General knowledge: eight contraindications exist for liver disease

  1, avoid alcohol: the liver is the most important organ of alcohol metabolism in the body, alcohol in ethanol and its metabolites acetaldehyde, acetic acid, etc. can make liver cell degeneration and necrosis, causing alcoholic liver disease, and even acute liver damage.  2, avoid smoking: smoke contains a variety of toxic substances, can damage liver cells, and inhibit liver cell regeneration and repair. Therefore, patients with liver disease must quit smoking.  3, avoid processed foods: canned and bottled beverages and foods often include preservatives, which are more or less toxic to the liver, and how long these foods are stored, not fresh, so they are not suitable for patients with liver disease. Liver disease patients are in principle given easy to digest food, can eat more rich in protein, vitamins, carbohydrates and other liver-friendly food, like beans, fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, meat, etc., these foods can not only supplement the nutrients required by the body, but also conducive to the repair of the patient’s liver.  4, avoid fatigue: liver disease patients often have digestive malfunction, nutritional disorders, so they feel tired and weak, too much fatigue will increase the body’s energy consumption, aggravating the disease, so more rest is the key to cure.  5, avoid emotional discomfort: liver disease patients are prone to irritability and anger, anger will hurt the liver. The emotional changes of anger, will stimulate the body to stress reactions, such as the secretion of adrenaline caused by anger, stimulating liver cells to make the liver cells in the secretion of transaminases to the serum, causing a person’s transaminases to rise. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine: the liver is the main organ of drainage, to regulate the mood, the mood activity is normal, then the normal operation of qi and blood. If you are depressed, depressed temperament, the liver’s drainage is not enough, and there is dysesthesia, abdominal distension, good too; if irritable and irritable, the liver’s drainage is too much, and there is redness, dizziness and headache.  6, avoid irregularity in life: seven out of ten diseases, so adequate sleep, reasonable nutrition, regular life, adhere to the morning exercise every day, the combination of work and rest is very important.  7, avoid the abuse of hormones, antibiotics, cold medicine, etc.: hormones, antibiotics, cold medicine and other drugs have damage to the liver and kidneys, liver disease patients should be under the correct guidance of doctors, reasonable use of drugs, so as not to increase the burden on the liver.  8, do not seek treatment: liver disease patients must go to the regular liver disease specialist to seek treatment, do not believe in exaggerated propaganda, not to mention the disease to seek treatment, so as not to delay the timing of treatment and the correct treatment, so that the condition aggravates or even worsens.