MRSA is the acronym for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus and it is a type of antibiotic resistant staph infection, which mainly takes place in people often remain in a health care facility or in a hospital. MRS in its superficial form causes red area and swelling in the skin with abscesses filled with puss, which requires draining out.
On the other side, if you experience relatively more serious MRSA infection, you may experience various other problems, which include chest pain, chills, fever, breathing shortness, headache and in some cases, people require hospitalization. Furthermore, if you leave the problem untreated, you will deal with the most severe MRSA infection, which results in pneumonia, blood poisoning and death, along with your organ failure.
What To Eat When You Have MRSA?
Individuals may easily manage their symptoms related to MRSA problem by following a proper diet plan. (1) Accordingly, they should stay aware of what to eat and what to avoid strictly to avoid further complications associated with the problem, which include the following-
Step 1- Consume Food Items, which Boost the Immune System
You should make sure having food items, which intent to boost your overall immune system. For instance, you should drink kefir i.e. a fermented type of yogurt. This is because; it comes with probiotics, one of the healthy bacterial intends to boost the immune system by simply assisting your body in the production of white blood cells. Moreover, bacteria present in kefir colonize in the intestinal tract instead of passing through the system as the bacteria present in yogurt.
Step 2- Indulge in the Habit to Consume Turmeric in the Daily Diet
Next, you should make sure including turmeric in your daily diet. Reason for this is that turmeric comes with curcumin and hence, it gives original golden or yellow color to the spice. In addition, curcumin is a type of anti-inflammatory product and possesses antiseptic properties, because of which it has wide applications to deal with MRSA’s superficial cases.
Step 3- Include Garlic in Higher Amounts in Your Diet
Garlic comes with allicin i.e. a strong antioxidant to help in detoxification of your body on its own. Because of this, doctors recommend you having garlic in relatively higher amount to manage your symptoms. Garlic is responsible to increase the formation/production of various antibodies and in turn, stimulate the production of WBCs i.e. white blood cells to fight with the MRSA infection.
Step 4- Strictly Follow a Balanced Diet
You should make sure following a balanced diet, which consists of green veggies, fruits, seeds and nuts. Particularly, you should consume food items rich in Vitamin C, like kiwi, strawberries, citrus fruits, red bell peppers and so on. These play a major role to increase the exact amount of interferon present in your internal system and increase the antibody responsible to coat various cell surfaces and avoid the entrance of any harmful bacteria.
Furthermore, you should opt for Vitamin A and Vitamin E rich food items, as they stimulate the production of various T-cells and give support to the immune system. You will find vitamin A and vitamin E from different sources, which include seeds, nuts, sweet potatoes, vegetable oils and carrots.
What To Avoid When You Have MRSA?
Strictly avoid refined sugar and alcohol. Besides following the aforementioned diet plan related to food to eat/consume, it is essential for you to avoid certain edibles to deal with your MRSA problem. Accordingly, you should strictly avoid refined sugar and alcohol, as both of them are responsible to suppress the functions performed by your immune system.
According to experts, consumption of about 8 table spoons of sugar in combination with about 2 cans of soda are enough to reduce your ability of various white blood cells to kill various germs by about 40 percent. On the other side, consumption of three glasses or even more amount of alcohol reduces the ability of white blood cells to multiple and thereby cause damage to the immune system.
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