What can’t you eat if you have conjunctivitis?

Pink eye is a common eye disease and is also caused by bacteria in daily life. This disease is highly contagious. When you suffer from conjunctivitis, you need to pay attention to some aspects of your diet, such as not drinking alcohol and not eating greasy or heavy-tasting foods.

Foods that cannot be eaten for pink eye disease

1. Don’t drink alcohol if you have conjunctivitis

Conjunctivitis is caused by wind-heat evil or gastrointestinal heat invading the liver meridian and attacking the eyes. Drinking alcohol (including various spirits, rice wine, fruit wine, rice wine, beer, etc.) can help evil heat and toxic gases, just like fanning the flames; at the same time, drinking alcohol can also damage the liver yin, making the liver meridian empty, making it easier for wind-heat and evil toxins to invade, thereby prolonging the course of the disease.

2. People with conjunctivitis cannot eat spicy food

Spicy foods such as scallions, onions, leeks, artemisia, mustard, etc. can warm the yang and help eliminate wind-heat evil, and can also consume the yin of the lungs and stomach, aggravating the accumulated heat in the lungs and stomach, making the wind-heat evil and the accumulated heat in the lungs and stomach difficult to remove, which is not conducive to the early recovery of this disease.

3. People with conjunctivitis should not eat fishy or smelly food

Patients with conjunctivitis should avoid fishy and pungent foods such as yellow croaker, eel, rubber fish, mandarin fish, eel, black fish, bream, crab, and shrimp, otherwise it will lead to more wind-heat evil and more heat toxicity in the body, bringing unnecessary trouble to treatment and recovery.

4. People with conjunctivitis should not eat ginger

People with eye inflammation should not eat ginger. People with eye inflammation should eat cool and heat-dispersing foods, and avoid warm, spicy and dispersing foods. Ginger is warm and spicy, which can both increase heat and damage yin fluid. If people with eye inflammation eat it, it will aggravate the condition.