Is platelet abnormality related to diet?

Thrombocytopenia is easily triggered when there are fewer platelets in the human body. Thrombocytopenia patients have difficulty in clotting, and they have to be extra careful in their daily lives to avoid bleeding from injuries, which may be difficult to stop once they bleed. In addition to injuries and bleeding, if the diet is not appropriate, thrombocytopenia patients can also experience hemorrhage .

What are platelet abnormalities

1. It is common in infections, leukemia, aplastic anemia, and diseases such as thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, drug-immune thrombocytopenic purpura, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, and disseminated intravascular coagulation.

2. Platelets appear increased. Commonly found in chronic granulocytic leukemia, primary thrombocythemia, secondary thrombocythemia caused by splenectomy or trauma.

3. Abnormal platelet function. It is common in platelet akinesia, or secondary platelet function abnormalities caused by drugs, liver disease, uremia, and abnormal globulinemia.

How should I organize my diet for platelet abnormalities?

1. Consume more foods that benefit qi and replenish blood

This disease is prone to blood pressure loss, and when blood is lost, the body will become very weak and often pale. The common foods that replenish qi and nourish blood are jujubes, wolfberries, etc. Patients can consider drinking water with jujubes and wolfberries.

2. Consume more protein foods

On the one hand, protein is essential for the formation of cells, and on the other hand, protein can help strengthen the resistance. Consuming more protein-rich foods can help platelet cells regenerate. Generally speaking, egg products, dairy products and fish, chicken breast, beef, skinless chicken, duck and goose lean meat and other foods are rich in protein. People with low platelets are recommended to consume more of them.

3. Keep your diet light

Platelets are a bleeding disorder that can easily lead to bleeding conditions. Because spicy, easy to fire and other stimulating food, easy to stimulate the patient's stomach and intestines, resulting in the phenomenon of fire, serious will also lead to gastrointestinal bleeding, so the diet must ensure that the light without stimulation. The most important thing to remember is to eat more fruits and vegetables, drink more soup, and eat less greasy food that is high in salt and fat.

4. Do not eat cold, difficult to chew the food

The patient should maintain a warm and soft diet, in the pre-treatment of the disease, you should try to eat fluids, eat some porridge, soup and other foods, this kind of fluids on the stomach stimulation is small, but also conducive to digestion.

Daily protection

Daily protection reduces the tendency to bleed and lowers the risk of harm.

1. Patients should be careful in their daily lives and try to avoid bumps and injuries.

2. Pay attention to protect the nasal cavity, if the weather is dry, you can apply petroleum jelly to moisturize.

3. The patient should use a soft-bristled brush when brushing the teeth, and the action should be gentle. (You should not skip brushing because of bleeding to avoid infection due to oral bacteria).

4. Keep bowel movement smooth, eat more vegetables, bananas.

5. Pay attention to keep warm in case of cold and fever, which will lead to further reduction of platelets.

6. Normally, keep your mood relaxed, avoid excessive mental tension, maintain personal hygiene, prevent all kinds of infections and colds, and prevent trauma.

7. Pay attention to the combination of work and rest, avoid overwork, appropriate exercise, to walk, jogging or tai chi, etc., in order to enhance physical fitness. Usually avoid trauma to prevent bleeding or aggravate bleeding.

8. If you encounter acute episodes, you should rest in bed, strengthen the necessary protection, avoid trauma and cause bleeding, clothes should be soft, loose, so as not to aggravate the skin purpura.

9. If there is bleeding from the oral mucosa and gums, oral care should be strengthened. Prevent oral infections.

Zhang Yongzhi, director of Oncology I, deputy director of traditional Chinese medicine, graduated from the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Hebei North College, is currently a member of the Youth Committee of China Association for the Promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine Research, a member of the Professional Committee of Integrative Medicine of Beijing Society for Breast Cancer Prevention and Control, a member of the Standing Committee of Tumor Diagnostic Pathology and Precision Treatment of Hebei Province, the Secretary General of the Oncology Branch of Hengshui Association of Chinese Medicine, and the Deputy Chairman of the Hengshui Association of Traditional Medicine. He is also the secretary-general of Hengshui Chinese Medical Association Tumor Branch and the deputy director of Hengshui Anti-Cancer Association Traditional Medicine Specialty Committee. Over the past ten years, she has studied in Beijing China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing Oriental Hospital, Beijing Ditan Hospital and other hospitals for further training, which has enabled her to have profound theoretical foundation in the diagnosis and treatment of tumor diseases and rich clinical experience. She specializes in the treatment of malignant tumors and their complications, radiotherapy and chemotherapy by combining traditional Chinese and western medicines. Adverse reactions. He is skillful in carrying out minimally invasive techniques such as puncture biopsy, radiofrequency ablation and argon helium knife cryotherapy. He has won two provincial science and technology progress awards and has published several papers in core journals at the provincial level and above.