When can't you eat watermelon? Who can't eat watermelon?

What kind of watermelon can't be eaten, or when should we not eat or eat less watermelon? Today, let's talk about it in detail:

1. Don’t eat too much.

Otherwise, it will hurt the spleen and stomach and cause pharyngitis. Watermelon is a cold food. Eating too much watermelon can easily hurt the spleen and stomach. Therefore, people with spleen and stomach deficiency, indigestion, and loose stools should eat less. Eating too much watermelon will cause abdominal distension, diarrhea, and decreased appetite. It will also accumulate cold and dampness, leading to diseases. If you eat too much watermelon at one time, the large amount of water in the watermelon will dilute the gastric juice, causing indigestion and decreased gastrointestinal resistance.

2. Don’t eat watermelon in the early stage of a cold.

Otherwise, it will make the cold worse or prolong the time of healing. Whether it is a cold caused by wind or heat, the initial stage is an external symptom, and the treatment should be carried out by dispersing the pathogenic factors from the surface. Chinese medicine believes that the interior should not be attacked before the surface is resolved, otherwise the external pathogenic factors will enter the interior and the condition will worsen. In the early stage of a cold, when the pathogenic factors are on the surface, eating watermelon is equivalent to taking medicine to clear the internal heat, which will lead the pathogenic factors into the interior, making the cold worse or prolonging the time of healing. However, when the cold worsens and symptoms such as high fever, thirst, sore throat, yellow and red urine appear, you can eat some watermelon while taking normal medicine, which will help the recovery of the cold.

3. Don’t eat watermelon that has been opened for too long.

The temperature is high, and watermelons opened for too long are prone to spoilage and breeding of bacteria, which can lead to intestinal infectious diseases if eaten. Therefore, when eating watermelons, you should pay attention to choosing ripe and fresh watermelons.

4. People with renal insufficiency should not eat it.

Eating a lot of watermelon in a short period of time will increase the water content in the body, exceeding the physiological capacity of the human body. For people with renal insufficiency, the kidney's ability to regulate water is greatly reduced, and the excessive water entering the body cannot be regulated and excreted, causing a sharp increase in blood volume, which is easy to die from acute heart failure.

5. People with oral ulcers should not eat it.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, the main cause of oral ulcers is internal heat caused by Yin deficiency, which causes the internal heat to disturb the body and burn the blood, flesh and veins. Watermelon has a diuretic effect. If people with oral ulcers eat more watermelon, some of the normal water needed by the body will be discharged through the diuretic effect of watermelon, which will aggravate the state of Yin fluid deficiency. Yin deficiency will lead to internal heat, which will aggravate oral ulcers.

6. Diabetic patients should eat less.

Watermelon contains about 5% sugar. If diabetic patients eat too much watermelon, it will lead to high blood sugar, increased urine sugar and other consequences. In severe cases, ketoacidosis and coma may occur. If you eat 25-50 grams of watermelon at a time, it will not have much effect on diabetic patients, so diabetic patients should pay attention to the amount of watermelon they eat.