Who can't eat watermelon?

Although we like to eat watermelon very much, we may still need to avoid eating watermelon sometimes. Today I will tell you when to avoid eating watermelon:

1. Diabetes patients

Watermelon contains about 5% sugar, and mainly glucose, sucrose and some fructose. Therefore, if you eat watermelon several times a day, you should reduce the amount of rice and pasta (carbohydrates) accordingly to avoid aggravating your condition.

2. Patients with renal insufficiency

Patients with renal insufficiency have a greatly reduced ability to excrete water from the body, so they often experience edema in the lower limbs or the whole body. If such patients eat too much watermelon, they will take in too much water and fail to excrete the excess water in time, causing excessive water storage in the body and increased blood volume, which will not only aggravate edema but also easily induce acute heart failure. Therefore, it is better for patients with renal insufficiency to eat less or no watermelon.

3. Early stage of cold

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that whether it is a cold caused by wind or heat, it is an external symptom in the early stage, and a dispersing treatment method should be adopted to eliminate the pathogenic factors from the surface. It is also believed that attacking the pathogenic factors before the surface is eliminated will aggravate the condition. Watermelon has the effect of clearing internal heat, so eating watermelon at this time will aggravate the cold or prolong the course of the disease.

4. Oral ulcer patients

Oral ulcers are considered to be caused by Yin deficiency, internal heat, and internal fire disturbance in traditional Chinese medicine. Watermelon has a diuretic effect. If people with oral ulcers eat more watermelon, the water needed for oral ulcer recovery will be excreted too much, thereby aggravating Yin deficiency and internal heat, making the disease protracted and difficult to heal.

5. Pregnant women

The physical constitution of a postpartum woman is relatively weak. Chinese medicine believes that eating too much watermelon will cause excessive coldness and damage the spleen and stomach.