Dietary considerations during the recovery period of Henoch-Schonlein purpura

During the recovery period, patients with allergic purpura should pay more attention to a healthy diet and stop eating foods that may cause allergies, such as common milk, fish, shrimp, crab, etc. These foods should be eaten lightly, but care should also be taken not to neglect nutritional supplements.

1. Children with Henoch-Schönlein purpura should immediately stop eating foods that may cause allergies, such as milk, fish, shrimp, crab, lamb, seafood and other foreign proteins, and avoid contact with suspected allergens.

2. The diet should be light, nutritious and easy to digest and absorb, and avoid improper eating habits. Avoid eating fatty and greasy foods, and do not overeat at each meal to avoid increasing the gastrointestinal burden and inducing or aggravating gastrointestinal bleeding. Those with severe abdominal pain or positive occult blood in stool should not eat liquid food, and those with obvious bleeding in the digestive tract should fast.

3. Children with Henoch-Schonlein purpura who have abdominal pain and bloody stools should eat a refined diet and try to avoid coarse food or food high in crude fiber, such as celery, rapeseed, bamboo shoots, pineapple, etc., which can damage the gastrointestinal mucosa and induce or aggravate gastrointestinal bleeding.

4. Avoid smoking, drinking and spicy food to avoid inducing or aggravating gastrointestinal bleeding.

5. This is the question most often asked by parents of children in clinical practice. Generally speaking, when there is no new skin purpura for more than 10 days, you can gradually increase the intake of meat, eggs, milk and other foods, one at a time. If no new skin purpura appears after 2 days of trial eating, new food can be added. Compared to eggs and milk, the chance of meat allergy is smaller, so you can try eating meat first.