Basedow’s disease

Useful foods for Graves’ disease

Since in this disease there are disturbances in the metabolic processes of the body, due to which weight decreases and muscle atrophy often appears, it is necessary to include a large amount of vitamins, amino acids, thiamine and especially carbohydrates in the patient’s diet.

Foods that a patient can eat in unlimited quantities:

• seafood, namely fish and seaweed;
• vegetables: carrots, tomatoes, potatoes;
• fruits and berries: pineapples, bananas, apples, all citrus fruits, wild strawberries, strawberries;
• onion garlic;
• chicken egg yolks;
• rice, buckwheat and oatmeal.

This entire list of products will help strengthen the body, muscle tissue, improve the performance of the heart muscle, replenish the amount of glycogen in the liver, and give balance. Fiber will help restore metabolic processes and relieve constipation (in most cases, patients suffer from them).

You need to eat fractionally and at least 5 times a day (in small, but high-calorie portions). All meals should be stewed, either cooked or steamed.

It is better to eat meat dishes in moderation and should not be prepared from meat of low-fat varieties (dietary): chicken, rabbit, nutria, young veal.

As for iodine-containing products (except for sea fish and cabbage), you should be careful and consult your doctor from time to time after passing laboratory tests). It all depends on its level and stage of the disease.

Nutritionists advise patients with Graves’ disease to increase the energy value of food by 25-30% of the norm. This is due to sudden weight loss, which must be stopped and then eradicated as early as possible.

Traditional medicine for Graves’ disease

Treatment of Graves’ disease is aimed at eliminating toxic effects and restoring the normal functioning of systems and organs that have suffered from the negative effects of thyroid hormones.

The following folk recipes will help with this:

1. 1 A decoction of cocklebur herb (common). Take 2 tablespoons of grass (it must be fresh and chopped), poured with 400 milliliters of hot water, insist half an hour. Filtered. You need to take 6 tablespoons of spoons per day (for 6 receptions).
2. 2 Infusion of walnut inner partitions. 15 grams of crushed partitions are poured into 1/5 liter of boiled hot water, wait until it cools, filter. This is the daily rate, which must be divided into 2 doses. Consume ½ hour before meals.
3. 3 Add fruits and decoctions from feijoa leaves to the diet. The fruits can be eaten both fresh and in the form of jam, preserves. The most useful jam is made from chopped fruits, ground with sugar (the proportion should be 1 to 1). Then the mass is placed in steamed jars and stored in the refrigerator. Without going through heat treatment, all the beneficial properties of feijoa are preserved. The infusion is prepared from 2 tablespoons of crushed leaves, which are poured with 2 glasses of boiling water, infused for 30-40 minutes, filtered. Drink twice a day for a glass. You can add some honey.
4. 4 Also, you should drink decoctions from: motherwort, strawberries, valerian, nettle, hop cones, hawthorn. Herbs can be combined into fees.
5. 5 With frequent constipation, you need to eat seaweed or drink powder (drink half a teaspoon of powder with water). Take 20 minutes before meals, three times a day, for a month.

Dangerous and harmful foods for Graves’ disease

• baked goods made from white flour;
• excess sugar and sweets;
• coffee, strong tea;
• alcohol;
• fried, fatty foods;
• canned food and various kinds of semi-finished products, fast food;
• water with gases.

It is necessary to completely exclude from the patient’s diet:

• legumes (beans, lentils, peas, beans);
• radish, turnip, radish;
• mushrooms

All these products irritate the intestinal mucosa, which complicates the work of the stomach – there is an increased load (it suffers without it). Also, they excite the nervous system, which is already shattered.

In addition, you should never smoke, take sun, sea, hydrogen sulfide baths.

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