High blood sugar is a common phenomenon in diabetic patients. After the blood sugar level is high, various symptoms of fatigue will appear, and it is also very easy to have symptoms of tissue damage that are difficult to heal. Therefore, controlling blood sugar is very important, and dietary control is the most important method to control blood sugar, for example, can diabetic patients eat sea cucumbers, and what are the taboos?

The main taboos for the consumption of sea cucumbers are as follows:

Children generally should not eat sea cucumbers in large quantities. Sea cucumbers are mainly composed of gelatinous proteins, which belong to incomplete proteins and have low nutritional value. Currently, all sea cucumber health products approved by the Ministry of Health require a note stating ‘not suitable for children’. Therefore, it is suggested that infants and young children should not eat sea cucumbers.

People with rheumatoid arthritis should also eat less or not eat sea cucumbers.

When taking some individual Chinese herbs, one should also eat less or not at all.

People with common cold and fever should not eat sea cucumbers.

Sea cucumbers moisten the five internal organs, nourish the body fluids and promote urination, so those with dampness in the spleen and stomach, excessive phlegm and sputum, and thick and greasy tongue coating should not eat them.

People with weak spleen and stomach should not eat sea cucumbers, but they can selectively take sea cucumber health products. In particular, patients with acute enteritis, bacillary dysentery, cold, cough, asthma, loose stools, hemorrhage with blood stasis, and dampness obstruction should avoid eating sea cucumbers.

Patients with colds and diarrhea should not eat sea cucumbers temporarily. Experts remind that sea cucumbers are slippery and not suitable for large amounts of consumption for those who often have diarrhea. Because live sea cucumbers may carry bacteria and even viruses, raw sea cucumber consumption is more likely to cause diarrhea, and its nutritional value is not easily absorbed by the human body.