The diet of liver cancer patients should be diversified, pay attention to meal matching, balanced diet, color, aroma and taste to promote appetite, and patients should eat more fresh vegetables, and half of them should be green leafy vegetables. To maintain the normal weight level.
Patients with advanced liver cancer have extremely poor digestive ability and are not only prone to gastrointestinal symptoms such as anorexia, nausea, bloating and vomiting, but also more prone to complications such as malnutrition, hypoproteinemia and low resistance, so patients with advanced liver cancer should enhance daily dietary care to improve their quality of life. And low-fat diet can reduce nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension and other symptoms of liver cancer patients. In addition, increase the calorie of the diet and eat low-fat and sweet foods that can be easily digested and absorbed, such as honey, royal jelly. Sucrose as well as vegetable oil and cream, etc. Liver cancer patients should eat more protein-rich food, especially high-quality protein, such as lean meat, eggs, beans and milk, to prevent the decrease of albumin.
Patients with combined ascites should limit sodium intake and give low-salt or salt-free diet. In order to prevent the occurrence of serious complications such as gastrointestinal bleeding and hepatic encephalopathy, the patient should be highly nutritious, but also eat less and more meals, with the appropriate speed of warm and cold, soft and easy to digest, light diet, and should also avoid spicy and stimulating, fried, fried, hard food, can try to increase the amount of food and the number of times the patient eats. To note: Patients should avoid fishy, greasy, spicy food, and abstain from smoking and alcohol. When the liver function is not good, the intake of animal protein should be controlled, so as not to induce hepatic encephalopathy by excessive protein intake. Specific requirements are as follows
1.Balanced diet: patients with liver cancer consume a lot, so it is necessary to ensure sufficient nutrition. The simplest way to measure the nutritional status of patients is whether they can maintain their body weight. To maintain normal weight, the best way is to maintain a balanced diet, which requires patients to eat more fresh vegetables, and half of them should be green leafy vegetables.
2.Fat and protein: High-fat diet will affect and aggravate the disease, while low-fat diet can reduce nausea, bloating, vomiting and other symptoms of liver cancer patients. Liver cancer patients have poor appetite and low food intake. If there is no sufficient amount of balanced diet, it is necessary to increase the calorie of diet and eat fat and sweet food that can be easily digested and absorbed, such as honey, royal jelly. Cane sugar as well as vegetable oil and cream, etc. Patients with liver cancer should eat more food containing a lot of protein, especially high-quality protein, such as lean meat, beans, milk and eggs, in order to prevent the decrease of albumin. However, in the late stage of liver cancer, when liver function is not good, protein intake should be controlled so as not to induce hepatic encephalopathy by excessive protein intake.
3.Vitamins: Vitamin A, C, K, E, etc. have certain auxiliary anti-tumor effects. Vitamin C mainly exists in fresh vegetables and fruits. Carotene can be converted into vitamin A after entering the body, so liver cancer patients should eat more animal liver, cauliflower, carrot, fig, yellow flower lei, cabbage, date, etc. They should also eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, such as radish, bamboo shoots, asparagus, apple, pumpkin, kiwi and umeboshi, etc.
4, inorganic salts: that is, minerals. Nutritionists divide inorganic salts into two categories: macronutrients, such as calcium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, iron, etc.; trace elements, such as selenium, manganese, germanium, iodine, zinc and copper. Scientists have found that minerals such as selenium, iron, magnesium, magnesium and copper have anti-cancer effects. Liver cancer patients should eat more foods containing trace elements with anti-cancer effect, such as garlic, shiitake mushroom, sea fish, asparagus, yam, pumpkin, reishi, kelp, kidney, as well as ginseng, seaweed, Chinese cabbage and animal’s liver, egg yolk, seaweed, clam, whole wheat pasta, beans, nuts, Chinese cabbage, brown rice, corn, wolfberry, etc.
5.After liver cancer surgery or intervention, patients are mostly weak, limbs are sore and weak, and sweating should be given priority to benefit qi and nourish blood. Carp soup, black chicken soup, ginseng tea, cinnamon, silver fungus and turtle can be consumed, and hard and cold food should be avoided.
In addition to increasing nutrition, water with American ginseng or white ginseng should be used to enhance the functions of organs.
Diet for liver cancer patients should
1.Eat more foods with soft and anti-liver cancer effects, such as adzuki bean, barley, jujube, wakame, sea artemisia, kelp, ark, sea eel, sea turtle, loach, etc.
2, eat more food with liver protective effect: turtle, snapper, ark, oyster, mulberry, thistle, mushroom, mushroom, knife beans, honey, etc.
3, ascites eat red beans, quail eggs, kelp, green crab, clams, black fish, carp, crucian carp, duck meat, etc.
4, jaundice eat horseshoe crab, carp, pangasius, loach, crab, clam, snail, sweet potato, wild rice, water chestnut, golden needle, orange cake, kumquat, etc.
5, bleeding tendency to eat shellfish, orange, sea turtle, oyster, jellyfish, sea cucumber, squid, scallop, umeboshi, persimmon, malanto, shepherd’s purse, etc.
6, liver pain eat kumquat, orange cake, Buddha’s hand, plum, hawthorn, cichlid, cucumber, etc.
7.Liver coma tend to eat knife beans, barley, burdock, mussels, seahorse, etc.
Diet taboos for liver cancer patients.
1. Avoid smoking and alcohol.
2. Avoid overeating, greasy food, salted, smoked, baked and fried food, especially baked and caramelized food.
3, avoid onion, garlic, pepper, chili, cinnamon and other spicy stimulating food.
4, avoid mold, pickled vinegar food, such as moldy peanuts, moldy soybeans, salted fish, pickles, etc.
5, avoid more bones, rough and hard, sticky and indigestible and coarse fiber food.
6, avoid heavy, too acid, too sweet, too salty, too cold, too hot and too much food containing gas.
7, ascites avoid more salt and water food.
8, low coagulation, especially those with bleeding tendency and after intervention, avoid scorpions, centipedes and food and Chinese medicine with blood circulation and blood stasis.