The liver is the body’s largest digestive and metabolic organ. Liver cancer itself and during anti-cancer treatment may affect liver function and digestive function, etc. Patients may experience nausea, vomiting, abdominal distention, abdominal pain, etc., and often suffer from inadequate intake or impaired digestion and absorption leading to the onset of malnutrition.
So, ensuring proper and good nutrition can promote liver repair, and when patients are supported by adequate nutrition, along with drug therapy, chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery, they can become more resistant to cancer and can improve their tolerance and efficacy of treatment.
So, liver cancer patients must pay more attention to their diet:
Light and nutrient-rich foods
Insufficient nutrition decreases body mass even more, resistance is even less, and the disease will worsen.
Foods with blood-supplementing and hemostatic effects
Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma have poor blood clotting function. The diet of hepatocellular carcinoma patients should include more foods with blood tonic and hemostatic effects, or foods containing vitamin K and vitamin C, such as plums, apples, sea buckthorn, etc., as appropriate.
Choose foods with three highs and one low
The diet of liver cancer patients should pay attention to relatively three highs and one low. The “three highs and one low” refers to high protein, high sugar, high vitamin and low fat, and the “relative” means not to overdo it, for example, more protein is good for the patient, but if a lot of animal protein is consumed in a short period of time, it may lead to hepatic encephalopathy. The company’s main goal is to provide a comprehensive range of products and services to the public.
Soft, cool, and easy to digest is the principle
The diet of liver cancer patients should be soft, cool, and easy to digest. Most liver cancer patients have portal hypertension and esophagogastric fundic varices, especially strict attention should be paid to food should not be rough, hard, too hot to prevent bleeding, you can eat steamed buns, noodles, noodle slices, egg soup, juice, mushrooms, millet porridge, etc.
Quit smoking and alcohol, avoid salty and oily pickles
Because most patients with liver cancer have ascites, it is important to limit salt to prevent the increase of ascites. Be sure to quit smoking and drinking, and avoid greasy, salted, high dietary fiber and irritating foods such as French fries, nuts, barley, corn, bamboo shoots, whole soybeans, and chili peppers. Avoid foods that impair liver function, such as moldy foods, cooked beverages that contain synthetic flavors and colors, etc.