Psoriasis is a non-infectious dermatological disease that quickly becomes chronic. During the period of exacerbation of psoriasis, protruding, scaly rashes appear above the surface of the skin, causing many disorders. Typical areas of psoriasis are knees, elbows and scalp. The spread of the disease occurs throughout the body. A psoriasis diet can ease the course of the disease. Statistics say that 70% of patients are young people under the age of 20, but absolutely all age categories are prone to psoriasis.
Food Rules for Psoriasis
The psoriasis diet is a medicinal food, whose adherence is recommended to prevent relapses in the patient. Patients with psoriasis need to monitor their emotional state, check the functioning of the stomach and the entire gastrointestinal tract, eat in small doses (at least five times a day), eliminate allergens and increase the amount of fluid consumed. Daily stools are an unshakeable rule for patients with psoriasis. Stagnation of food in the body contributes to the exacerbation of psoriasis.
To maintain the correct water balance in psoriasis, you must:
- Drink 1, 7-2 liters of purified water daily with the addition of a small amount of lemon juice.
- Reduce your consumption of green and black tea. Increase the amount of herbal infusions, especially chamomile, flax seed decoction.
- Include natural juices (carrots, spinach, celery, apples, parsley, beets) in your diet.
Basic cooking rules for psoriasis:
- Eliminate fried and fatty foods from the menu. A special place is occupied by dishes cooked, steamed or baked in the mango of food.
- Reduce the amount of salt.
- Increase your intake of fermented dairy products, preferably homemade.
- Limit the amount of condiments in your meals. For health benefits, substitute lemon juice or a specially prepared sauce (yoghurt + herbs + garlic + mustard).
What can and cannot be ingested by patients with psoriasis?
The psoriasis diet implies total control and adherence to the basic rules of a healthy diet. Few are able to limit themselves, give up their favorite foods, but during the period of exacerbation of psoriasis - this is a difficult need. The disease is not completely cured. Its course cannot be changed by the use of medication alone and by non-adherence to dietary treatment. Knowing which foods can be consumed, which should be totally excluded during a psoriasis flare, can alleviate the patient's well-being and reduce major symptoms.
List of allowed and prohibited products
With psoriasis, you need to follow these dietary rules:
- Eat more vegetables (lettuce, parsley, dill, chives), fresh fruits, vegetables. They contain a whole store of vitamins.
- Eat more often cooked or steamed fatty fish dishes (salmon, salmon).
- Eat plenty of porridge - buckwheat, rice, oats, wheat or whatever.
- Add vegetable oil containing PUFA to foods.
- Saturate the diet with blueberries or blueberries. These little balls have long been considered the leaders among the berries in alleviating psoriasis symptoms.
People with this disease must be categorically excluded from the diet or reduced:
- Coffee consumption, strong teas.
- The amount of fatty meat.
- The amount of alcohol consumed.
- Consumption of spicy or salty condiments, vinegar.
- The amount of honey, sugar and baked goods consumed.
- The participation of strong broths, sauces in the diet.
- Eat any smoked product.
Sample menu for a week
After compiling a diet menu for a week (5 days), it's easier to see what foods need to be purchased and to avoid emergency snacks with prohibited foods for psoriasis. Diet in the treatment of psoriasis is essential. Failure to comply aggravates the course of the disease. Remember to drink 1 glass (or more) of purified cold water between meals. Dinner should be made no more than three hours before bedtime.
Monday
- Breakfast - buckwheat porridge + a small piece of butter + dried fruit. Weak tea with a slice of hard cheese.
- 2nd breakfast (after 2 hours) - an apple, banana or other non-allergenic fresh fruit.
- 3rd breakfast (after 2 hours) - curd seasoned with skim cream + fruit.
- Lunch - salad (fresh vegetables + 1 tablespoon of oil), vegetable soup, side dish with low-fat boiled meat, bread.
- Afternoon snack - fruit.
- Dinner - porridge with cooked vegetables + bread. After 1, 5 hours, kefir + low-fat biscuits.
third
- Breakfast - oatmeal with raisins and a piece of butter, bread, 1 glass of rosehip drink.
- 2nd breakfast - low fat kefir.
- 3rd breakfast - fresh fruit.
- Lunch - salad (fresh vegetables, seasoning with oil and lemon juice). Second Chicken Broth Soup. Puree a slice of steamed fish. Bread.
- Afternoon snack - cottage cheese with fresh fruit, seasoned with yogurt.
- Dinner - buckwheat porridge with meatless butter + steamed vegetables.
Wednesday
- Breakfast - a two-egg omelet. Cocoa, butter and hard cheese sandwich.
- 2nd breakfast - fresh fruit.
- 3rd breakfast - a glass of kefir.
- Lunch - salad with fresh vegetables + salad dressing (vegetables, mustard, lemon juice, oil, garlic). Borscht with beef broth. Steamed rice porridge with chop. Bread.
- Afternoon snack - some baked apples.
- Dinner - vegetable stew. A piece of rye bread.
Thursday
- Breakfast - low-fat cottage cheese seasoned with sour cream + raisins. A glass of freshly squeezed juice.
- 2nd breakfast - fresh fruit. Compote with dried fruit.
- 3rd breakfast - 1 boiled egg.
- Dinner - ear. Steamed chicken cutlets + vinaigrette. Bread. Herbal Chamomile Tea
- Afternoon snack - dried fruit compote. Chocolate-free marshmallow.
- Dinner - a piece of steamed salmon + oatmeal with a piece of butter. Bread. Weak green tea.
Friday
- Breakfast - pumpkin milk porridge with dried apricots and raisins. Bread. Compote with dried fruit.
- 2nd breakfast - natural juice + 2 egg scrambled eggs.
- Lunch - mashed zucchini soup. Pilaf, not fried. Bread. Rosehip Decoction.
- Afternoon snack - a glass of yogurt (fermented milk or kefir) + two baked apples.
- Dinner - curd casserole. Jam or chamomile tea.
Diet Recipes
cottage cheese casserole
Prepare 1 kg of low-fat cottage cheese + 4 eggs + 1 cup semolina + half a cup of steamed raisins + 5 tbsp. me. sugar + a pinch of salt and vanilla. Pass the curd through a sieve, add the beaten eggs with sugar and mix. Pour the semolina, salt and vanilla into the curd mass. Stir with a spoon or an electric mixer, let it rest for half an hour. Place the resulting dough into a greased pan. Bake with or without the lid closed (about half an hour at medium temperature). Allow casserole to cool before using. A healthy dessert during the diet is ready.
Pumpkin porridge with raisin milk is a healthy sweet dish for a patient with psoriasis.
You will need: half a kilo of pumpkin, 2/3 cup of rice, half a liter of milk, half a glass of raisins, salt, sugar, vanillin to taste. Peel the pumpkin from the seeds and husks. Cut into small cubes or strips. Pour halfway with water. When it is soft, knead it well, pour in the milk. Add the prepared rice (soak 2 hours in advance, rinse), salt, sugar. Pour in the washed raisins and vanilla 15 minutes before hanging up. Add a piece of butter to the finished porridge. Bake for 15 minutes - the dish will become more aromatic and soft.
Zucchini soup with hard cheese
To prepare a tender spring soup, you will need:
- 1 liter of purified water;
- 2 zucchinis (up to 20 cm long);
- 5 pieces of potato;
- 1 teaspoon of finely grated ginger;
- hard cheese (1 tbsp. l for each serving);
- 1 tablespoon of soup. me. oil;
- fresh or dried herbs (parsley, dill, celery);
- salt to taste;
- spices (laurel leaf, cardamom).
Pour the chopped potatoes and zucchini into boiling water. Pass the coriander, crushed in a pestle, the grated ginger for 30 seconds. Place with ready-made vegetables, boil for 1 minute, turn off the heat. Drain excess liquid into a separate bowl. Grind the cooked vegetables in a blender, gradually adding the vegetable stock until you get the desired consistency. Add salt and herbs. Bring to a boil, turn off. Soup puree, arranged in portioned dishes, sprinkle with grated hard cheese to taste. The first course of the patient's diet is ready.
Oatmeal with dried fruit
A quick and useful dish for a patient with psoriasis is oatmeal. You need to have half a glass of oatmeal. Pour them into boiling water (1 cup), add raisins, dried apricots or other dried fruits (any fresh or frozen fruit), salt, sugar to taste. Turn off the fire. Add a piece of butter. Leave to ferment for 15 minutes. Breakfast or diet dinner is ready.
The principles of nutritional therapy according to different methods
Common diets for treating people with psoriasis are the Pegano method. Two nutritionists agree that, to prevent relapses and worsening of the condition, patients with psoriasis must maintain the body's acid-base balance in proportions of 20% to 70% or 30% to 80% and follow the fundamentals of adequate nutrition. Let's take a look at both diets.
According to the Pegano method
Dr. John Pegano has developed a dietary treatment for patients with psoriasis in which vegetables and fruits are grouped together to help regulate the acid-base balance. He believes that raw apples, bananas and melons are best consumed in small doses, separately from other foods. Small portions of currants, plums, avocados, beans, cranberries, dried beans, mushrooms, plums, lentils, rhubarb, almonds, hazelnuts should be eaten. It is advisable to take 1 tablespoon five days a week. me. lecithin (granular). After eating, a slight feeling of hunger should be present.
In your psoriasis diet, up to 80% of the foods you consume include:
- purified water (up to 8 cups per day), as an addition to other liquids;
- fruits, vegetables, but not canned. Baked apples, dates, apricots, figs, raisins, kiwi fruit, mangoes and pears are especially useful for patients with psoriasis. Vegetables - asparagus, carrots, cabbage, beets, celery, onions, olives, pumpkin, zucchini. This is the basis of dietary nutrition for psoriasis.
About one-third of a psoriasis patient's diet should be:
- cereals in the form of cereals - buckwheat, millet, oats, barley, rye;
- wholegrain bread, bran, crunchy bread, sprouts;
- fish dishes (at least four times a week): tuna, cod, plaice, perch, sturgeon, trout;
- birds - up to three times a week (skinless);
- meat (exclusively lean lamb) - up to twice a week;
- skim milk, fermented dairy products, butter, cheese, cottage cheese;
- eggs (boiled or boiled only) - up to four times a week;
- chamomile decoctions, watermelon seeds, mullein.
The treatment of a patient with psoriasis with a diet according to the Pegano method excludes the combination of them:
- whole grains with citrus fruits (not only fresh but also dried, cooked) and juices;
- dairy products with citrus fruits, juices;
- all kinds of fruits with white flour products;
- in one serving of food, a large number of acid-forming foods.
According to the nutritionist's method
In treating psoriasis with diet, another nutritionist combines foods with herbal decoctions. According to his method, the diet completely excludes all citrus fruits (except grapefruit), strawberries, beans, raspberries, avocados, strawberries, pomegranates, lentils, peas. Allowed grapes (in small quantities), cabbage (any portion). It is recommended that green beans, zucchini, carrots, broccoli, garlic, onion, spinach, cucumber and squash are eaten at short intervals. Bananas, melons and raw apples are eaten separately from other foods. They drink mineral water every day.