Nutritional diet considerations for liver and biliary diseases

  First, to regulate the emotions
  Should maintain emotional stability, avoid mental stimulation, eliminate anxiety, fear psychology, enhance the confidence of treatment.
  Second, reasonable diet
  1.Nutritional diet for hepatobiliary diseases
  (1) Protein requirement: supply 70-80 grams per day, use milk and dairy products to supplement protein, also can be moderate consumption of egg white, fish and lean beef, lean pork, tofu, soy milk, etc.
  (2) Sugar requirement: supply sufficient amount of easily digestible sugar, give more food with high starch content, and increase sucrose, glucose and honey as appropriate. The daily supply of sugar should be 300-400 grams.
  (33) Cholesterol requirement: Limit foods high in bile solids, such as lard, animal offal, egg yolk, shellfish, etc. The daily requirement should not exceed 500 mg.
  (4) Vitamin requirements: supply vitamin A, B group and C, etc. Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits.
  (5) Fluid requirements: supply sufficient fluid to dilute bile and promote the excretion of metabolites and nitrogen residues from the body. In liver disease (especially cirrhosis), water intake should be limited.
  (6) cooking methods: steam, boil, stew, braise, boil method. Avoid frying, deep-frying and stir-frying methods.
(7) Diet meals: use less food and more meals.
  2, liver and gallbladder disease diet life considerations
  In the treatment of patients with liver and gallbladder disease, dietary contraindications have a great impact on the prognosis of the disease, you patients must pay attention to.
  (1) avoid drinking alcohol: alcohol in the nitrosamines can make liver lipid degeneration and carcinogenesis, hepatitis patients should not drip alcohol.
  (2) avoid cold: liver disease patients originally lack of vitality, spleen and stomach weakness, cold food can cause gastrointestinal discomfort, often resulting in enteritis, protein loss with diarrhea, ascites and increased abdominal water.
  (3) avoid greasy, eggs, soy products: patients with hepatobiliary disease, especially cirrhosis patients are overwhelmingly secondary changes in the gallbladder wall, greasy, eggs, soy products hinder the excretion of bile, so over-eating such food will appear rib pain, bloating, belching aggravated symptoms, so should be eaten as little as possible.
  (4) avoid eating animal offal: animal offal is high in cholesterol, a large intake will increase the burden on the liver, therefore, patients with liver disease should not eat more animal liver.
  (5) avoid salt: patients with liver ascites, salt should be fried before putting into various foods, eat as little as possible, because salt will slow down the regression of ascites.
  (6) avoid the indiscriminate use of tonic: dietary balance is the basic condition of health, improper tonic will cause recurrence of the disease.
(7) avoid the abuse of chemical drugs: chemical drugs have damage to the liver and stomach, hepatitis patients must be under the guidance of a doctor reasonable use of drugs.
  (8) avoid smoking: tobacco contains a variety of harmful substances, can damage the liver function, therefore, hepatitis patients must quit smoking
  Third, the regularity of living
  Patients with liver and gallbladder disease must pay attention to rest and appropriate physical exercise. Seriously ill people to bed rest, avoid irregular life: as the saying goes: “very sick, seven points of nourishment”, sufficient sleep, reasonable nutrition, regular life is vital to the recovery of liver and gallbladder patients.