Avoidance of food for hepatitis B patients

In the clinic, there are always hepatitis patients who ask, “What are the dietary restrictions? Can I eat beef, goose, rooster, carp, shrimp, seafood, pig liver and other ‘hairy’ things?” The scientific attitude should be that hepatitis B patients should not have too many dietary contraindications, except for those with special instructions from the attending TCM physician. Excessive taboos, long-term down not only to go to the oral, but also due to a great loss of appetite caused by loss of appetite, resulting in malnutrition, is extremely detrimental to liver disease. But indeed some things are not suitable for hepatitis patients, hepatitis patients include: First, avoid alcohol. Chinese medicine believes that wine can help wet heat, damage the spleen and liver. If you drink too much wine, breeding dampness and heat, jaundice may occur, called “wine jaundice” in Chinese medicine. When suffering from hepatitis, you should absolutely avoid alcohol, even after the hepatitis is cured, it is also better not to drink alcohol. Second, avoid sweet, fatty, thick and greasy. The Chinese medicine believes that the sweet can help wet, sweet can lead to the full. Fatty and greasy things are not easy to digest and can hinder the spleen’s movement and breed damp heat. Liver disease itself has damp-heat, poor digestive function or even combined with biliary or digestive complications, then do not pay attention and eat more sweet, fatty and greasy, will make damp-heat aggravated, digestive disorders, and even fatty liver, cholesterol, obesity, diabetes and other adverse consequences. So slow liver patients advocate a low-fat diet. Third, Chinese medicine believes that the main cause of acute hepatitis and chronic hepatitis attack is damp heat. Therefore, avoid spicy fried and other hot food. Spicy food can generate heat and fire, consume Yin and hurt blood. Clinically, it is not uncommon to see patients who have eaten spicy food and caused fire and bleeding to aggravate their symptoms. Fourth, avoid not fresh or toxic food. Chronic hepatitis B patients with poor liver detoxification, consumption of non-fresh or toxic food, not only can cause gastrointestinal symptoms, the recovery of liver disease is extremely unfavorable, and can even cause relapse, aggravation. Canned foods contain preservatives such as benzoic acid, which is obviously not good for liver disease patients to eat.