Patients with cirrhosis can eat protein powder, but there are conditions and precautions. If you have compensated cirrhosis, that is, you have not had complications such as ascites or hepatic encephalopathy, when the protein content in your body is low and you cannot take protein from food, you can eat protein powder to supplement your protein intake. However, if you are in the decompensated stage of cirrhosis and have had hepatic encephalopathy, you cannot eat a lot of protein powder because one scoop of protein powder contains about 8g of protein, and if you eat fish, meat, eggs, etc., the daily intake of protein is too much and the increased production of ammonia will exceed the metabolic load of the liver and cause hepatic encephalopathy. In addition, for patients in the decompensated stage of cirrhosis, the liver synthesis function is often very poor, and it is difficult to improve the albumin level in the body by eating protein powder alone.