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Red dates and brown sugar do not replenish blood

Top 5 causes of anemia

By Phil HolzerPublished 3 years ago 7 min read
Red dates and brown sugar

Anemia is a disease that is not easy to detect and is more dangerous, so if you suffer from it, you should actively seek medical treatment. At the same time, do a good job of daily dietary regulation to prevent the condition from worsening and then leading to other more serious complications.

In most cases, people think that eating red food regularly can bring a good blood replenishment effect, although red dates, brown sugar, and other foods are red in appearance these foods are not able to bring blood replenishment effect. If you want to replenish your blood, then what kind of food would be better to consume? You may want to learn more about it.

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The 5 main causes of anemia

1. Poor nutrition

If the body is in a poor nutritional state for a long time, it is easy to cause the symptoms of anemia, so we actively control our diet in our lives. Active intake of high-protein food is very effective for improving anemia.

2. Insufficient intake of iron

Insufficient intake of iron can easily cause anemia. During the rapid development of infants and adolescents, the demand for iron will increase greatly.

If parents do not pay attention to the child's diet and nutrition, resulting in insufficient iron intake, then the child will easily develop anemia symptoms.

In addition, pregnant women and nursing mothers also have a great demand for iron, which can easily cause anemia if they do not pay attention to supplementation.

3. Chronic blood loss during menstruation

According to the latest research, excessive menstruation is an important cause of anemia and iron deficiency, which often makes women's blood "insufficient". Normal menstruation is a cycle of 24 to 35 days, with periods lasting 2 to 7 days and an average volume of 20 to 60 ml of menstrual blood.

In medical terms, when the volume of menstrual blood is more than 80 ml and the bleeding time is more than 7 days, it is considered as excessive menstruation. Of course, problems such as gastrointestinal bleeding and hemorrhoids can also lead to anemia due to the loss of iron in the blood.

4. Aplasia

This is an anemia caused by the decay of bone marrow hematopoietic function, which is related to exposure to certain harmful substances or long-term consumption of drugs.

Some chloramphenicol drugs and radiation can cause lesions, resulting in leukemia, liver and kidney diseases, etc. In addition to anemia, these patients often have subcutaneous or mucosal bleeding and often have a fever.

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5. Drinking tea

Scientific research has proved that tea contains a large amount of tannic acid, tannic acid in the stomach, and undigested food proteins combined to form tannates. Into the small intestine is digested, tannic acid is released and iron forms iron tannate salts that are not easily absorbed, preventing the absorption of iron in the intestine, and the formation of iron deficiency anemia.

Therefore, people who are addicted to tea should reduce the amount of tea to prevent the occurrence of iron deficiency anemia.

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Anemia mostly has 5 common symptoms! Check how many you have.

1. Frequent insomnia

Many people often have insomnia during nighttime sleep, and having this condition also suggests the development of anemia.

Because anemia is obvious that oxygen is not available in time, the human body wants to maintain a healthy state, and have high-quality sleep, in the process of sleeping oxygen, and blood should be obtained in time.

This condition should be improved in time for severe anemia, otherwise, the lack of oxygen and blood for a long time will make insomnia and dreaminess obvious, and the plant nerve function will be disturbed, thus making it impossible to sleep peacefully at night.

2. Low temperature of hands and feet

It is known that the human body is warm, and the blood keeps flowing to provide nutrients to bring heat to all parts of the body.

Also, the hands and feet are the parts of the body that are least likely to transport blood, and when there is not enough blood volume in the body, the temperature of the hands and feet will be found to be very low, and they are also very cold.

Even if the smallest wind is blowing at night in summer, without a thin blanket, you will be woken up in the middle of the night by freezing, so when such symptoms occur, it is time to consider anemia.

3. Dizziness and headache

After anemia, there will be dizziness and headache. Many people do not pay attention to anemia for a long time, and the blood and oxygen needed by the brain cannot be provided in time, and important tissues and nerve functions are damaged, which will warn to dizziness and headache.

Therefore, inexplicable dizziness and headaches that last for a long time and recurrently occur need to be alerted to anemia. By replenishing the nutrients reasonably needed by the body, the anemia will be improved and the brain function will be enhanced, and the dizziness and headache performance will be improved.

4. Abnormal nails

If you are anemic for a long time, your nails will also become thinner and break due to long-term nutritional deficiencies, and broken nails are more difficult to recover. In some cases, the nail may even become a rebound.

5. Digestive problems

Prolonged anemia can reduce digestion. Many people suffer from prolonged indigestion, not caused by wrong eating behavior, but by severe anemia developing.

When anemia is not relieved in time, the digestive glands secrete less, the glands atrophy, and the body's digestive capacity decreases, mostly with easy bloating, indigestion, loss of appetite, and other manifestations, and in severe cases, certain inflammatory diseases can be allowed to arise.

Therefore, if you find that you have abnormal digestion but there is no wrong eating behavior, you need to pay attention to it, and you cannot exclude that it is the effect of anemia in your body.

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Dates and brown sugar do not replenish blood.

[Red dates].

The iron content of red dates is not high and is mainly non-heme iron, which has a low absorption rate and can play a limited role in supplementing iron, plus the sugar in them can interfere with absorption, so it is not reliable to rely on red dates for iron.

Dates, a little bit every day is a beneficial supplement, but not as the main measure to solve the problem of anemia, and do not think that eating a few jujubes can easily solve the problem.

In daily life patients, eating red dates for blood can play an indirect role in replenishing blood, but if patients want to completely treat the phenomenon of anemia, it is best to go to the hospital for treatment.

[Brown Sugar].

Brown sugar does not have the effect of replenishing blood, but only increases blood volume. Brown sugar contains a small amount of iron, and it is vegetable iron that is not easily absorbed by the body and cannot replenish iron in the body.

The iron content in brown sugar is very low, and although it has some blood tonic effects, the content is low. For people with anemia, it is impossible to choose to eat brown sugar to achieve the purpose of blood replenishment. The iron in brown sugar is plant-based iron, which is not easily absorbed and utilized by the body.

However, brown sugar is warm, and drinking brown sugar water can promote blood circulation, warm the body and drive away the cold, suitable for menstruating women and people with cold hands and feet to drink.

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Doctors remind:: us that real blood is these 4 things, and it is recommended to often end up on the table

1. red meat

Speaking of red meat, people will think that the lean part of pork red meat does not only refer to red meat but also includes beef and mutton, which are collectively known as red meat. They are rich in myoglobin, which allows the body to quickly replenish protein, and their iron content is also high.

Not only that, but the utilization rate of iron in red meat is also higher, if you want to quickly replenish iron, you can eat red meat, the iron in red meat is also broken down by the body very quickly.

2. Purple raisins

Purple raisins have an obvious role in replenishing blood. Patients with anemia can eat raisins as a snack or add a small number of raisins when cooking porridge.

The grapes retain their skins to the greatest extent possible during the sun-drying process, which is therefore more conducive to the retention of some stable nutrients in the raisins.

3. Dried longan

Fresh longan is nutritious food in itself, and dried longan is a very good treatment for anemia.

Because it is rich in proteins and sugars, it is very reliable for providing heat and replenishing blood in winter. If you want to replenish blood, dried longan should be eaten!

4. Rose wine

The best time to drink rose wine is around 7:00 to 9:30 pm when the activity of ethanol deoxygenase in the human liver is elevated, the liver's ability to detoxify alcohol is high, and the alcohol is more easily metabolized.

Women drinking rose wine can regulate qi and relieve depression, harmonize blood and move blood, and is suitable for liver and stomach qi pain. It is suitable for women with menstrual disorders and mental depression and can be a good blood tonic.

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