Diet for hepatitis patients

  The other day I met a patient with hepatitis who, during treatment, had stomach and abdominal distention, nausea and vomiting, and did not want to eat anything. The family was very worried about this. I believe that many hepatitis patients have experienced this problem. In response to this, I would like to give you a few suggestions to help you recover.  Hepatitis, the most common of which is viral hepatitis, in the process of disease recovery, diet and nutrition have a direct impact on the treatment and healing of hepatitis, because reasonable and appropriate nutrition can provide the material basis for the recovery of damaged liver cells, and increase the body’s immunity, thereby promoting healing and preventing relapse. But hepatitis is a gastrointestinal infectious disease, many patients have a poor appetite, how to arrange the patient’s diet, which does have a lot of learning.  A, dishes should be light, food advocate eight full unclean or uncontrolled diet is one of the important causes of hepatitis. Hepatitis patients have more or less digestive tract function problems, so the general principle of diet for hepatitis patients should be nutritious, light, easy to digest. In the acute period, a semi-liquid diet can be given, soft food, the recovery period can be given a general diet and as far as possible to meet the patient’s taste, to ensure the supply of nutrients and physical exertion, the main vegetarian diet, fresh vegetables, fruits should always eat, for meat food generally do not have to be strictly limited, as long as the patient loves to eat, taste delicious and will not lead to bloating diarrhea can. In addition, when eating meals should not eat too much, the Ming Dynasty “Shou Shi Bao Yuan” in the health care song “food only half full without both taste”, so a small number of meals, advocate eating only eight full, for hepatitis patients, can reduce the burden on the liver, improve the symptoms is very good.  In the past, it was advocated that hepatitis should eat more sweets in order to supplement the insufficient supply of glycogen due to liver cell damage, but practice has shown that too many sweets may increase the burden on the liver, aggravating symptoms such as flatulence and acid reflux, affecting liver function leading to obesity, and even fatty liver, diabetes and other complications. However, it is also necessary to supplement the right amount of sugar. Insufficient supply of calories will increase the consumption of protein in the body, which is not conducive to the recovery and regeneration of liver cells. Generally speaking, if you can ensure two or two staple foods (rice, noodles, etc.) at each meal, you do not need to supplement sugar specifically. Of course, the amount of food consumed should be adjusted according to the patient’s specific condition and physical condition and activity level. In addition, hepatitis patients bile synthesis and secretion are reduced for normal people, digestion and absorption of fat function is weakened, eat greasy food easy diarrhea, but completely without oil dishes affect appetite, so the right amount of vegetable oil is necessary.  Third, an adequate amount of vitamins, protein can not be missing Vitamins are closely related to the recovery of liver disease. Studies have found that a variety of vitamins are directly involved in the complex metabolic reactions of the liver. In patients with impaired liver function, impaired absorption of vitamins can lead to a lack of essential vitamins C, B, E, A, K, etc. Therefore, ensuring an adequate amount of vitamins in food is beneficial to the repair of liver cells and can enhance detoxification. Green vegetables in daily food, as well as tomatoes, carrots and animal liver contain a large amount of vitamins and should be eaten in appropriate quantities. Besides, the protein decomposition in the liver of hepatitis patients is accelerated, and in serious cases, the enzyme activity is abnormal and the protein metabolism is disordered. So enough high quality protein should be consumed. Generally speaking, milk proteins produce the least ammonia and are high-quality proteins, which can be eaten by hepatitis patients.  Fourth, barbecue when taboo, alcohol injury to the liver For barbecue food although it looks beautiful, smells good, eat fresh, but not easy to digest, and in the process of barbecue due to smoking may produce some carcinogenic substances, for poor digestion of hepatitis patients, should pay attention to the taboo. In addition, the damage of wine to the liver is a cliché, but in the banquet, a few compliments, even liver disease patients can hardly resist the temptation of wine, in a time of wine and ears, the liver can suffer, or relapse of old disease, or aggravated, or even cirrhosis of the liver bleeding, liver cancer death. Some people have systematically observed alcoholics for 5-10 years and confirmed that alcoholism can cause continuous liver damage, i.e. subclinical changes, abnormal liver function, fatty liver, hepatitis, liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, etc. Therefore, if you are a patient with liver disease, the first thing you should do for your health is to stop drinking alcohol, even beer and wine.