What foods should not be eaten with allergic purpura?

One type is the food that you have clearly eaten to induce purpura, or the allergen test is clearly positive. The other type is the highly allergenic, spicy, hard and rough food in the acute stage (especially the 2 weeks before the onset of symptoms, when abdominal purpura symptoms occur). In the stable stage, there is no need to blindly avoid large-scale foods. Many foods can be slowly tested and added back.

A while ago, a young patient in junior high school came for a review. He said that his mother had forbidden him eggs and milk for almost half a year. He did not even dare to eat pork, and he lost almost ten pounds. When I asked him about the onset of the disease, he heard that "all high proteins are allergenic." The allergen test showed that he was not allergic to eggs and milk at all. Later, he was slowly added to boiled eggs, and no new petechiae appeared after half a month of eating. Only then did he realize that he had been suffering for so long.

When it comes to the range of taboos, there is actually no unified statement in the industry. Some doctors will recommend a vegetarian diet for 3-6 months in the acute phase to minimize the stimulation of external allergens. There are also studies that have followed thousands of patients and found that as long as they are not allergic to meat and eggs, boiling them until soft and eating them in small amounts can actually help supplement nutrition. Once the immunity is improved, the recurrence rate will be lower. To put it bluntly, it depends on the individual situation and cannot be generalized.

If you have just gotten sick and you still have stomachache or even blood in your stool, you really need to keep your mouth shut. There are hard and indigestible foods like crispy apples with skin, fried skewers, nuts, iced milk tea with crispy pops, and a lot of chili peppers. Don’t touch hot pot and braised peppercorns. I have seen several patients with abdominal purpura. They were almost cured, but they secretly gnawed on a hard peach. The pain caused them to go to the emergency room all night long. The intestinal mucosa with bleeding spots was scratched by something hard. It was so painful.

Oh, by the way, there is also the amazing "blacklist of food" that is circulated on the Internet. You cannot touch beef, mutton, leeks, and seafood. It is really unnecessary. If you have never been allergic to shrimp before, wait for a week or two to wait for the purpura to subside, and try one or two bites first. If there are no new petechiae or stomachaches, then you can eat normally. You can't just not eat seafood for the rest of your life, right?

If you are really unsure, just keep a food diary. Write down everything you eat every day, and note whether there are any red spots on your body or any discomfort. Keep journaling for half a month, and your own list of taboos will come out. It is much more reliable than the cookie-cutter generic lists on the Internet. After all, the individual differences in this disease are really huge. Don’t make unnecessary taboos, which will not only ruin your diet but also slow down your recovery.