the ward who drank a bowl of steamed lean meat soup every day.

Speaking of which, why do people have the impression that "raw snakes should be avoided"? In fact, going back a few decades, people's nutritional conditions were generally not good, and few people did systematic allergen screening. Many people were sensitive to foreign proteins such as seafood and beef and mutton. They were prone to itching and rashes when they ate them. If they ate it just in time for a snake to have a rash, they naturally put the blame on the food. It gradually became known that snakes should not touch these things.

Of course, this does not mean that you can just eat whatever you want. We have indeed encountered many clinical reports from patients. During the days when the rash was most painful, they ate spicy hot pot, drank high-alcohol liquor, or ate a lot of heavy food such as fried skewers. The sensation will be significantly aggravated. This is not caused by any "hairy substances". The main reason is that spicy, irritating, high-fat and high-sugar things will expand local blood vessels and aggravate the inflammatory reaction in the skin lesions. The nerves are already swollen and painful. Once the blood vessels are congested, the discomfort will naturally double. There are also friends who are allergic to foods such as mangoes, seafood, and nuts. They should avoid snakes regardless of whether they are raw or not. It has nothing to do with the disease itself.

A while ago, an old patient came for a follow-up visit and said that when he first got the rash, he couldn't help but eat a bowl of very spicy beef noodles. The pain kept him awake for half the night that night. After drinking porridge with steamed eggs for two days, the pain gradually subsided. Do you think this is a problem with the beef? He usually eats ten bowls of beef noodles and is fine. The problem lies in that spoonful of spicy chili oil.

I really want to talk about precautions. In fact, you don’t need to exclude one by one from the list of foods on the Internet, just follow your own body’s feelings. If you usually eat food that does not react, just make it lighter and eat normally. Instead, you should add more high-quality protein to help improve your immunity. After all, raw snake itself is caused by the activation of the virus when the immunity is weakened. If you drink white porridge every day and cannot keep up with the nutrition, the immunity will not be improved, but the recovery will be slower. There is no need to suffer this double felony.