Psoriasis is a non-communicable disease that, in the absence of proper treatment, takes on a chronic form. To prevent this, you should visit the doctor and follow the correct diet for psoriasis, because the speed and quality of treatment depends on this.
What rules of nutrition you need to follow
Diet during this period will help alleviate the patient's condition, minimizes the risk of relapse. In addition, you need to control your emotional state, avoid stress, do not forget to check the work of the digestive tract, consume food in small portions, but often, at least five times a day, eliminate any allergens from your diet, increase the amount of fluid. It is important to remember that stagnation of food in the body can also cause exacerbation of the disease.
To maintain water balance in psoriasis, you should:
- Drink at least 2 liters of water daily, and you can add a little lemon juice.
- It is best to give up or minimize the consumption of green and black tea. Replace them with herbal infusions, especially useful to drink chamomile.
- Include in the diet fresh juices from apples, carrots, beets.
In addition, you should remember about the following rules for the preparation of dishes for this disease:
- Delete fried and fatty foods from the menu. A special place should take boiled dishes or steamed.
- Reduce the amount of salt.
- Increase the amount of fermented milk products, especially homemade.
- Minimize the use of seasonings. It is much healthier to use lemon juice, yoghurt sauce, parsley, dill, mustard and garlic.
What can be included in the diet, and what is not?
An important note - the diet for this disease involves the control of nutrition, compliance with the rules. You should not limit yourself completely, but in the period of exacerbation you need to forget for a while about your “want”: you cannot do without a strict diet. It is worth remembering that psoriasis can be cured completely only with a combination of medicines, medical shampoos and diets. If you know that you cannot eat during this period, you can cope with the disease much faster.
When psoriasis occurs, it must be remembered that the following recommendations will help to heal faster:
include in the diet more greens, vegetables and fruits, which contain a lot of vitamins and useful trace elements;- often eat boiled or steamed food, especially fish;
- Do not forget about cereal: buckwheat, oatmeal;
- when cooking, use vegetable oils with a high content of PUFA;
- Include lingonberries or blueberries in the menu, as these berries are known to relieve the condition of psoriasis very quickly.
include in the diet more greens, vegetables and fruits, which contain a lot of vitamins and useful trace elements;But the following products should not be abused for psoriasis, but it is better to abandon them for a while:
- Coffee and tea;
- fat meat;
- vinegar, salt seasonings;
- sugar, honey, sweets;
- smoked products.
We make an exemplary menu for the week
If you go on a diet for at least five days, it will allow you to deal with the problem much faster. You should also drink at least one glass of water in the intervals between meals, and dinner should be at least three hours before bedtime.
Let's take a closer look at how you can roughly make a menu.
Monday
For breakfast, make buckwheat porridge with a little oil, you can add dried fruits. Instead of coffee, make a weak tea, add lemon. After two hours, eat an apple or banana, as long as the fruit is hypoallergenic. After another two hours, you can eat low-fat cottage cheese with sour cream, one apple.
For lunch, make a vegetable salad, dressed with olive oil, low-fat soup, side dish with chicken. At lunch you can eat fruit. At dinner, it is desirable to extinguish the vegetables with porridge, supplement it with a glass of kefir and a few cookies.
Tuesday
For breakfast, make porridge with a piece of butter and raisins, drink a glass of rosehip broth. At the second breakfast you can drink a glass of kefir, after two hours have breakfast with fruit.
For lunch, make a salad of fresh vegetables, chicken broth, mashed potatoes with lean fish or chicken, and it should be steamed. At lunch you can take a curd with vegetables, all this to fill with yogurt. For dinner - buckwheat porridge with steamed vegetables.
Wednesday
For breakfast, it is best to make an omelette, add it to a cheese sandwich, a glass of cocoa. For a second breakfast, that is, in two hours, eat fresh fruit.
For lunch it is worth making a salad, and it is better to fill it not with butter, but with a sauce of greens, mustard, lemon juice, also cook borscht on beef. In the afternoon snack you can eat baked apples, but for dinner it is better to make vegetable stew and add it to a piece of bread, always rye.
Thursday
Breakfast should consist of low-fat cottage cheese with raisins, seasoned with sour cream. Drink a glass of carrot juice. At the second breakfast - fresh fruit, compote of dried fruit. Two hours later, eat a boiled egg. For dinner, eat fish soup, vinaigrette with steam cutlets. Add all herbal chamomile infusion. In the afternoon snack snack marshmallows, compote of dried fruit. For dinner - a piece of salmon, and it should be steamed, for a side dish - oatmeal.
Friday
For breakfast - milk pumpkin porridge, in which you can add raisins and dried apricots. At the second breakfast (in two hours), drink fresh juice, make an omelet from two eggs. For lunch you should cook squash soup, rice. From drinks perfectly suitable broth hips. At lunch - yogurt or ryazhenka, two apples. For dinner - cottage cheese casserole with chamomile tea.
Various methods of therapeutic nutrition
There are several diets that help with psoriasis. However, the most famous are the methods of Ogneva and Pagano. Moreover, these two nutritionists agree in one opinion: to avoid relapses, to improve the condition, with psoriasis, it is necessary to maintain the acid-base balance in the ratio of 30 to 80%.
Let's take a closer look at each of the techniques.
Pegano
A nutritionist has developed a special treatment for those with psoriasis. Smashed fruits and vegetables into several groups, which allows you to adjust the acid-base balance. For example, in his opinion, melon, apples and bananas are best used in food in small portions and separately from other fruits. Also in small portions should eat currants, dried beans, mushrooms, almost all dried fruits, hazelnuts.
As Dr. Pagano notes, one should drink a tablespoon of lecithin in granules once a day for five days. You can not get enough on the diet - a slight feeling of hunger must be present without fail. In addition, according to this method, you need to drink from 8 cups of water a day.
Especially useful are baked apples, dried fruits, mangoes, pears. Vegetables should be included in the diet carrots, asparagus, beets, onions, zucchini.
About 30% of the diet should consist of cereals, cereals, including buckwheat, oatmeal, if you like bread, you should eat only bran, and better - loaves.
At least 4 times a week you need to eat fish, especially for psoriasis tuna, perch, trout. Bird - about three times a week, from meat you can eat only lean lamb or beef. You should also include in the diet of fermented milk products, butter, cheese, cottage cheese, make useful chamomile decoctions.
But there is one important point: a diet according to this nutritionist excludes simultaneous combination:
- citrus and wholegrain;
- any fruit with white flour products;
- dairy products and citrus fruits.
Fire
According to nutritionist Ogneva, psoriasis treatment should be as follows:
- all citrus fruits are excluded, it is impossible to consume raspberries, strawberries, avocados, peas;
- It is necessary to make infusions of Altai herbs;
- in the diet should be a lot of cabbage;
- separately need to consume bananas, raw apples;
- with short breaks you need to consume garlic, cucumbers and pumpkin;
- drink mineral water every day.
As you can see, there are a variety of diets. In the period of psoriasis, it is very important to adhere to them, which will make it possible to cope with the disease more quickly.
