For all amputees wearing a prosthesis, due to the constant friction between your prosthesis and your residual limb, many skin problems can arise. Not only can skin breed issues, food intake can also be an area of concern. Today, we are focusing on food intake... healthy diet options. Ingesting plenty of minerals and vitamins is a good start to building a strong residual limb. The most important thing is boosting the immune system and healing with specific foods.
Today, we start with Vitamin C. Vitamin C is essential to your body. Ahealthy amount of Vitamin C is important because even witha good intake, stress and other factors that burn Vitamin C are to be considered. A healthy dose, especially post surgery is approximately 900 mg daily. This dosage can be satisfied by fruits. Not many people know bellpeppers are a good source as well. This week, push to ingest more bellpeppers and fruits (lemons for citrus, gauva, apples and oranges)!