What are the dietary methods for pituitary tumors

A reasonable and healthy diet for pituitary tumors plays an important role in the treatment of pituitary tumors. Improper diet will often greatly reduce the treatment effect, affect the treatment effect, and may also cause recurrence. So, what are the dietary methods for pituitary tumors? Let’s take a look at some effective dietary methods introduced to us by experts.

After treatment of pituitary tumor, you should have a regular diet, avoid overeating, and eat on time; the diet should be light, and try not to eat spicy, fried, deep-fried, strong alcohol and other indigestible and irritating foods; eat more fresh fruits, vegetables and fibrous foods, and drink plenty of water; in the diet therapy plan, you should pay attention to eating more foods rich in vitamin A, carotene and vitamin B2.

In addition, patients with pituitary tumors can also choose foods high in phospholipids to strengthen the brain after surgery, such as egg yolks, fish, shrimp, walnuts, peanuts, etc. They should also consciously choose more foods that protect the eyes, such as eggs, animal liver, kidney, carrots, spinach, millet, Chinese cabbage, tomatoes, day lily, water spinach, wolfberry, etc. The following are some common dietary treatments for pituitary tumors:

1. Boil blue crabs with perilla leaves: 2 blue crabs, 15 grams of perilla leaves, cook together, discard the perilla leaves and eat the crabs.

2. Cook fish with red beans and pokeweed: Take a carp, stuff 50 grams of red beans and 10 grams of pokeweed wrapped in cloth into its belly, add seasoning, cook until done, discard the pokeweed and eat.

3. Gastrodia elata and bighead carp head: 10 grams of Gastrodia elata, 1 bighead carp head, add ingredients and cook.

4. Steamed duck with seaweed: 30g each of reef membrane, Ulva, kelp, and Sargassum, and one duck. Kill the duck, remove the hair and internal organs, then stuff the reef membrane, Ulva, kelp, and Sargassum into the duck's belly and steam it. Or use 120g of kelp, stuff it into the duck's belly alone, add seasonings and steam it. Pay attention to controlling the amount of salt.

5. Chuanxiong Grass Carp: 1 grass carp, 3g Chuanxiong, 5g coriander, cook. Chuanxiong has a strong medicinal taste, if you don't like it, you can use 10g scallion white instead, or 5g Panax notoginseng instead.

The above is an introduction to some dietary methods for pituitary tumors. I hope it will be helpful to you.