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Dietary principles after induced abortion
After an induced abortion, proper food quantity, quality, and combination must still be carefully arranged to meet the body’s needs for protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, inorganic salts, water, and fiber. To promote recovery, dietary adjustments should focus on the following points:
(1) Protein is a key component of antibodies; inadequate intake reduces immunity. For the first half month post-abortion, provide 1.5–2 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight daily (about 100–150 grams). Include more chicken, lean pork, eggs, dairy, and soy products.
(2) After surgery, the body is weak and prone to sweating. Hydration should be small and frequent to reduce fluid loss. Sweat excretes water-soluble vitamins, especially vitamin C, B1, and B2. Thus, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits. This also helps prevent constipation.
(3) Moderately limit fat intake on a regular diet. Control fat to about 80 grams daily for the first week. Women with menstrual irregularities should avoid stimulants like chili, alcohol, vinegar, pepper, ginger—these increase uterine congestion and menstrual flow. Also avoid cold foods like crab, freshwater snail, and clam.
How to nourish after abortion
Post-abortion dietary nourishment significantly impacts women’s health. Abortion damages the body, causes blood loss, and brings psychological stress and physical pain, leaving the body weak. Some may even develop anemia. Therefore, proper nourishment is essential. Duration and extent depend on individual constitution and blood loss.
First, ensure adequate intake of high-quality protein, vitamins, and inorganic salts, especially iron to prevent anemia. Choose nutritious, easily digestible foods: fresh fish, tender chicken, eggs, animal liver, animal blood, lean meat, soy products, dairy, jujubes, lotus seeds, fresh fruits, and vegetables. Avoid or limit greasy, raw, cold foods. Do not eat radish, hawthorn, bitter melon, or tangerines—foods with qi-regulating, blood-activating, or cold properties. Prefer easily digestible foods. A two-week nourishment period is ideal; those with weak constitution, poor health, or significant blood loss may extend it appropriately.
Herbal dietary remedies after abortion
(1) Egg and Jujube Soup: 2 eggs, 10 jujubes, moderate brown sugar. Boil water, crack in eggs and simmer until soft. When water boils again, add jujubes and brown sugar, simmer gently for 20 minutes. Benefits: tonifies middle energizer, strengthens qi, nourishes blood. Suitable for anemia and post-illness/postpartum qi-blood deficiency.
(2) Lychee and Jujube Soup: 7 dried lychees, 7 dried jujubes. Boil together, drink one dose daily. Benefits: nourishes blood, generates body fluids. Suitable for female anemia and post-abortion weakness.
(3) Soy Milk and Rice Porridge: 2 bowls soy milk, 50 grams rice, moderate sugar. Wash rice, cook with soy milk into porridge, add sugar after cooking. Consume on an empty stomach in the morning. Benefits: harmonizes spleen and stomach, clears heat, moistens dryness. Suitable for post-abortion weakness.
(4) Pigeon and Goji Soup: 1 young pigeon, 30 grams goji berries, a pinch of salt. Remove feathers and internal organs, wash thoroughly, place in pot with water and goji berries, stew until cooked, add salt. Eat meat and drink soup, twice daily. Benefits: tonifies qi, nourishes blood, treats deficiency. Suitable for post-abortion weakness, post-illness qi deficiency, fatigue, spontaneous sweating.
(5) Candied Jujubes: 50 grams dried jujubes, 100 grams peanuts, 50 grams brown sugar. Soak jujubes in warm water, briefly boil peanuts, remove skins. Cook jujubes and peanuts in small aluminum pot with water, simmer gently for 30 minutes. Remove peanuts, add brown sugar, cook until syrup thickens. Benefits: nourishes blood, treats deficiency. Suitable for post-abortion anemia or low blood count.