Dietary contraindications and maintenance of patients with chronic hepatitis in brief

We are a hepatitis-prone country, with nearly 8% of adults infected with chronic hepatitis B alone, plus hepatitis C, autoimmune liver disease, and fatty liver, to name just a few, the number of people with liver disease is huge. Due to the lack of basic medical knowledge, often one person is sick, the whole family is nervous. As the saying goes, liver disease “three parts treatment and seven parts maintenance”, chronic hepatitis patients in addition to receiving regular treatment, but also should pay attention to the maintenance of daily life, so chronic hepatitis patients should be how to maintain it? In the end, what are the dietary taboos? First, dietary taboos. Chronic hepatitis patients should pay attention to a reasonable diet to ensure balanced nutrition. Diet should be light, easy to digest, rich in nutritious food as the principle. Eating food should be mixed, should not be partial, because food also has the four qi and five flavors of the bias, their role in the body of the five organs are different, too much of a certain kind of food will inevitably produce adverse effects. Staple food should be rice, noodles and other soft food, you can eat more rice, millet, corn and adzuki beans, such as porridge, steamed bread, side dishes should be more fresh vegetables, fruits, can be appropriate to eat beef, mutton, pork, eggs, animal liver and so on. Daily management, hepatitis patients should pay attention to the taboos are: 1, suitable for adequate protein and lipids: chronic hepatitis patients diet should be adequate protein and lipids to protect liver cells, so that the necrotic cells have been restored and regeneration, and there are enough nutrients into the bloodstream to improve the osmotic pressure of the blood to prevent the emergence of ascites, so that the damaged liver cells to recover and improve liver function. Such as chicken, duck, eggs, milk, lean meat, pig liver and so on. 2, desirable rice bran: rice bran not only contains rich B vitamins, can protect liver, and rice bran fiber can adsorb cancer-causing harmful substances. Because the human body lacks the enzyme which digests the rice bran fiber, therefore adsorbs the harmful substance by the rice bran fiber in the form of stool all to discharge out of the body. Often consumes rice bran, has the very good adsorption and the excretion digestive tract in the harmful substance role. 3, is suitable for grapes: Chinese medicine thinks, grapes sex flat, taste sweet and sour, can replenish qi and blood, strong tendon and bone, benefit liver yin, benefit urination, relieve tendon and blood, warm the stomach and spleen, in addition to the annoyance of quenching thirst. Modern medicine has proved that the polyphenols contained in grapes are natural free radical scavengers with strong antioxidant activity, which can effectively adjust the function of liver cells to resist or reduce the damage caused by free radicals. It also has anti-inflammatory properties, and foreign studies have proved that fresh grapes, grape leaves, and raisins have the ability to resist viruses. In addition raisins are an important source of iron supplementation for hepatitis patients. 4, tea: “Compendium of Materia Medica” recorded that “tea drinking makes people think, less lying, light body, eyesight”, “facilitate urination, to go to the disease heat”. Visible tea for liver disease heat or dampness-heat patients are very good. Green tea has anticoagulant, prevent platelet adhesion aggregation and reduce the decline in white blood cells and other blood stasis effect. For chronic hepatitis with five heart heat, dry and bitter mouth, gums red, swollen and bleeding blood stasis and blood-heat type patients, green tea has an auxiliary therapeutic effect. Drinking tea should also pay attention to the right time, the right amount, generally 1 hour before meals should be suspended within the tea, to prevent dilution of stomach acid, tea on an empty stomach should be less, tea should not be too thick. 5, green leafy vegetables: according to Taiwan researchers found that eating more vegetables can make the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma of chronic hepatitis B patients decrease by 20%. Eat more vegetables can not only supplement the lack of nutrients in patients with liver disease, but also has a smooth stool, promote the discharge of toxins, reduce the intestinal bacterial decomposition of harmful substances produced by the absorption of the role of blood. 6, avoid tobacco and alcohol: drinking alcohol on the liver is very harmful, alcohol in the ethanol and nitrosamines can make liver fat degeneration, causing alcoholic hepatitis, liver fibrosis, liver cancer. Smoke contains a variety of toxic substances, can damage liver function, inhibit liver cell regeneration and repair. Therefore, patients with liver disease must first stay away from tobacco and alcohol. 7, avoid garlic: some people think that garlic can be antibacterial and antiviral, eat more garlic, in fact, this practice is very unfavorable to the patient. Some components of garlic on the stomach, intestinal stimulation, can inhibit the secretion of intestinal digestive juices, affecting the digestion of food, thereby aggravating the nausea and many other symptoms of hepatitis patients. In addition, the volatile components of garlic can make the blood of red blood cells and hemoglobin, etc. lower, and may cause anemia, is not conducive to the treatment of hepatitis. 8, avoid broth: broth, fish soup, chicken soup, etc. to be metabolized in the liver, and broth contains a large number of purine substances and nitrogenous substances. They have to be processed by the liver and become uric acid through the kidneys out of the body. Liver disease patients in the case of low liver function, excessive consumption of such food will only aggravate the burden of the diseased liver, and make it difficult to recover from hepatitis. So patients with liver disease should eat meat food should be boiled in water first, and then pour the soup, because the broth is richest in purine substances. 9, avoid ginger: the main components of ginger is volatile oil, curcumin, resin and starch. Spoiled ginger also contains safrole. Curcumin and safrole can make hepatitis patients liver cell degeneration, necrosis, and interstitial tissue hyperplasia, inflammation infiltration, and make liver malfunction. 10, avoid turtle: hepatitis patients, due to gastric mucosal edema, bile secretion malfunction, its digestion and absorption function is greatly weakened. Turtle is extremely rich in protein, hepatitis patients eat, not only difficult to absorb, but also will increase the burden on the liver, so that the food in the intestinal tract corruption, resulting in abdominal distension, nausea and vomiting, indigestion and other phenomena. Second, adequate rest. Hepatitis patients should go to bed early and get up late, have sufficient rest, and should avoid exertion, staying up late, etc., which will make the condition deteriorate and recur, and is not conducive to the improvement of the patient’s condition. During the day, you should take the initiative to increase the time in bed, because when you are in bed, the blood returning to the liver increases, which is conducive to improving hepatic microcirculation and promoting the recovery of inflammation. When the liver inflammation is active (ALT>80u/L), it is not suitable for physical exercise, and physical labor or long-distance travel should be avoided. Third, regular life. Hepatitis patients should develop good living habits, daily routine should have a certain degree of regularity, do not engage in highly stressful or irregular work, it is best to avoid night shifts. Life should also be arranged to some simple, avoid too much socializing or entertainment, and strive to be simple, may be regular. Fourth, maintain a relaxed mood. Many patients will inevitably appear, nervousness, uneasiness, anxiety, irritability, frustration, depression and other bad moods after learning that they are sick, and they will be lethargic, heavy-hearted, pessimistic and disillusioned in their life and work, believing that they have got incurable diseases, and it is hard for them to escape from liver cirrhosis and liver cancer in the end. Smooth mood is very helpful to the treatment of patients. Fifth, standardize the use of drugs. There are many kinds of medicines for the treatment of hepatitis B. When patients use medicines, they should go to the regular liver hospital to receive examination to see which kind of medicine is suitable for them in the end, and they should never use medicines blindly to avoid aggravating their condition. In short, patients with chronic hepatitis should eat small meals, there should be no feeling of fullness, food to fresh, nutritious, high protein, low fat, easy to digest. Life should be regular, while maintaining an optimistic and positive attitude. You should also have regular checkups to keep abreast of your situation so that you can make timely adjustments and treatments. Do not seek medical advice indiscriminately and treat blindly.