What do people with cirrhosis need to pay attention to in their daily lives?

  Cirrhosis often brings great danger to patients, and if the disease is not well controlled, it will not only deteriorate, but also cause some fatal complications and other conditions, which seriously threaten the life and safety of patients. In daily life, patients with cirrhosis should not only do to reduce the burden on the liver, but also pay attention to good daily care.  So what should cirrhosis patients pay attention to in their daily care? The following tells you a few life tips: 1, the following symptoms need to promptly seek medical attention once the patient appears such as poor physical strength, poor appetite, abdominal distension, yellow staining of the skin and sclera, bleeding gums or the discovery of splenomegaly and other symptoms, we recommend that you go to the regular hospital gastroenterology or hepatology department for further examination. These tests are liver function, blood routine, abdominal ultrasound, CT, liver fibrosis index, etc., which are adopted according to the doctor’s recommendation.  2, avoid eating food and drugs that are damaging to the liver patients should try not to drink alcohol, a large amount of alcohol is prone to induce upper gastrointestinal bleeding and hepatic encephalopathy, although abstaining from alcohol can not all make cirrhosis produce reversal, but can delay the disease. At the same time, drugs that are likely to cause liver damage, such as: sedative hypnotics, antipyretic analgesics, etc., should also be avoided as far as possible.  3, adjust the diet structure diet is generally high in calories, high protein, multivitamin, easy to digest. When the precursor of hepatic encephalopathy appears, the protein intake should be limited; when ascites appears, the salt intake should be limited; avoid eating too rough or hard food; for esophageal – fundic varices, also pay attention to not being too full, lifting heavy objects, etc., so as not to increase abdominal pressure, portal pressure and aggravate food reflux.  4, exercise the body every day adhere to the appropriate amount of walking, walking time according to personal physical condition, to develop a regular habit of life. You can gradually increase the amount of exercise, in order not to cause fatigue; business trips, travel, etc. should be cautious, should be combined with their own physical condition, to avoid aggravating the disease because of the boat. Patients in the compensated period should reduce the time and amount of exercise, and can engage in light work; patients in the decompensated period should mainly rest in bed.  5.Follow the doctor’s instructions and take the medication strictly, do not increase or decrease the medication by yourself.  6, regular defecation to develop good bowel habits, to achieve regular defecation, to avoid constipation caused by high intra-abdominal pressure caused by hepatic portal vein bleeding.  7, good mental state to maintain a happy mood, according to the weather changes in a timely manner to increase or decrease clothing, to avoid colds.