Not long ago, one of my patients with hepatomegaly, due to long-term chronic liver failure, complicated by infections, and eventually died. The patient was only 29 years old, from the onset of the disease to the time of death is just less than 10 months, the good years, but hastily left, leaving less than 2 years old infant son, saddening. Carefully asked the patient before the onset of the situation, the trigger is actually peanuts! It turned out that the patient in the month before the onset of the disease, the family peanut harvest, every day at home to eat peanuts, each time to eat about half a catty. Chen Li, Department of Hepatology, Mengchao Hepatobiliary Hospital, Fujian Medical University, recalled another patient admitted 2 years ago with hepatomegaly, aged 6 years old, who was already suffering from severe hepatic failure at the time of the onset of the disease, accompanied by hemolysis and infection. Carefully inquire about the medical history, she especially like to eat shrimp, before the onset of a person’s father every day to buy her shrimp to eat, but did not expect to eat shrimp because of excessive but ultimately killed. Why can’t patients with hepatomegaly eat a lot of peanuts and shrimp? The first thing to do is to start with the disease itself. Hepatomegaly is a rare hereditary liver disease caused by a defect in the gene for a protein that transports copper ions from liver cells. As copper is not excreted in a timely manner, large amounts of copper ions accumulate in the liver cells, causing degeneration and necrosis of the liver cells, further liver fibrosis, and ultimately cirrhosis and liver failure. In addition to the deposition of copper ions in the liver, copper ions can also be deposited in the brain tissue, kidneys, bones, heart, and a large amount of copper ions released within a short period of time can also cause destruction of red blood cells, i.e. hemolysis. When a large amount of copper-containing food is ingested, liver failure can be induced. Therefore, for patients with hepatomegaly, it is necessary to limit the intake of copper in food and increase the excretion of copper in order to control the development of the disease. For patients with hepatomegaly, what foods should not be eaten? 1. nuts: including peanuts, walnuts, pistachios, pistachios, melon seeds, etc. 2. shellfish: including shrimps, crabs, clams, mussels, scallops, etc. 3. animal offal: including pork liver, pork loin, intestines, etc. 4. mushrooms and fungi 5. legumes, potatoes: soybeans, groundnuts, potatoes, etc. 6. certain greens: such as spinach, squash, etc. 7. chocolate What are the foods that are safe for consumption? C refined white rice, refined noodles, fresh green vegetables, apples, peaches, pears, fish, poultry, pork and beef, milk Last but not least, it should be emphasized that hepatomegaly can be cured by liver transplantation. If liver failure has already occurred, the only way is to have a liver transplant as early as possible; medical treatment is ineffective.