For friends suffering from cirrhosis, especially those who have had ascites, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, swelling and low albumin, doctors often repeatedly advise “must eat less salt”, but some patients still do not think so and make the disease progress! The following is to explain the reason, please strictly limit salt: 1, sodium chloride is an important reason to keep water in the body. The higher the sodium content in the body, the more water stays in our body, so that the chances of edema, ascites and gastrointestinal bleeding are greatly increased. 2, patients with cirrhosis have significantly reduced liver function reserves, synthesized albumin is reduced, water and salt easily expose blood vessels into the abdominal cavity and subcutaneous cause swelling and ascites. 3, the liver detoxification ability is poor, so that the body appears endocrine disorders, etc., too much salt and water is not easy to excrete out of the body. Ascites and gastrointestinal bleeding are more likely to occur. Similarly, if we can eat as little salt as possible, ascites can be reduced or even a small amount of ascites for a short time can disappear on its own without medication; the degree of esophagogastric fundic varices will gradually reduce and make the risk of bleeding significantly reduced. Also if there is no hepatic encephalopathy emphasize a high protein, high vitamin, high mineral diet with small and frequent meals, chewing and eating slowly.