Diet And Nutritional Therapy For Psoriasis According To Pagano And Ogneva

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Diet for psoriasis

Content:

• Dr. Pegano's nutritional principles
• Diet Fire
• Useful substances the body needs for psoriasis
• Can honey be used for psoriasis?

Dr. Pegano's nutritional principles

First of all, you need to figure out which foods are considered acidic and which are alkaline. Depending on this, you can form your diet. Doctor Pegano offers his own classification.

In accordance with it, acidic products include:

• sweet in combination with starch;
• meat and protein foods;
• foods containing large quantities of fat or sugar;
• alcoholic drinks;
• vinegar of any kind;
• meals and individual foods that are high in sugar.

In addition, the formation of an acidic environment in the body is influenced by constipation or irregular bowel movements, limited physical and mental activity, and an overdose of drugs. You should not eat food containing preservatives, artificial pigments and other additives. It is better to give up the frequent consumption of meat, butter and cream, legumes and potato dishes.

Among alkali-forming products, Pagano distinguishes:

• vegetables;
• fruit.

However, including them in the diet, you need to pay attention to the following features. Not all vegetables are healthy. Peppers, potatoes, eggplants and tomatoes should be discarded. They belong to the nightshade family and can contribute to the development of psoriasis. Rhubarb, Brussels sprouts and pumpkin can sometimes be afforded in small quantities. Fruits such as bananas, apples, melons should be eaten separately from any other foods. When combined with anything, they are harmful rather than beneficial for psoriasis. All fruits belonging to the citrus family cannot be combined with dairy, whole grains. This also applies to juices.

In addition to alkaline products, regular bowel movements have a positive effect on the body. It is important to constantly move, do physical exercises, alternating them with mental activity. Lemon juice diluted in a glass of water helps to increase alkalinity. You need to eat more fruits and vegetables. They can be baked, stewed, or eaten fresh. Juices have a good effect on the body with psoriasis. They are squeezed out of apricots, oranges, pears, grapefruits, grapes. Don't worry too much. You need to get more positive emotions in order to avoid an increase in acidity in the body. It is better to replace ordinary water with mineral water. For example, Borjomi.

What should be in the diet of psoriasis patients?

• Water. You need to drink it a day at least a liter. Not tea, not coffee or juices, but pure water. It can be mineral. People with psoriasis are advised to always carry a small bottle of water with them to drink at all times.
• Fruit. They can be included in other dishes, steamed, baked. Some should be consumed sparingly and in small quantities. For example, melon and raw apples. They cannot be combined with other products. Apples can only be eaten baked. Pineapples, nectarines, mangoes, papaya, raisins, cherries, grapes, and lemon are useful for psoriasis.
• Poultry meat. Allowed to use several times a week. It can be turkey or chicken meat.
• Vegetables. Fresh broccoli, beets, green beans, cucumbers, celery, watercress, carrots and sweet potatoes should be included in the diet. Almonds are useful, but hazelnuts are available only in limited quantities.

• A fish. Better to take the sea. You can steam it, boil it, but not fry it. Sole, trout, sturgeon, tuna, corifena, halibut, sardines are just some of the possible varieties of fish that should be eaten several times a week.
• Cereals. It can be cereals from wheat, barley, various types of rice, corn and flour from it.
• Mutton. This is the only type of meat that can be included in the diet. Like fish, you cannot fry it. Remove all fat before cooking.
• Butter and eggs;
• Milk products. They are rich in calcium. This element is important for the body in psoriasis. Therefore, you should often eat milk, cottage cheese, cheese, yoghurts without additives. You need to choose foods with low fat content.

The following foods must be excluded from the diet:

• citrus;
• vegetables from the nightshade family;
• fatty poultry, smoked meat with spices;
• White bread;
• shellfish, crab, shrimp and lobster;
• fatty dairy products;
• coffee;
• too salty foods, marinades, spices, alcoholic beverages.

It is important to remember that the foods recommended by Dr. Pegano's diet cannot be eaten in unlimited quantities. There should be a measure in everything. Nothing harms the body like overeating.

Natural laxatives help to improve digestion: fruits and vegetables. For regular bowel movements, you can drink a teaspoon of olive oil daily.

A good mood is also important when treating psoriasis. Physical activity allows you to feel a new surge of strength. No need to train to exhaustion. It is enough to take a half-hour walk in the fresh air every day and do exercises in the morning from the exercises you like. The movement should be fun.

Diet Fire

Dr. Ogneva developed her own nutritional system, different from the Pegano diet. In accordance with her recommendations, it is necessary to do a fasting day once a week to cleanse the body. She also considers the main goal of nutrition for patients with psoriasis to create an acid-base balance in the body. A fasting day involves the use of certain foods. So, it can only be vegetables or apples, cottage cheese with kefir.

The classification of products into acid-forming and alkaline-forming according to Ogneva coincides with their division into the same groups by Dr. Pegano. You need to compose your diet so that it is simple, but at the same time varied. Foods should be mostly alkaline-forming, rich in vitamins and nutrients. When combined with other psoriasis control agents, the diet enhances their medicinal effect. External manifestations will appear again and again, if their internal cause is not eliminated. A healthy lifestyle, including sports, proper nutrition, alternating types of stress, allows you to cope with psoriasis in a short time.

General recommendations

Many external factors influence the development of the disease. At first glance, it seems that stress is not the cause of psoriasis, but it is not. Any external irritants cause crusting of the skin.

You need to know that with psoriasis it is unacceptable:

1. Sunbathe a lot. Ultraviolet light in large quantities is harmful to any person, and especially to the patient. Therefore, you should limit the time spent in the sun and sunbathe for a short time after the prevention of psoriasis.
2. Get sick often. Any infection is a blow to the body. Diseases weaken the immune system and aggravate psoriasis.
3. Actively purify the body and starve. Refusal to eat causes a lack of important substances and vitamins in the body. This should not be allowed with psoriasis.
4. Get involved in alcoholic beverages and smoking. Under the influence of alcohol-containing liquids and tobacco, there is a high probability that psoriasis will worsen. It will become even more difficult to cure it in this case.
5. Overeat. Eating large amounts of any food is an extra burden on the digestive organs. You can also get carried away and eat prohibited foods. Therefore, you should carefully monitor your diet, eat several times a day in small portions.

The diet for each patient is selected individually, but the general rules are suitable for everyone who suffers from psoriasis. For some, certain foods cause allergies, which means that they should be excluded from the diet altogether, no matter how useful they are. You should refuse salty, spicy and smoked foods. Fried foods cannot be eaten. Everything needs to be steamed, boiled, baked or stewed.

Useful substances that the body needs for psoriasis:

1. Calcium. It is he who helps maintain the acid-base balance in the body. Its deficiency negatively affects the general condition of the patient with psoriasis. You should eat foods rich in calcium. These can be fermented milk products allowed by the diet. They contain the largest amount of calcium.
2. Polyunsaturated fatty acids. These substances are part of cell membranes, having a great effect on the condition of the skin. Therefore, the lack of polyunsaturated fatty acids can contribute to the development of psoriasis. Their source is vegetable oils. They should definitely be included in the diet.
3. Vitamins. The most important vitamin for psoriasis is vitamin D (when choosing a drug, choose the one with a dosage of 10,000 IU), together with vitamin K2.
4. Cellulose. In the body, it takes part in lipid metabolism. In addition, fiber affects the protective function of the liver. Foods in which it is found in high amounts can help stabilize the stool. Therefore, you need to eat vegetable salads, vinaigrette, vegetable oil.
5. Zinc. This element has a regenerating and healing function. In psoriasis, zinc helps to reduce inflammation and get rid of flaking. It is found in poultry meat, dairy products. It is not for nothing that zinc ointment is used to treat skin diseases. With its help, damaged areas are easily restored.

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Can honey be used for psoriasis?

It is undesirable for patients with psoriasis to eat easily digestible carbohydrates. honey just belongs to such products. Although this is a very useful sweetness, which contains a number of substances important for the body, in this case it is better to refuse it. In accordance with Pegan's nutritional principles, honey is classified as a prohibited product. Therefore, you will have to replace it with other sweets.

Honey is one of the foods that often cause allergic reactions. With psoriasis, such phenomena should not be allowed. After all, allergies, like any other disease, negatively affect the general condition of the body. Although honey is rich in B vitamins and has a laxative effect, this does not make it useful for psoriasis. In addition, there are quite a few products with similar properties.

Despite the fact that honey cannot be included in the diet, it is used for external use. This sweet product, combined with egg white, celandine, petroleum jelly and baby cream, makes an excellent ointment. It is applied to clean skin. As a result, pain and itching go away, and peeling decreases. However, do not forget that if you have an allergy to honey, it can manifest itself even with external use of this product.

The author of the article: Kuzmina Vera Valerievna | Endocrinologist, nutritionist

Education: Diploma of the Russian State Medical University named after NI Pirogov with a degree in General Medicine (2004). Residency at Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, diploma in Endocrinology (2006).