The diet of a person with liver disease is very important, and here are some basic dietary principles and recommendations:
1. Comprehensive nutrition: Make sure that your diet contains a variety of essential nutrients, including vitamins, fats, carbohydrates, and proteins.
2.Reasonable matching: Three meals a day should be a combination of meat and vegetables to avoid partial eating. Try to choose foods that are easy to digest and nutritious.
3.Control your intake: Eat a variety of foods in moderation and avoid excessive intake of certain nutrients.
4.Limit irritating foods: Reduce or avoid spicy, greasy, fried, barbecued, and other irritating foods that may burden the liver.
5.Abstain from alcohol and smoking: Alcohol has a direct damaging effect on the liver, and patients with liver disease must abstain from alcohol. Tobacco is also harmful to health, and smoking should be quit as much as possible.
6.Choose liver-friendly foods:
High-protein foods: such as lean meat (pig, beef, sheep, chicken, fish), eggs, milk, tofu, etc.
- Fresh vegetables and fruits: such as lentils, spinach, rape, celery, cucumbers, shiitake mushrooms, fungus, hawthorn, apricot meat, sour dates, tomatoes, apples, pears, peaches, bananas, etc. These foods are rich in vitamins and minerals that contribute to liver health.
Acidic foods and edible mushrooms: Moderate consumption of some acidic vegetables and fruits, as well as edible mushrooms such as shiitake mushrooms and fungus, can provide rich polysaccharides and help improve the body's immunity.
7.Dietary precautions in special circumstances:
(1) Patients with liver cirrhosis: The diet should be based on soft, cool and easily digestible foods, such as steamed buns, noodles, egg soup, ham sausages, etc. Avoid foods that are too hard, too hot, fried, and prickly to prevent scratching the fundus and esophageal veins and causing bleeding. Control the intake of high-protein foods to prevent a sharp rise in blood ammonia concentrations that can lead to hepatic coma.
(2) Patients with esophageal or gastric varices: should avoid eating foods that are not easy to digest such as raw and hard, crude fiber, frying, spicy, etc., and should not eat too quickly and too quickly, keep the stool smooth, and prevent bleeding caused by excessive force.
8.Avoid overeating: Maintain a regular diet and avoid eating too much food at one time to avoid increasing the burden on the liver.
9.Individualized diet: Depending on the patient's specific condition and constitution, a personalized diet plan may be required and should be carried out under the guidance of a doctor or dietitian.