Precautions for patients with liver disease need to let you know that not only medication, is important, but a proper diet is also important. In the treatment of liver disease, it is important to understand the damage to the liver and whether the medication is right for the patient. According to incomplete statistics, there are at least two hundred kinds of western drugs that can cause different degrees of liver damage. Not only medication, but also a scientific and reasonable diet is the key to ensuring the recovery of liver disease patients. Patients with liver disease should eat less or no sodium-containing foods, especially alkaline buns, and follow a reasonable intake of protein and vitamin supplements and other dietary principles.
A scientific and reasonable diet is the key to ensure the recovery of liver disease patients.
Reasonable diet and lifestyle habits, you need to pay attention to the following points.
1. Avoid drinking alcohol.
90% of alcohol to be metabolized in the liver, alcohol can make the normal enzyme system of liver cells is disturbed and destroyed, so direct damage to liver cells, so that liver cell necrosis. Patients suffering from acute or chronic active hepatitis, even if a small amount of alcohol, will make the disease repeated or change.
2, avoid smoking.
Smoke contains a variety of toxic substances, can damage liver function, inhibit liver cell regeneration and repair, so patients with liver disease must quit smoking.
3, avoid spicy, moldy food.
Spicy food (containing chili pepper, pepper, ginger, pepper food) is easy to cause the digestive tract wet heat, wet heat, liver and gallbladder Qi disorder, digestive function is weakened. Therefore, spicy food should be avoided. Forbidden to eat barbecue, fried, pickled, smoked, waxed products, forbidden to eat beef, mutton, dog meat, crabs, shrimp, animal offal, animal fat.
4, avoid the abuse of hormones and antibiotics.
Forbidden to take drugs that are damaging to the liver “is medicine three points of poison”, any drug can be damaging to the liver and kidneys, liver disease patients must be under the correct guidance of doctors, reasonable use of drugs.
5. Avoid indiscriminate use of supplements.
Dietary balance is the basic condition to maintain good health, such as improper tonic, dysfunction of the internal organs, break the balance, will affect health.
6, avoid excessive consumption of protein diet.
For patients with severe hepatitis, due to edema of the gastric mucosa, small intestine villi thickened and shortened, bile secretion dysregulation, etc., so that people digestion and absorption function is reduced. If you eat too many eggs, turtle, lean meat and other high-protein food, will cause indigestion and abdominal distension and other diseases.
7, avoid high copper diet.
Liver insufficiency can not well regulate the balance of copper in the body, and copper is easy to accumulate in the liver. Studies have shown that the storage of copper in the liver of patients with liver disease is 5-10 times higher than normal, and the copper content in the liver of patients suffering from biliary cirrhosis is 60-80 times higher than normal. Too much copper in the liver can lead to liver cell necrosis, and at the same time, too much copper in the body can cause renal insufficiency. Therefore, patients with liver disease should eat less jellyfish, squid, shrimp, snails and other foods that contain more copper.
8, avoid irregularities in life.
”Three parts treatment seven parts nourishment”, so adequate sleep, reasonable nutrition, regular life, adhere to the morning exercise every day, the combination of work and rest is very important. Ensure adequate rest and sleep, prohibit heavy physical labor during treatment, prohibit sports such as basketball, soccer, strenuous running, swimming, etc.
At least 8-10 hours of sleep every day, go to bed before 10 pm, and 1-2 hours of lunch break at noon. Severe hepatitis requires absolute bed rest so that the liver gets sufficient blood supply to promote liver function recovery, liver cell regeneration and repair. Enhance your immunity and resistance to disease.