Food in ankylosing spondylitis: diet for women and men

Diet for ankylosing spondylitis – one of the methods to prevent the full ossification of the spine. Exclude from the diet of junk foods, it is possible to slow the process of degeneration of cartilage and its substitution for cartilage. It is necessary to keep a patient with ankylosing spondylitis received a sufficient amount of micronutrients and ate fully.

Why you need a special diet

Bechterew's disease or ankylosing spondylitis develops because of the special genes in the body. When the body gets an infection, these genes cause the cartilage to make the properties of the infection to protect them from the disease. As a result of ankylosing spondylitis, the immune system sends power to fight with his own cartilage cells. They are destroyed and to keep the spine in a "normal state", the body builds up in their place of bone tissue.

The spine of patients with ankylosing spondylitis is converted into a fixed structure. People affected by this disease experience pain attacks in the morning, constant heel pain, swelling and inflammation. Deteriorating nutrition of the brain, dizzy, start pre-existing conditions, dark eyes, increased blood pressure.

Ankylosing spondylitis to cure completely impossible, but you can slow down the process of ossification of the spine. That man is not frozen forever in a bent posture, you need to completely change their way of life. To use medicines courses to physical therapy. But one of the most important moments is the diet of the patient. The diet should contain these foods that slow the growth of bone and thus give the body enough nutrients, protein, fat and carbohydrates.

Guidelines for ration formulation

In the diet of patients affected with ankylosing spondylitis should be taken into account the following recommendations:

• Salt is poorly suited better to replace it with grinded seaweed or sea salt;
• If you use milk and dairy products, it is necessary to choose the least fatty option;
• More vegetables and fruits;
• From butter and mayonnaise should be abandoned;
• Allowed to consume oil corn, olive, sunflower and flax, they must be unrefined;
• Dry fruits, sunflower seed and nuts are preferably as often as possible;
• Greenery has a positive effect;
• Cereals made from whole grains, soups – preferred food;
• Fried food is harmful, it is better to boil, simmer, saute;
• To strengthen the cartilage, you need to eat more bone broths, gelatin;
• Meat products in the diet should be reduced, but if it gets to the table, it needs to be lean.

In General, dairy products at this illness harmful and should be eliminated from the diet for ankylosing spondylitis, since they carcinogenesis. Calcium and encases the spine of the patient in a fixed position, so you should use it as little as possible. As in the body the lack of silicon, you need to eat more parsley, lettuce, dill.

Considering that the body with this diet will be deficient in fluorine, to fill better to lean on walnuts.

• Suggest reading: exercise therapy in ankylosing spondylitis

Medical Mediterranean diet

If the patient ankylosing spondylitis diet in the Mediterranean style is the best, and most importantly – a comprehensive solution. This dietary complex is quite comfortable, with him patient with ankylosing spondylitis will not always be in the fasted state, will not be observed anemia. This diet has the following principles:

• Table three quarters should be covered with vegetables and fruits. More greens, nuts, whole grains, beans and beans. Here is the necessary fiber and vitamins;
• Meat products red excluded. You can eat them at least once a week and in limited quantities. Squirrels sitting on this diet gets chicken, seafood. But such food should not be in excess, remember the first rule;
• Olive oil replaces all other fats. Butter and lard should not be consumed at all. Oil other vegetable type you can use, but olive is preferable;
• Such a diet is already as man salt stock. Salting food is strictly prohibited. To replace it you need spices, herbs.

Please read: treatment of Bechterew's disease folk remedies

In grapes contain healthy acids. Therefore, natural red wine is beneficial, andto use it in a small volume need two or three times a day. Everything else, wine in the Mediterranean diet will improve digestion.

Food rests on solid cereals, pasta from durum flour, dark rice. They need to be submitted for each Breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Fruits and vegetables you need to eat three to six times per day. As a main dish, use the chicken (up to four times a week), seafood (up to six times a week). Potatoes are eaten no more often than three times a week. Four days out of seven, you can eat an egg. Twice a week, for example dark chocolate.

• Read: vitamins for the spine

Try to cook yourself, there is nothing in catering, don't buy products "defrosting". Do not fill food sauces mayonnaise and ketchup, these products are harmful in principle. Sugary sodas and juices in Tetra packs are excluded. Indulge yourself, as already mentioned, wine. Stimulating drinks, tea and coffee is better not to drink. Diet the Mediterranean diet is structured so that a person with ankylosing spondylitis and without enough energy.

Healthy recipes

Well, if the power is Bechterew's disease will contain the usual vegetarian or raw food diet. If there are problems with digestion, extra pounds, the patient suffered from alcoholism – it is better to first purify the body. We therefore recommend that such cleansing recipes:

• In the evening put 2 tbsp of the risk to be flushed, then leave the water at night. After you Wake up, pour the rice in the same water in a saucepan. Wait until boiling, drain the water. Bring thus the rice in cold water to a boil three times. Then eat it. Not very "tasty" recipe, but useful;
• Wash some dried apricots, prepare the boiling water, remove from the heat. Put the dried fruit in the water. Pour the water, eat dried apricots;
• Instead of the usual drinks to drink after meals at lunchtime and in the evening two shots salicylate sodium;
• To clean the kidneys, take oil of turpentine and flax, rose hips, dandelion, and SAP pine.